Animated Lake and Frame

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Supplies

Jasc. Paint Shop Pro 7 you can get it here.

A tube of your choice.

Make sure it will look good on a black background.

Graphics Plus filter you can get here.

Visman you can get that here

It is under Visman Plugin Party.

Flaming Pear Flood you can get it here.

When you get to the page, on the left side is Download, click that and scroll till you find Flood.

Now on to the tut.

1. Open a New Transparent Image.

Flood fill with color #000000

600 x 600

We can resize it later :)

2. Layers/ New Raster Layer

Select the tube you are going to use and apply.

Duplicate that layer.

Layers / Duplicate

Now we have to close that layer.

On the layer palette click on the eyeglasses to make a red x

Now click on layer 1 to make it active. It will highlight in blue.

3. Effects/ Plugin Effects/ Flaming Pear/ Flood

Using these setting

Hit ok

4. Click on your Freehand Tool

Now left click and hold and trace the outline of your water and then when you get to the end just release your mouse button.

This is what we have so far.

Duplicate your image 3 x by using Shift D

Making your first image active

5. Layers / New Raster Layer

Effects/ Noise / Add and apply these settings

Selections / Select None

Click the Layer you have "X'd out and make it active

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible.

6. Make Image 2 active and apply noise again using these settings

Selections/ Select None

Click the Layer you have "X'd out and make it active

Layers/ Merge/ Merge Visible

7. Make the 3rd image active and apply the Noise again using these settings

Selections / Select none.

Click the Layer you have "X'd out and make it active

Layers/ Merge/ Merge Visible

This is what we have so far I hope you are still with me lol.

Now you need to pick 2 colors using the Color Dropper making the foreground the darker and the background lighter.

Image/ Add Border/ using these settings

Now I did this to all my images so I didn't forget what I had to do.

So click on Image 2 and apply the border to that and then go to 3 and do the same.

Make our first image active and using the Magic Wand click on the border we just made to make it active.

Now go to Effects / Plugin Effects / Graphics Plus / Weaver

using these settings

Now do this to all 3 of our images.

Save

Selections / Select None.

Rotate your Foreground and Background Colors by clicking on the arrow in your color palette.

Make your first image active

Image/ Add Border/ using this setting

On all 3 images make the new border active using your Magic Wand.

Effects / Plugin Effects/ VM / Lightsplash

Using these settings

do that to all 3 images.

Selections/ Select none

Save

Now rotate colors again

Image / Add Border

using this setting

Do that to all 3 images

Go to your Magic Wand and make all the new Borders we just made active

Effects / Plugins/ Graphics Plus / Weaver

same settings as before.

Make sure you do that to all 3 images.

Selections / Select None

Now we are going to resize them all

Image/ Resize

300 x 300

Effects / Sharpen / Sharpen

Save all three images and1,2,3.psp

Go to File / Jasc Software Products/ Launch Animation Shop

Click on Animation Wizard

Next

Next

Next

Next

Next

Finish

When they load in Animation

View / Animation

Save

Home

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MarianneP(nospam)@insight.rr.com

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I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.