Team Edward (animated )

       

to see animated please click here 

I wrote this tut on 30th of sept,2009 for julies tutorials
Any resemblence to any other tutorials is purely coincidental.

supplies needed

you also need paintshop pro,i use version 12
A knowledge of paintshop pro is needed
Animation shop 3


other supplies used
scrapkit is by ziggy go here
all elements come with this gorgoeus kit but you can use a tube if you wish
font of your choice
mask of your choice
plugins used alien skin xenofex 2 lightning trial here


lets begin


Open a new image 700 x 700 white background

Copy and paste frame 2 as a new layer

Add a new layer and make your frame active, using magic wand and holding down the shift key
click inside your frame

Choose a paper of your choice I used paper 5 and paste a paper into selection, select none

Copy and paste paper 3 as a new layer and add a mask of your choice
apply your mask then right click your mask layer and delete, then merge group

Copy and paste swirl as a new layer and using your pick tool stretch out a touch
see my tag for reference

Make paper layer active and Using colour black I wrote team Edward, duplicate three times
and cover paper layer see my for reference

Copy and paste toon with fangs as a new layer and resize to 400 pixels

Copy and paste apple as a new layer and resize to 300 pixels

Copy and paste sticker as a new layer and resize to 400 pixels

Copy and paste baseball bat as a new layer and resize to 400 pixels

Copy and paste baseball glove as a new layer and resize to 300 pixels

Copy and paste baseball as a new layer and resize to 200 pixels

Copy and paste bow 1 as a new layer and resize 300 pixels, duplicate and go to
image and mirror

Copy and paste the stitched circle as a new layer and resize to 300 pixels

I added team Edward to circle using a font

Copy and paste lightning as a new layer and place in the left-hand corner
of your image

Duplicate your lightning 2 times so you have three lightning layers, rename them
lightning 1,2 and 3, close off 2 and 3, make 1 active

Go to effects plug-ins alien skin xenofex 2  lightning using the default settings
click ok

Close off lightning 1 and open lightning 2 and this time press the random seed once
close off lightning 2 and open lightning 3 and press random seed once

Choose two colours from your tag and write out your name with a font of your choice

Time to animate

Close off lightning 2 and 3, make lightning 1 active

Open animation shop

Right click your image and copy merged go into animation shop

Click on edit paste as a new animation, back into paintshop close off number 1 and open
number 2, go back into animation and right click your image and paste after current frame
go back into paintshop close off number 2 and open number 3 copy merged into animation
right click and paste after current frame

You need to resize your tag go to edit select all, animation resize animation, I
resize mine to 500 pixels

To slowdown animation go to animation frame properties and change display time to 40

View your animation if happy go to file save as a gif



thanks for trying out my tut,i hope you enjoyed it :)