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Hi everyone! I'm a 52 year old scrap and Paint Shop Pro addict. I've been PSPing since 2004. I love creating and I love sharing. Programs I use: Paint Shop Pro 10 Particle Illusion 3.0 Animation Shop 3.0 CS3 PS 7
Sunday, August 11, 2013

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•••  Supplies needed to complete this tutorial. •••
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Programs: Paint Shop Pro, I'm using version 10. Animation Shop 3.
Plugin : Eye Candy: Gradient Glow for name.
Font used: CarolEtched
Tube of choice: I'm using "Sorceress" by The Hunter from SATC.
Scrap Kit : I'm using "Sorceress" by Bibi's Collection from SATC
Animation: SimoneAni-Sorceress
Mask: none
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Save your tag often. Nothing like working long and hard on a tag and PSP crashes.
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Open a new image 704 x 704, transparent.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Using your selection tool, feature set to 28, surround the legs and delete.
Duplicate your tube. On the bottom tube layer, add gaussian blur of 3.
Merge together.

Copy and paste element 82 as a new layer and re-size by 35%. Make sure you change the dpi to 72.
Position on the right side of tag and behind the tube.

Copy and paste element 81 as a new layer and re-size by 55%. Position behind your tube on the left upper side of tag.

Copy and paste element 89 as a new layer and re-size by 55%. Position in front of your tube on the lower left-center hand side of tag.

Copy and paste element 121 as a new layer and re-size by 70%. Drag down as last layer and position more to the left upper hand side of tag.

Copy and paste element 50 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. Make sure you change the dpi to 72.
Position on the right side of tag in front of tube.

Copy and paste element 57 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. Position on your tube on the left upper hand side of tag.

Copy and paste element 131 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. Position in front of your tube in the lower left hand side of tag.

Copy and paste element 72 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. Mirror and position behind kitty cat on the left side.
Duplicate layer and re-size by 50%.  Position over current leaves to fill it in a bit.
Duplicate and mirror. Position upper right hand side of tag behind the bookcase.

Copy and paste element 18 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. Position in front in the lower right hand side of tag.
Copy and paste element 58 as a new layer and position in front of bookcase.

Copy and paste element 92 as a new layer and re-size by 50%. This fancy book should be between your tube and the cat.
It should also be one the layer above the tree layer in your layers palette.

Add element 86 as a new layer and re-size by 30%. Position in front of book at center.
Add element 67 as a new layer and re-size by 30%. Position in front in between book and wine glass.

Add drop shadow to all your layers.

Now for your castle, I added two  more turrets. So you should have one at top left, one top right and one right beside the one on the right and make it a little higher then the others.

Activate your crop tool. Click on "Snap crop rectangle to: Merged Opaque" . You can either click on the little green arrow to apply or double click on

your tag.

Add artist copyright as your top layer.

To animate:
Go to Selections, select all.
Go to Edit and copy merged. Paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.
Hold your Ctrl key down and repeatedly hit letter L on your keyboard for a total of 15 frames.
You can watch the count on the lower right hand side of your screen in AS.
Open SimoneAni-Sorceress-06
Go to Edit, select all.
Go to Edit, copy.

Activate your tag.
Go to Edit, select all.
Go to Edit, make sure Propagate Paste is selected.
Go to Edit, Paste, paste into selected frames.

Position on your tag and click into place. I placed mine on the right side in her hand.
Delete the first 3 frames. You should now have 12 frames.

Play and save.
Don't forget to add your name.

To save:
Go to File, Save as, enter the name of your file and select the folder to save to.
Now click on Customize:
Under COLORS TAB:
Number of colors: 255 Colors
Create palette by: OPTIMIZED OCTREE
Reduce colors by: Error Diffusion
Under OPTIMIZATIONS TAB:
set a check mark beside the second, third and forth choices. UN-check the 1st and last.
Under PARTIAL TRANSPARENCY:
check Convert pixels less than 92
Yes, blend with this color: change to white #FFFFFF
Click OK. Click Next, next, next, next.
Play your animation.
At times your animation may or will come out terrible. Optimization in Animation Shop is not the greatest.
You can play around will your settings, especially under the Tab: Optimization. I change this setting at times from anywhere between 70 and 100.
Some people add a white background.  To add background, go to Animation: Animation Properties, select Opaque and change color to white.


Hope you enjoyed this tutorial,
Hugs Simone
Please, always direct people to my blog to download my animations.
Do not load to any other download site and don't claim as your own.
Tutorial written by SophisticatSimone aka Lorraine Halle on Sunday August 11,  2013.

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