Mask and Noise Animation
Open
a 400x400 transparent image
Tools / flood fill
Material palette choose white
Flood fill the layer white
Click the pan tool to deselect flood fill
Layers / load/save mask, load mask from disk settings: mask polar-checker-better
/source luminance checked / fit to canvas checked / invert
trans checked / hide all mask
checked / load
Layers/
merge group
Selections/ select all /float and defloat/ you will notice the uneven lines
Selections / modify / remove specks and holes settings: remove specks checked / 50 x 1
Pixels ok
Right
click choose copy
Move into a space and paste as new image
Close of the group raster now and when a box opens click no
File /new 400x400 transparent image
Right click on the mask image and choose copy
Right click on the new transparent image and paste as new layer
Close of the mask layer image layer leaving you with 2 layers in the layer palette bottom is
blank top is the mask image
The reason we did this was to clean up the edges of the mask before we begin
Layer palete delete the bottom blank layer
Selections /float and defloat choose a nice gradient in the material palette use your own
settings
Flood fill the floating mask shapes and deselect flood fill using pan leave the shapes floating
Selections / modify / contract by 3 ok
Layer
palette duplicate until you have 3 then selections / invert
Activate the top layer adjust /add /remove noise / add noise settings : random checked
/monochrome ticked / 50%
X
out the top layer active the middle layer /add /remove noise / add noise
settings : random
checked /monochrome ticked 60% x out middle layer
Activate bottom /add /remove noise / add noise settings : random checked /monochrome
ticked / 70%
Activate top layer right click and rename n1, activate middle rename n2 and activate bottom
rename n3
Activate n1 right click and add a new layer layers / arrange /send to bottom keep active
Selections / select all
Open a background copy and paste Into selection
Selections
/ select none
Layer palette right click on the background bottom layer and duplicate until you have 3 x out all
layers
Activate n1 and unx and unx first one of your background layers and merge visible x out merged
Activate n2 and unx and unx the next one of your background layers and merge visible x out
merged
Activate n3 and unx and unx the last of your background layers and merge visible unx all
merged
Open a tube
Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto the first merged use deform tool to position
Click pan
Adjust
/Sharpness / sharpen
If you like u can rename the merged layers to make it easier for yourself
for example you could
call them m1 ,m2 ,m3
Right click on the tube and duplicate until you have 3 rename them all starting with first tube t1,
second t2 and 3rd t3 then x out all layers
Activate t1 unx and unx first merged or m1 if you renamed them then layers/ merge visible x out
merged
Active t2 unx and unx next layer or m2 then layers/ merge visible x out merged
Activate t3 unx and unx last merged or m3 then layers merge visible un x all merged
Go back to the tube and activate the copyright and copy / then paste as a new layer on the first
merged
right click on copyright and use deform tool to position and deactive deform tool
duplicate until you have 3 like we did before rename them all using cr1 ,cr2 ,cr3 do the same
with your watermark rename all 3 watermarks wm1 ,wm2 ,wm3 x
out all layers
Now
activate first layer and we want to unx the wm1, cr1 ,and first merged and
merge visible x
out merged activate next layer unx wm2 ,cr2 ,and next merged
and merge visible x out merged
now activate the last of the 3 remaining which have not been merged and unx them all and
merge visible
Un x all merged all that remains is the name
Click
on the text tool big A settings :vector , direction first , font any ,size any
, sw 1
Material palette choose your colour in both boxes write your name and apply
Layer palette right click on vector convert to raster layer duplicate until you have 3 x out all
layers
Un x the first writing and the first merged merge visible x out merged
As before couple them together the merged and writing and merge visible until you have 3
merged layers remaining.
Unx
all merged file and save as give name and save type as animation shop psp or
psp 7 format
Open animation shop
Open
your saved image in animation shop
click on the animate icon to make sure it
works click on the same icon to stop it
Animating
Edit
select all / file and save as give name save type as GIF click next / next
until
it
is saved
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Updated on Wednesday 15 February 2012
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