Egg Hunt (Animated Tag)

Program used: PSP 9 and Animation Shop

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Egg Hunt by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

Plus my egg mask. It can be downloaded here.

Plugins used: Eye Candy 5 Glass and Perspective Shadow.

* Open af new 400*500 px. canvas. Save! This is now your working canvas.

* Open paper 8_blue. C/p it to the canvas and resize this layer to 17% (SmartSize)

* Open the mask in your PSP. Then go back to your working canvas and right click on the layer in your layers palette. There you can apply the mask directly without saving it to your mask folder.

* Merge the group layer.

* Open and c/p the following embellishments to your canvas:

Cloud 1+2

Flags

The 2 chickens

Grass 1+2

Duplicate one of the grass pieces and mirror it. Then resize all the embellishments to 17%.

I placed everything like this:

* Make sure the flags is your active layer. Then go to your text tool and write 2, 0, 1, 0. Rasterize the text parts.

I used font LD Chicken Scratch size 20 for my numbers.

* Place the numbers on top of the flags like this:

* Make the Egg (/our former mask layer) your active layer, then apply Eye Candy 5 Glass with these settings:

* Add a shadow to all elements. I used Eye Candy 5 Perspective Shadow with these settings:

* Merge All Flatten. Promote background to layer then duplicate it 9 times, so that you have 10 layers.

* Save as a pspimage and close.

Open a new 1200*1200 px. canvas. C/p wordart_egghunt to this. Resize the wordart to 12%. Delete raster 1 (/an empty layer). Duplicate the wordart 9 times, so you have 10 layers in all. Save as a pspimage and close.

Time to open your ANIMATION SHOP.

* First open the wordart canvas. Select all layers. Then go to Apply Image Effect and chose Stained Glass at the drop down menu. Then click on the customize button and apply these settings:

Keep the frames selected.

* Open your tag. Select all the frames and then drag the wordart animation into it. Don´t let go of the wordart until it is placed to your liking. I placed mine at the bottom of the tag.

I changed the Frame Properties to a display time of 15 (/10 is default).

* Save your animation.

Your animated tag is now finished! I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial.

This is my result: