Glamour Girl
Things you will need:
Tube of choice (a close up and normal size)
Glitters or sparkles of choice to animate(the ones i am using are not mine so i can not offer them)
Filters Used:
Foto Frame
VM Extravaganza - Transmission
Tramages - Tow the Line
You can do a google for these filters if you do not have them
Animation Shop (if you wish to animate)
Ok lets get goin!
open up new image 600x250
Pick two colors from your tube and set as foreground/bakcground
Then change the foreground to foreground/background gradient
fill with gradient
Now use your Transmissions filter at default
Then Tow the Line default
lower the opacity of this layer to something you like depending on your color. I lowered mine to 45
Merge Flatten
You might have to play with this a bit to get what you like
take your selection tool and draw out a square
Promote to selection
pick a new color and fill the selection
Copy and paste your close up tube as a new layer
Selections - Invert - hit delete on the keyboard
Change the blend Mode to something you like. i changed mine to Screen
Then changed the opacity to 80
X-Out the background layer and merge visible
Un-X the background
Being on the merged layer, Selections - select all - float - defloat
Use the foto frame filter
Change the width to 10
opacity to 50
Dark with Grey Shadow from the drop down
Hit Ok
Select None
Be on your background layer again
Use your shapes tool, set to vector, and draw out a skinny rectangle in color of choice
draw it so that it goes completely from one side to the other
convert to raster layer
Change the blend mode to Overlay or something you will be happy with.
Copy and paste your normal sized tube, move into place
Type out your word art
Add your name and credits then get ready to animate!
Ok now close off all the layers except for the background, the skinny rectangle, and the close up frame
Edit - copy merge
In Animation Shop (AS) Edit - Paste as New Animation
Open up the glitter dots
There are 7 frames of animation so we need to make our tag have that many frames as well
So having your tag activated, press crtl+L til you have 7 frames
Edit Select All
Back to your glitter dots
Edit Select All
Edit Copy
Back to your tag
Edit paste into selected frame
Move the dots to the side of the close up frame along the frame itself
Now keep doing this until you have both sides of the frame in dots.
Back to the glitter dots
Animation - Rotate - Rotate left or right by 90
Repeat the copy and paste steps for the top and bottom of the frame.
View Animation to see how it looks
Back to PSP
Un-X all the layers that were X-ed
X-Out all the layers that weren't X-ed
Edit Copy Merged
Back to AS
Edit - Paste as New Animation
Ctrl+L til you have 7 frames
Select All
Copy
Be on your tag - Paste Into Selection
Move into place
View animation
When you like it save as gif and your done!
