Supplies needed:

Paint Shop Pro 8 - XI

Animation Shop

Supply folder 

Font of your choice

I wrote this tutorial using PSP XI, if you are using another version you may need to make some adjustments.

Ok grab your PSPing supplies.. Like your drink, snack, and so on.. lol

I did not use any external filters in this tutorial

All measurements in my tutorials are in pixels.

***When you open the supplies, you will think that the one titled SunsetangelSelection is just a blank canvas, it’s not you will need this later on in this tutorial, so just minimize it.

Ok , let’s get started..

Open a new transparent image 499 X 445 pixels

Set your foreground color to #c6a5a9 and your background color to #c5a1ab

Now flood fill your canvas with your background color.

Now Open a new transparent image 414 X 319, now grab your preset shape tool and  place a rectangle onto this canvas. Now select all,  selections Modify ~ contract: 3 now add a new raster layer and copy the ~Misted_Golden_Sea_RM and paste it into selection.

Now highlight the layer with the rectangle and copy it, now paste it onto your 499 X 445 canvas. As a new layer. Now duplicate it 2 more times, hide the top 2 layers, and make the first rectangle layer active. Now move it so it is up towards the left top, and then unhide the next rectangle layer and move it like you did the first one, but to the right and down a little, and repeat this step for the third one,  

Now back to the other canvas, where you made the rectangle, make the ~Misted_Golden_Sea_RM layer active, now paste that over onto your work in progress as a new layer, and move it so it sits in that last rectangle.

Now resize the angel tube to 328 X 206 pixels and paste it onto your canvas as a new layer and move it to the bottom (see my tag as an example)

Now make your bottom layer active, and add a new raster layer. Now grab your brush tool, and select the “swirl” brush I have included a psp image of it, if you do not have this as a brush (because I am unsure if it comes with PSP or not. All you need to do is go to file ~ export ~ custom brush. And then name it and save it and then you will have it). Now using your foreground color, “stamp” around the sides of the rectangles. Now, change the blend mode to “Burn”

Now Make your top layer active, and add a new raster layer. Now add your water mark, and text. If you ant to add a inner bevel or drop shadow, do so now.

Now add another raster layer.

Ok, now comes the harder part. In the supply folder, I have included the drop animations, but due to the fact that in the new PSP XI, if you copy and paste something from AS to PSP XI you loose the transparency, they have been saved as .pspimages if you are using psp X or lower, you can open it in AS and copy and paste the frames one at a time.. but in PSP XI you will need to open it in PSP.  I personally think it was easier to open them in PSP and do it the way that is explained below. Because you can keep track of the frames a lot easier.

With the top layer active. Go to selections ~ load/save selection ~ load from alpha channel ~  SunsetangelSelection. Now you should see marching ants on your canvas.  

Now activate the pinkdotsleft image. Now hide all of the layers except “frame 1” Now go to your material pallet, and left click on your foreground color, now you will see this..

now find the “pinkdotsleft” and select it, make sure that the direction is at 0(Zero) and the scale is 100 and select it.  

Now flood fill the left selection with the “pinkdotsleft” pattern.

Now go back to your patterns and find the “pinkdotstop” and select that one and flood fill the top selection with that one.

Select none.

Now right click and “copy Merged… and paste it over to AS as a new animation.

Now back in PSP, click your undo button 3 times

Now go to your “pinkdotsleft” and hide the “frame 1” layer and unhide the “frame 2” layer. And do the same with the “pinkdotstop” now find the “pinkdotsleft” and select it, now flood fill the left selection..   and then go back to your patterns and find the “pinkdotstop” and select that one and flood fill the top selection with that one.

Now select none.. and copy merge…. And paste it over to AS  “After current frame”

Now repeat the above steps until you have flood filled with all 8 frames. Each time you come back to psp from pasting “after a current frame” hide the frame you just flood filled with and unhide the next one. Until you have done all 8 frames. 

Now animate it and you are done! If you would like to resize it because it is to large for you.. this is what you do…

Go to edit ~ select all ~ animation  ~ resize animation  I resized mine to 353 X 315