©Designs by Sandee

This tutorial is dedicated to a wonderful man who was a real gentleman, he was a member

of my group for many years and sadly passed away on the 8th June 2006

rest in peace my friend...

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

PSP 9

Graphic Plus

Bordermania

Almathera Puddle Filter

Supplies

1. Open up a new image 700 x 400

2. Flood fill with #000C1B and apply Graphic Plus Cross Shadow using the default settings

3. Copy and paste the scene tube as a new layer - position this to the right side and lower the opacity to 26

4. Duplicate your scene layer - Image - Mirror - move left until the moon is just hidden

5. On your layer palette, drag your duplicate scene layer below the original layer

6. Making sure your highlight is on the top layer, copy and paste the rose tube onto your working image - move the rose to the far left side and apply the following drop shadow

7. Copy and paste the boat tube as a new layer on your working image - see my finished image for position

8. Apply the same drop shadow as in step 6

9. Layers - merge visible

10. Image - Canvas Size - resize to the same settings as below

11. Select the new area with your wand and flood fill with #000C1B

12. Keep selected - Effects - Texture effects - Blinds using the following settings

13. Still selected apply the following Inner Bevel

14. Select none

15. Add a new layer - X off your foreground colour and change your background colour to #a2ccfa, using your favourite font type in your name or Happy Birthday, Congratulations etc then apply a drop shadow - merge layers visible

16. Add a 5px border - select and fill with the silver pattern - apply Bordermania Frame 2 changing the top two settings to 5 - if you want to you can add some corners then merge your layers

17. Using the Freehand Selection Tool set to Point to Point start outlining your water but make sure you keep a little away from the silver border on the far right side, not a great deal just a bit

18. Once you have the ants marching around, duplicate this layer twice

19. X off the bottom two layers and working on your top layer apply Almathera Puddle using the same settings as below

20. Now working on your middle layer (make sure you X off the others) apply the filter again only this time change the scale to 32

21. Working on the bottom layer now, apply the same filter and change the scale to 34 - selections - select none

22. X off the middle and bottom layers, make sure your highlight is on your top layer - File - Save As - save this as Image1.psp

23. Do the same to your other layers so you end up with Image 1, 2 and 3psp

24. Now open up Animation Shop - click on the animation wizzard - check same size as first image - next - transparent - next - check upper left corner of frame - with canvas colour - next - yes repeat and enter 30 in the frame rate box - next - add image - find your 3 psp files and add them - next - finish - you can view your animation before saving - if your happy with it - save as and give your image a name....

That's it, your all done !

Hope you enjoyed this one !

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