Enchanted Book Tutorial

The Enchanted Book

Supplies needed:

PSP 8, 9, X or XI

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I wrote this tutorial in version XI

I did not use any outside filters to do this.

Ok, grab your drink, snack, or whatever else you need to do this.

Now before we start, duplicate (Shift + D) the tube and close out the original one. Because we will be working on the duplicate canvas.

Now I put a black background on mine, if you want a background add a new raster layer and flood fill it with the color of your choice and then merge visible.

Now grab your freehand tool (the lasso) and draw around the page (see example).

Now promote selection to layer. And Select “None”

Now grab your Pick Tool (If you are using a version of PSP older than X.. use your deform tool. It's the same thing). Now you should have a box around it with nodes, go to the top right corner, and press your shift key down, and pull the node up slightly. And do the same with the bottom right hand node. Then release the shift key and go to the center node on the right and drag it some towards the left.

Now on your layer pallet, duplicate this layer.

Now go to the top right corner, and press your shift key down, and pull the node up slightly. And do the same with the bottom right hand node. Then release the shift key and go to the center node on the right and drag it some towards the left.

Now on your layer pallet, duplicate this layer.

Now with your pick tool, grab the center node on the right and once again pull it towards the left.

You want to keep duplicating it until you get to the center. So otherwise, you move it, duplicate it, move it, and duplicate it. Each time you duplicate it, you move the new layer.

Once you get to the center, rename your layers, I named mine, R1, R2, R3, (the “R” stands for right for the right side of the book) and so on. And hide them.

Now what we are going to do is… repeat the steps that we just did, but on the left side of the book.

Make the book layer active, and grab your freehand tool, and draw the outline like before but on the left hand side of the book.

Remember to promote the selection to a layer, and then select none. Now move this layer to the top (Layers – arrange – move to top).

Now we are going to do the same thing as before…

Now grab your Pick Tool. Now you should have a box around it with nodes, go to the top right corner, and press your shift key down, and pull the node up slightly. And do the same with the bottom right hand node. Then release the shift key and go to the center node on the right and drag it some towards the left.

Now on your layer pallet, duplicate this layer.

Now with your pick tool, grab the center node on the right and once again pull it towards the left.

You want to keep duplicating it until you get to the center. So otherwise, you move it, duplicate it, move it, and duplicate it. Each time you duplicate it, you move the new layer.

Now when you get to the center, rename the layers I renamed them L1, L2, L3, now the next steps can be a little tricky, you will need to move the layers the L1 layer will need to become the top layer, and the L2, layer will need to be the second from the top and so on. You need to do this so it looks like the page is going from the right to the left. So.. say you have 7 of the left side layers, when you look at your layer pallet from the top, it should look like, L1,L2,L3,L4,L5,L6,L7..then if you ended up with 7 layers of the right side it will be R7,R6,R5,R4,R3,R2,R1, tube layer. I then renamed the layers again to read P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,P6 and so on (“P” standing for page).

Ok, now the next step is to duplicate your tube layer for each page layer you have, now, remember that you need to have the original one on the bottom, and then a copy of it, then R1, and so on. After I got all of my tube layers in place, I renamed the tube layer to B1,B2,B3,B4 (“B” standing for book) and so on so it would match with the proper page numbers.

Now, hide all of the layers, and start from the bottom of the layers, unhide B1 and P1, and then merge visible, and hide it, and repeat this step with B2 and P2 and work your way up.

Once you are at the top of the layer pallet, grab your Text tool and add your text, and watermark.

And you are going to move that layer to the bottom, and duplicate it, like you did before with your tube layer, with this one I started at the top of the layer pallet and just merged down the text layer.

Now save it as a .psp and open Animation Shop.

Open your saved .psp image, animate it, save it and your done!

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Tutorial was written on October 8, 2006. This tutorial is not to copied or claimed as your own.

Do Not translate this tutorial without prior permission from me.