This Tutorial was written by Pints on the 13th August 2008, any resemblence to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You may not copy this tutorial and take it as your own, not in email lists etc, please direct to my group.
What you do with your finished tag is up to you, you may offer for tags etc - but no money gain.
Most of all I hope you enjoy!
Supplies Needed:-
Paint Shop Pro, any version should work, I used 9.
Animation Shop
Scrapkit called Fall Follies by Ann Cobb
It’s a paid kit
Tube of choice I used the gorjuss work by Suzanne Woolcott
Font of choice I used Vaguely Repulsive.
Animations can be found HERE
Lets go!
When using scrap kits please remember to sharpen when you resize if needed.
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.
Open new canvas 600 x 600 and flood fill white.
Open frame 3 from the kit.
Resize/copy/paste as new layer.
Duplicate.
On the top frame/image/rotate free/12 degrees left.
Merge these two frame layers.
Open paper4
Resize by 20%
New raster layer/fill with this paper, below frame layers.
Using magic wand click inside the frame.
Selection/modify/expand 4/invert
Click on paper layer hit delete.
Select none.
Add your tube.
Add drop shadow.
V&H2
Opacity 50
Blur 5
Colour black.
Duplicate
Drag so you have one tube layer above frame and one just below.
On the top tube layer grab your eraser tool and erase any you don’t want showing.
Using my tag for reference add rest of elements.
Add drop shadows as above.
Add your name, foreground white, width 1
Background #778ec6
Resize all layers by 85%
Add copyright.
Merge all visible.
Edit/copy
Open AS shop
Paste as new animation.
If your using the squirrel, you need to duplicate your tag to make 68 frames.
If your using the hedgehog as well it only has 12 frames.
Edit/select all
Edit/copy
Click on last frame of animation
Edit/paste after current frame.
Keep repeating until you have more than 68 frames.
Then just delete the frames you don’t need until you have 68 frames.
Click on tag
Edit/select all.
Animation/mirror.
Click on squirell
Edit/select all.
Click on hedgehog
Edit/select all.
Drag your squirell onto your tag.
Drag the hedgehog onto your tag.
Easy peasy!
View your animation and when your happy save as gif and your done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and please come back and show us your results.
Hugs Pints.x.