In The Spotlight!

Supplies needed:
Paint Shop Pro 8, 9, 10
Animation Shop
Supply Folder
Photoimpact 10 (free trial)

Before we begin, open your tubes and mask (it's in .jpeg format) in PSP



1. Open a new transparent image, 400 X 400 pixals

2. Grab Your flood fill tool and flood fill this layer with the color #edc9d0

3. Now add a new raster layer, and flood fill this layer with the color #cc6c80

4. Go to Layers ~ new mask layer ~ From Image, and select the "lightbreakingthru_mdw11(mask)" image.

5. Now once the mask is applied, go to your layer pallet and merge group.

6. Now copy the grey frame, and then paste it as a new layer onto your canvas.
(later on we will be deleteing the frame layer, we use it as a guide to where to place the tubes in the upcomming steps.)

7. Now make the heart tube active, and copy it, now highlight (on your layer pallet) the layer that you applied the mask to, and paste it as a new layer. Now grab your mover tool and move it over to the left hand side, place it just under the frame, now duplicate this layer, and move the duplicate layer to the right hand side and place it like you did with the first one.

8. Now add a new raster layer, and add your watermark. And move this layer below the heart layers.

9. Now duplicate the tube titled "@lthea-Bourret" and close out the original, now resize it to W: 188 X H: 375 pixals.

10. Copy the tube "@lthea-Bourret" and paste it as a new layer, and move her to the right some. (now your frame layer should be the top layer on your canvas)

11. Now grab your text tool, I use the font: BoutiqueDisplay and the color: #ff0099

12. Now on your layer pallett, hide all of the layers except the frame, your text and the tube, and hearts (these should be the top layers, the bottom three should be the mask layer, watermaer and the solid pink layer) and merge visiable.

13. Now hide the merged layer, and unhide the others, and then merge visiable.

14. Ok now on your layer pallet you should have 2 layers, one with the frame, and the other is the "background", higlinght the frame layer, and copy, and then paste it as a new image.

15. Now delete the frame layer... now merge all, and save the "background" as a .jpeg.

16. Now open PhotoImpact 10 and open your "background" image.

17. Now open the "Easy Pallet" and expand the "animation gallery" and select animation lighting, and select the comet 3 effect, now play around with the clors that you want the lights to be, when you have the look that you want, click on on and select "save animation file ..." and then save it as a .gif

18. now open Animation shop, and open the animation we just made over in PhotoImpact 10, now mine has 10 frames to it.

19. Now in PSP make the frame that we pasted as a new image active, and once again copy it, and then paste it ovet to AS as a new animation, now duplicate it so you will have the same amount of frames as the animation.

20. Now go to edit~ select all...edit~ copy... now highlight the animation, go to edit~ select all... edit~paste into selected frame. Now all of your frames should look whole again.

21. Now go back to edit ~ select all.. edit~ copy and then paste it as a new animation, now we are going to reverst these frames, go to edit once again and "select all", now go to animation, Reverse frames" now back to edit, .. once again "select all" now on the original image, click on your last frame, now right click and "paste after current frame"

22. Now animate it and your done!





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06-20-06