PSP
Tutorial - Swimming Dolphin Globe
This tutorial
has been reproduced by very kind permission from its author,
Jacs. Her beautiful web site can be seen at www.JacsGraphics.com
The
skill level required is : INTERMEDIATE
I
made this originally for a lady in a newsgroup. Then I thought
about it and what a great tutorial it would be!
ALL Images here are ©Jacs Graphics however what you make
from this tutorial is yours to do with as you please.
This
tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP and
was written for PSP 7.
Items
you will need to complete this tutorial.
Paint
Shop Pro 7: Get it here
Eyecandy 3: Get
it here (It used to be free .. now you need to purchase
EyeCandy 4000 from AlienSkin)
The Background : Get
it here
Dolphin Globe Tubes : Get
the ones we have used here
And most importantly your imagination!
Various
underwater tubes. Alan at PSP-Tubes.com
has very graciously put the bottom and side coral tubes into
the free section of his site so they would be free for everyone
to download =0)
(A
30 day membership to PSP-Tubes.com is only $4.95, check
it out)
Ready
to go? Great! Let's get started! Remember all images have been
resized and optimized to reduce download time so they will look
fuzzy.
Open
a new image 500x500 pixels transparent background.
Using
your preset shapes tool: elipse draw a nice big circle. Leave
just enough room for the base.
Position the circle near the top and convert to a raster layer.
Now flood fill with the page background. Selections: Select
All and Selections: Float, now save your selection to Alpha
Channel. This will make the rest very easy.
Using
Eyecandy 3, Go to the swirl filter. I used these settings. Play
around with them until you get a look you like.
And
apply an inner bevel using these settings
Great,
you are finished with the base for your image =0) Let's add
our base. Position it as you like.
Now
let's add the coral_38 
,
this gives it the look of an ocean bottom.
Open the tube in PSP and copy and paste it as a new layer onto
your globe. You will probably notice it is much larger than
your base should be, but we will take care of that =0)
Position it however you like, then go to Selections: Load from
Alpha Channel Selections: Invert and hit delete. Select None.
The excess is all gone =0)
Now
you can just pull that layer down underneath the base layer.
Perfect!
SAVE
YOUR WORK !!
We
are going to repeat that same process with our coral tubes,
placing them and loading the selections, inverting, and deleting.
Arrange your tubes however you like them. Just remember to leave
enough room for your dolphin to swim. Here is mine as I did
it.
I
have added all of my coral, a starfish, stingray, and some fishies.
I like the way it looks so I am going to continue on. if you
are happy with it then Merge visible layers and continue onto
the next step. If not, play with it until you are and then you'll
be ready to go =0)
SAVE
YOUR WORK !!
Let's
make our Dolphin swim!
This
can get rather tricky, but just be patient - you'll get it.
Open up the dolphin tubes. You will see one has it's tail in
the up position and one in the down position. You will alternate
these to make your dolphin swim. Remember, you can add as many
frames as you like, but the more you add the larger the size
will be to download.
The first thing you need to do is duplicate (Shift+D) your globe
image about 5 times. You may need more, so if you get to the
last blank globe and still have more to do then duplicate it
a few more times before adding to it.
Take your first dolphin image and place it so that only the
head is showing. Then do the selections to remove the excess.
You will want to sort of line them up. Dolphins don't swim in
a straight line, but they dont swim in a zig zag either .. LOL.
To do this I go to normal viewing, place my first dolphin on
as I like it, then pull up a blank globe and place it next to
the first one to try to line it up a bit better. Like this:
It
probably won't be perfect, but that's ok =0)
Ok,
so on each blank frame. You want to move your dolphin so much,
like it would move if it was swimming, lining it up as well
as you can, and go all the way across the globe until all that's
left is the tail.
Here is part of mine
I
ended up with 11 images total. Now what you want to do is go
back to each image and merge visible layers & save them
as a .psp file. It is easiest to number them 1-11, or however
you want to do it, just so you know which order to put them
in in animation shop.
Now
would be the time to test your swimming. Go to animation shop
and choose the animation wizard. I have outlined what should
be selected in each screen.
1. Same size as first image frame.
2. Transparent.
3. Upper left corner of the frame & With the canvas color.
4. Yes, Repeat the animation indefinately & enter 10-15
into the box.
5. Choose your images & finish.
If
you are happy with it go ahead and continue. If not, go back
and undo the layer merging, fix what you don't like, re-merge
and re-test.
To
add the sparkles and the bubbles go back to each frame. Use
your picture tube tool to add bubbles around where the dolphin
is swimming and sparkles wherever you like. These will go straight
onto the merged image and will not create a new layer so you
won't have to worry about re-merging. Re-save all of the images
as you finish, then take them to animation shop and use the
same settings. If your globe is to big, while in animation shop
hit CTRL+S and resize it =0)
SAVE
YOUR WORK !!
Congratulations,
you have made a swimming dolphin globe!
I
do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, if you would like to
have it posted to our gallery just email
it to me along with your name.
Authors
copyright notice : All images here are © Jacs Graphics
however what you make from this tutorial is yours to do with
as you please.
Please
give credit where credit is due. I put time and effort into
making these graphics, as well as, writing the tutorials for
you to make your own. Please respect those efforts and get permission
from me before "lifting" anything from this page.
You may copy for personal use but it may not be published in
print or on the web without prior written consent from me. Thank
you very much!
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