Mask And Bling Animation
Open a 400 x 400 transparent image.
Material Palette / Color #008000 ok.
Tools / flood fill / fill the layer with the color
click pan.
Layer palette add a new raster layer.
Material palette / color #00da00 ok.
Tools / flood fill / fill the layer with the color
click pan.
Layer palette add a new raster layer.
Material palette / color #8bff8b ok.
Tools / flood fill / fill the layer with the color
click pan.
Layer palette X out middle and bottom layer.
Layers / load save mask / load mask from disk / settings: mask called border / source
luminance checked / fit to canvas checked / invert transparency checked /
hide all mask checked / load.
Layers
/ merge group x out top layer.
Un x middle layer use the same mask and settings then x out and un x bottom layer and
repeat the mask.
Now you should have 3 mask layers.
Un x middle layer and make active / image and mirror / now in the layer palette drag it to
the bottom.
Still active / tools / deform / pull the center node upwards to make it taller
click pan.
Un x top and drag to bottom use deform and pull the center node to make it taller
click pan.
Start
from the top layer / effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / settings: v1 / h1 /
op 60 / b 0
/ black / ok.
Add this drop shadow to all the mask layers.
Open your first tube Elf or one of your own activate tube layer.
Activate the top layer / right click on the tube and choose copy / right click on mask layer
and paste as new raster layer.
Layer Palette drag the tube layer down once.
Deform tool / resize and position tube on the left hand side and move into place
click pan.
Close
original Tube
Add
the same drop shadow only change blur to 8 ok.
Layers / merge / merge visible.
Close of the original tube
Open another tube or my fairy one activate tube layer
Copy
and paste tube as a new raster layer onto merged layer.
Add
the same drop shadow to it.
Deform / move the tube to the bottom right corner make the tube smaller using the corner
node click pan.
Layers / merge down.
Close of the original tube
Open the tube called Pixie Plant or your own and activate the tube layer.
Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto your merged layer.
Add
the same drop shadow to it.
Layer palette drag the tube to the bottom.
Deform / position the tube to the right you might need to resize him a little bit more
smaller then
click pan.
Open
My background or one of your own copy and paste it as a new layer on to the
merged
layer.
Layer palette / drag to bottom.
Lower the opacity of the background to 70/80.
Layers
/ merge / merge visible
Close
your background
Now add the copyright and your watermark and the text of your choice and merge all
flatten.
Adjust
/ Sharpness / sharpen
Close the original back ground tube.
Open
Animation shop
Copy
and paste your image into animation shop.
Right click on your image and choose Duplicate, repeat this until you have 21 frames.
Edit / select all.
Open the Robertablingblintrail8 Animation in Animation Shop.
You will notice 22 frames the first is just black so activate it by clicking on it and right click
and delete.
Edit
/ select all.
Animation
/ Mirror
With
all the Roberta Bling frames still active right click and choose copy.
Right click on your image make sure all the frames are still selected and paste into the
selected frame position it then
left click to set it in place.
Close
of the Roberta Bling frames now.
View
/ Animation to test your Animation works and save as give it a name and save
type as
Gif.
((((((((((((note))))))))))))))
Always
make sure when you are adding onto frames that the amount of frames is the same
and that they are all selected otherwise the animation wont work.
This Tutorial was created and
installed by ©Mally on Saturday 11 August 2006
Updated on Saturday 11 February
2012
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Mally
It may not be reproduced in
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