Orb Of Light (animated)

                                                              to see it animated click here

I wrote this tut on 2nd of october,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
plug in eyecandy 4000 HSB noise

Other supplies
scrapkit is called the light by by naughty angel creations
you can buy the kit from here
mask used WSL MASK 26 find it here
font of your choice

lets begin


open a new image 700 x 600 on a white background

c/p fae 3 as a new layer and resize 600 pixels

c/p candle 1 as a new layer and resize to 400 pixels


c/p swing 1 as a new layer and resize to 400 pixels


c/p orbstand2 asa new layer


c/p lightglow2 as anew layer and resize by 300 pixels


c/p bow 1 as a new layer and resize to 300 pixels


c/p stardust as a new layer and duplicate 2 times,place where you wish


c/p wordart 5 as anew layer and resize to 300 pixels



c/p gem 2 as anew layer and resize to 300 pixs,duplicate and resize to 600 pixels


c/p paper of choice,i used paper 10,go to layers,load/mask and
then to load mask from disk add a mask of your choice,i used WSL MASK 26,apply mask
then right click mask layer,delete the merge the group

activate orbstand layer and using your freehand tool on point to point go around
the orb only once done,selct none then promote selection to layer,now you only have the orb
duplicate this layer 2 times

close off the last 2 orb layers and make active the first orb layer

go to effects eyecandy 4000 HSB noise and apply default settings press ok

close off this layer and open your next and do the same as above into effects but this time
press the random seed once,press ok and repeat with your last layer pressing random seed once


choose two colours from your tag and write out your text with a font of your choice


add any copyright and watermarks merge all layers and resize if needed

close off the last 2 orbstand layers and activate the first orb,right click image and
copy merged

open animation shop


time to animate

go into animation shop and go to edit the paste as a new animation,back into paintshop
close off first orb and open the next,into animation shop right click image and the paste after
current frame,back into paintshop and do the same with the last 2 layers,once your done
you should have 3 frames

right click your image and view animation if happy ,you can resize your tag if you wish

then go to file and save as a gif,thats it all done


thank you for trying out my Tut's, I hope you enjoyed it,thank you very much:)