Program used: PSP 9 and Animation Shop.
Level: Intermediate
Supplies: Kit Wild Dayz by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.
Eye Candy 5 Perspective Shadow (optional).
* Open a 600*400 px. canvas. Save.
* Open paper#12 (from kit Wild Dayz). resize to 600 px. using SmartSize. C/p to your new canvas. Close the original without saving.
* Repeat with paper # 12.
* Open frame 01, resize 20%. C/p to the canvas. Close the original without saving.
* Now drag paper 10 so that the tree, dog and sheep can be seen in the frame.
* Then with selection tool (rectangle) select inside the frame, promote (paper 10) to selection. x out the original paper layer. Deselect.
* In your layers palette link the promoted paper layer with the frame layer.
* Go to layer 1. It´s an empty layer! Select the layer with your selection tool (magic wand), then go to Image/Crop To Selection.
* On the next layer (which is the layer with paper 12), add a picture frame with these settings:
I used “edge brush 04″.
* Open Animalsticker 01. Resize 20%. C/p on top of the canvas. Close the original without saving.
* Mirror the bear (/that is the animal sticker). Move to the right.
* Rotate the frame and the promoted paper layer 2 degrees to the left. Move to your liking.
* Add a drop shadow to the bear and the frame.
I used Eye Candy Perspective Shadow with these settings:
* This is what my canvas looks like now:
* I added some text: “Rainy Dayz”.
I used font MonoAlphabeet, size 36- I picked some colors from the canvas.
Convert the text to a raster. Rotate 2 degrees to the left. Add a shadow. Move like this:
* Merge all layers. Delete the x-outed paper layer.
* Duplicate the merged layer 19 times, so that you have 20 layers.
* Save as a pspimage.
* Open the raindrops from the kit. Duplicate, resize 15% and save as a pspimage.
Now we are going to finish this tag in Animation Shop.
* Open the raindrops, you just saved, in Animation Shop.
* Right click, go to Insert Image Effect:
* Chose Rotate Colors in the effect box:
* Open the tag you made in PSP.
* You can see that the frames are all selected in the raindrops animation, since they have a blue frame around them.
* We need to select all the frames in the tag too.
* When that is done, go to the raindrop animation, right click in frame 1, chose COPY.
* Then back to the tag, right click in frame 1, chose Paste/Into Selected Frame.
* You can now move the raindrops to where you want them in your tag. I placed mine to the left. When they are placed to your liking click on your left mouse button, and the animation is now pasted into all your tag frames.
* Save your animation as a gif-file.
Your animated tag is now finished!
I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial! 