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Lost In The Rain Tutorial |
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All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here. |
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Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial |
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Funhouse - Twister - here |
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DC Special - Rain 4 - here |
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Simple - Diamonds - here |
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FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here |
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Lost In The Rain
Tutorial Open up all the materials and place them in the right places. Font to fonts, gradient to gradients, images to psp file and so on. This tutorial was written for PSP 9. 1. Open a transparent image 640 x 480. 2. Go into your material properties and bring up the materials palette. 3. Flood fill your layer with ww blues plus gradient - image 4 - sbg - gradient sample shows you how it should look. Settings: Angle - 90, Repeats - 6, Style - Radial, check invert, Horizontal - 50, Vertical - 50. 4. Effects - Funhouse - Twister - Settings: Twistencity - 47 5. Effects - DC Special - Rain 4 - Settings: Rain - 100, Wind - 25, Angle - 58, Scatter - 0, Border to Center - 50, Opacity - 100, check fade, Random - check seed. Repeat. Repeat again with these Settings: Rain - 100, Wind - 75, Angle - 110, Scatter - 65, Border to Center - 75, Opacity - 100, check fade, Random - check seed. Repeat. Repeat 1 more time. 6. Layers - merge all 7. Open image 1 - patry - lost in the rain - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the center. Opacity - 70. Blend mode - Luminance (Legacy) 8. Open image 2 - patry - lost in the rain - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the center. Opacity - 100. Blend mode - Luminance (Legacy) 9. Layers - Merge all 10. Image - Add Borders - 2 pixels. - flood fill with image 3 - sbg - gold pattern. 11. Image - Add Borders - 11 pixels - flood fill with image 4 - sbg - gradient sample or with the ww blues plus gradient - same settings as step 3. 12. Effects - Funhouse - Twister - Settings: Twistencity - 47 13. Effects - Simple - Diamonds 14. Image - Add Borders - 2 pixels. - flood fill with image 3 - sbg - gold pattern. 15. Selections - Select all - Selections - Modify - Contract 15 pixels - Selections - invert. 16. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - Settings: Vertical 1, Horizontal 1, Color - Black, Opacity - 84, Blur - 15.00, leave fill interior unchecked. Repeat changing Vertical and Horizontal settings to minus 1. Selections - select none. 17.To add your name go to font - VivaldiD - size 24 - stroke 1 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 4 - horizontal 4 - opacity 100 - blur 7.00 - color black 18. Position your name in the bottom right area where you would like to have it. Effects - FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss - Default settings. 19. Selections - Select all - Selections - Modify - Contract 15 pixels 20. Layers - Duplicate background times two. Your layer palette should now show background, background copy 1 and background copy 2 with an active selection. 21. In your layer palette click on the background layer and open rain template 1. Edit - copy - paste into selection. Repeat paste into selection. 22. In your layer palette click on the background copy 1 layer and open rain template 2. Edit - copy - paste into selection. 23. In your layer palette click on the background copy 2 layer and open rain template 3. Edit - copy - paste into selection. deselect. Open animation shop. 24. Back in PSP, open bottom background layer - leave the 2 copies closed. Edit - Copy merged. 25. In animation shop - Edit - paste as new animation. 26. Back in PSP - Layer palette - close bottom layer - open copy of background layer Edit - copy merged 27. In animation shop - Edit - paste after current frame. 28. Back in PSP - Layer palette - close copy layer - open copy 2 of background layer Edit - copy merged 29. In animation shop - Edit - paste after current frame. 30. In animation shop - Edit select all 31.In animation shop - Animation - Frame properties - change display time to 10 - click okay. 32. In animation shop - File - save as - name your animation - click save This should bring up animation wizard - use settings below. Standard settings selected, level 3 Optimizing for Animated GIF file Optimized output will update the current animation Write minimal frames Use transparency for better compression Collapse identical frames Optimized image will contain 127 colors No local palettes will be used Generate palette by Octree Map colors to palette via error diffusion. All non-visible elements removed except for: - Copyright information 33.You're done. Dream Raindrops Animation Credit http://members.lycos.co.uk/dream312/
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Credits
Dream
Raindrops Animation Credit
Song
Credits
Song
is Smokey Mountain Rain by Ronnie Milsap.
Created May 19, 2006
© Sabrina Buck Graphics 2005 - 2008. All Rights Reserved.