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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 : none

Font used: Carpenter

Tube of choice: I'm using "Courtney" by Jose A Cano.

Scrap Kit : I'm using "Courtney" by Lizquis Scraps.

Animation: SimoneAni469

Mask: 0139  HERE

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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 Courtney_frame2. Duplicate and close original. Re-size by 80%, all layers UN-checked.

Now change your canvas size to 700 x 700.

Using your magic wand, feather set to 0, click inside your frame. Go to Selections, expand, by 10.

Copy and paste a close up of your tube as a new layer. Move down below the frame.

Go to Selections, Invert and hit delete on your keyboard.

If there's any space showing behind your close-up, copy and paste a paper, move it below your close-up and delete.

You can De-select.

Duplicate your close up. On the original close up layer, apply blur, Gaussian Blur of 3. On duplicate layer, change blend mode to soft light. Merge these two together. Now change blend mode to Multiply.

Duplicate your frame. Top frame layer, change blend mode to Multiply.

Add drop shadow to this frame:

V:  2

H:  5

Opacity:  64

Blur:  13

Color:  black

Merge all visible.

Copy and paste Courtney_Grass as a new layer. Move to the left and bottom of frame layer.

Copy and paste Courtney_radio as a new layer. Re-size by 50% and move to the left side.

Copy and paste Courtney_Tree as a new layer. Place to the right of frame and behind the car.

C/P sparkles1 as a new layer. Place more to the left and over the frame.

C/P tube as a new layer. Mirror and re-size by 80%.  Delete extra at the bottom of tube using your selection tool set to rectangle and feather set to 25. Select area from crotch to below. Delete.

Copy and paste Courtney_dog as a new layer. Re-size by 50% and move to the right side.

Copy and paste Courtney_bag as a new layer. Re-size by 50% and move to the right side beside dog.

Add drop shadow to every layer.

C/P Paper 1 as a new layer. Send to bottom.

Click on any other element to activate that layer. Go to Selections, select all. Activate your paper layer again.

Go to Image, crop to selection. Apply Mask 0139, merge group. Duplicate layer. Add drop shadow.

Merge all visible.

Add artist copyright.

Save as PNG.

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 21 frames.

You can watch the count on the lower right hand side of your screen in AS.

Open SimoneAni469

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.

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 80 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 Wednesday, June 18  2013.