Supplies needed:
Paint Shop Pro 8,9,X or XI
Filters unlimited 2
Supply folder
Animation Shop
Ok Grab your drink, snacks, and so on.. Get
comfortable… ready? Good, let’s get started.
Open the Sunsetmist.pspimage and duplicate it
(Shift+D) and close out the original.
Now flood fill the bottom layer with the
color black.
Now make the sunset layer active on your
layer pallet and set the blend mode to Luminance(L) and merge visible.
Now go to effects – plugins – I.C.Net
Software – filters unlimited – Special effects2 – Filmstrip and click
“apply”
Now grab your cropping tool and crop it so
you just have the center frame.
Now go to image – canvas size and resize your
canvas to W:550 H: 450 centered.
Now move the image to the top of your canvas.
Now add a new raster layer.
Copy the Johnny Depp tube and paste it over
to your canvas and move it to where you want it or use my tag as an example.
Now add your text.
Ok now grab your magic wand tool and make the
blank bottom layer active and hide the tube layer.
Ok now click on the inside of the white up
top of the filmstrip. See Below..
Click on all of them.. top and bottom
Then go to selections – modify – Expand – by
1
Now make the layer above it active. Now set
your foreground color to white and your background color to black
No starting at the second white space flood
fill the top and bottom ones with black. Start with the second bottom one
also.
Now select none.
Now copy merge it. If you are using PSP XI..
Merge visible then you will need save it as a .psp file and name it frame
1. If you are using X or lower, you can paste it over to Animation Shop as a
new image. I put the saved images in a separate folder.
Now on your canvas, click your undo button
once. Now you should have your marching ants back.
Flood fill the first boxes with black and
flood fill the second ones (Bottom and Top) with white. And select none. And
copy merge.. once again if you are using PSP XI you will need to save it and
this time name it frame 2. If you are copy and pasting it over to Animation
Shop, paste it after current frame.
Now repeat the above step until you have made
your way across.
If you are using PSP XI open up Animation
Shop. Now click on the animation wizard and place your frames as directed..
Remember to put them in order!
