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Total Eclipse Of The Heart 
Supplies needed: Paint Shop Pro 8, 9, 10 Animation Shop Vanderlee UnPlugged-X Eye Candy 4000 Tube of your choice. A Background scenery of your choice Preset Heart Shape Make you install the preset shape and filters before you begin. 1. Open a new canvas, color black,size: 550 X 400 2. Duplicate you tube and close out the original one, add a new raster Layer. 3. Now go to selections ~ select all,add a new raster, now copy your background image and paste it into selection. 4. Now you may need to resize tour tube to fit your canvas. Copy and paste your tube onto your canvas as a new layer And move it over to one side. 5. Now grab your preset shape tool and select your heart shape,create it as a vector, this will help you resize it if needed, now make a heart have your foreground null and your background black. Make sure that you don't make it to large, size it like it's the sun in the sky, remember we are going to be making an eclipse. 6. Now convert it as a raster layer and duplicate it, hide the duplicate layer, and highlight the non hidden heart layer. Now grab your flood fill tool, and I selected the red-orange-yellow gradient, And flood fill the heart. 7. Now, highlight your background layer it should be your second layer on your layer pallet, add a new raster layer. Go to effects, Vanderlee ~ unplugged~ Jalusi, These are the settings that I used: Blind Amount: 7 Blind Opening: 80 Color ( chose a color that matches your tube/tag) Blind Brightness: 30 Wire Density: 75 Wire Width: 12 Wire Brightness:39 Wire offset: 73 Transparency:0 8. Now highlight your tube layer, and add a new raster layer, now place your watermark and your text on this layer. Now resize your canvas, I resized mine to 364 X 265 pixels (all layers checked) 9. Once again highlight your background layer and lower the opacity to about 75 10. Now hide your blind layer, and unhide the duplicate heart layer, the one that you left black, and select your mover tool, move the heart to the side of your canvas so only half of it is showing, Unhide your blind layer... Right click and copy merged 11. Now over to Animation Shop.. Right click and paste as a new animation. 12. Back to PSP, click your undo button once, now move the heart towards the other one just a small amount, we are going to gradually move it towards the other one. Unhide your blind layer... Right click and copy merged 13.now over to Animation Shop.. Right click and paste after current frame. 14. Repeat step 12 and 13. Several times, when you get the black heart over to the other one, activate your background layer, and lower the opacity some, We want to give the tag the effect of a solar eclipse, where it gets darker out as the moon covers the sun. Add this step until the black heart covers the other one. 15. Once the black heart covers the yellow/orange one, highlight the yellow/orange heart layer on your layer pallet, now go to effects ~ EC4 ~ gradient glow ~ click on the color tab, and select thin.... I used the color #f7b70d 16. Now if you already lowered the opacity of your background layer, unhide the blind layer and copy merge and paste like before over to AS. 17. Now you should be over in AS, now go to edit select all 18. Now click on animation ~ frame properties ~ and set it to 30. Now click on your last frame, and go to animation frame properties ~ and change it to 120 Now animate it, save it and your done! ©Sweet Angels Designs written by Kim on 5-01-06 |
