Animated No Scraps Forum - "Fish In The Sea"

Fish In the Sea

This tutorial was written by me on April 24 2015, using my own ideas. Any resemblance to others is coincidental and accidental. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of psp and is written in PSPX6.

Supplies:

"Little Blue Mermaid" tube by Tori Beveridge - tube/license currently available at ADI

Word Art/Saying of Choice

Filters:

Flaming Pear_Flood

Greg's Factory Output_Splash

Fonts:

Cranberry Gin

 Abbreviations:

EC = Eye Candy

GG = Gradient Glow

DS = Drop Shadow

C/P = Copy and Paste

FF = Flood Fill

ANL = Add New Layer

AS = Animation Shop 

This is a long, tedious tutorial but it looks great when finished.

We will be doing the following steps on EACH fish, so get ready.

[**Select one of the fish

Paste as a new image

Using your selection tool, select the tail:

Promote Selection to Layer

Highlight original fish_Delete

Select none.

You may have a tiny line between the tail and body. If so, click on tail then click the arrow key a couple times to close the gap.

Copy Merged

AS

Paste As New Animation

Back to psp

Pick tool (K in pspX6)

Place mouse on center outside node

**Hold down left mouse button and slide to the right until the top outside node touches top tip of tail

Copy merged

AS

Paste After Current Frame**

Back to PSP

Repeat ** step until the tail is gone (6 frames)

In AS

Edit_Select All

Copy

Click on LAST frame

Paste after current frame

Edit_Select all

Animation_ Frame Properties_20 (or whatever speed you like)

Click on Frame 7

Hold down the shift key and select frames 7-12

Animation_Reverse Frames

View_Animation

If speed is right for you, we are ready for next fish. If not, go back to Animation_Frame Properties and change the number until it looks good to you. **]

Repeat the steps between [** and **] for EACH fish

Leave each one open in AS when done with it. We will need them later.

Whew!! What a work out!! LOL

Now to make our tag:

Open blank 600x250 image

Make a gradient using #b0a8de and #778ad1

ANL

FF with Gradient_Radial_5 repeats

Flaming Pear_Flood:

Greg's Factory Output_Splash_68_15_0

Adjust_Blur_Radial Blur:

Noise_Uniform_10

C/P tube

DS_15_25_65_35_#335d8c

Add Word Art/Saying of choice

ANL to top

FF with Gradient changing to Linear_Angle 45_5 repeats

Select All_Contract 3_Delete_Select None

Noise_30

DS_0_0_100_10_Black

Add all correct copyright/license information

Name_Cranberry Gin_48_#6ed6ee

DS_2_5_50_5_Black

Close the top frame layer

Copy Merged

AS

Paste As New Animation

Now we're ready to animate!!

Hold down ctrl and click L until you have 12 frames

Edit_Select All

**Highlight one of the fish images you have open in AS

Edit_Select All

Ctrl+C

Highlight the main tag image

Ctrl+E

Place fish where you like it

Click to place**

Repeat from ** to ** for each fish

View_Animation

Does it look good to you?

If not, click the undo arrow and replace the fish until you are happy

Back to PSP

Open the frame layer_highlight this layer in palette

Back in AS

Ctrl+V

Ctrl+C

Click the "Propagate Paste" button at top of AS (it looks like 3 sheets of paper with the corners folded down)

Highlight main tag

Ctrl+E

The curser will show in the center of tag

DO NOT MOVE CURSER

Click once

Roll mouse to enlarge image and check edges. They should be nicely aligned. If not, undo and re-paste.

Once again check animation by going to View_Animation

If happy, save that baby!!!