PTU Pirates Life for Me PTU - Animated

PTU  Pirates Life for Me  PTU

Animated

This tutorial was written by me Fairygem on the 20^th March 2016 and is all my own creation and idea. For this tutorial you will need to have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop working with layers.

For this tutorial you will need :-

Paint Shop Pro – I am using X5 but any version will work.

Animation Shop – I bought this product when I got X12 but not sure if its still for sale or free. Google should be able to help you out.

Tube of Choice – I am using the wonderful artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You can buy Elias’s amazing artwork HERE

Scrapkit of Choice – I am using a beautiful kit by Ginnibug Designz called Pirates Life Yoho. This kit is for sale at Picsfordesign HERE. Please remember that Jenn sells her kits under the name LapisGin at Pfd.

Mask of Choice – I am using Mask 87 by SophisticatSimone. You can find her wonderful masks HERE

Font of Choice – I am using AR Berkley which came with Psp.

Plugins :-

Xenofex2 – Constellation

Open new image 700x700 white background. We can resize later.

Open Paper 4, Resize by 90%. Load Mask from Disk, Delete and merge group.

Open Element 11 and Resize by 65%. Copy and Paste as a new layer moving to where the sea meets the sky on the mask layer.

Open Element 25, Copy and Paste as a new layer and move to the right hand side near the bottom of the image. Give a drop shadow 2, 3, 25, and 4.00 Black.

Open Element 31, Copy and Paste as a new layer moving to the right hand side near the bottom of the image. Give a drop shadow as above.

Open Element 33 and resize by 55%. Copy and Paste as a new layer and place down from the centre of image. Mirror, Sharpen then drop shadow 4, 6, 25, 4.00 Black.

Open Element 49 and Resize by 65%. Copy and Paste as a new layer moving down the centre of image. Drop Shadow as above.

Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer. Move to the left hand side of image. Drop Shadow as above.

Open Element 53 and Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer move over to bottom right. Magic wand freehand point to point. Add (Shift). Draw around the coins see my tag reference below.

Duplicate twice and Rename 1, 2, 3. On layer 1 go to effects – Xenofex2 – Constellation Settings Below.

Make Layer 2 active – Effects – Constellation and press Random Seed. Ok

Make Layer 3 active – Effects – Constellation and press Random Seed, Ok Deselect.

Open Element 17 and Resize by 75%. Copy and Paste as a new layer moving to the left side bottom. Drop Shadow 4, 6, 25, 4.00 Black

Open Element 67 and Resize by 40%. Copy and Paste as a new layer moving down to left side bottom. Duplicate and move slightly over to the right. Merge down and give Drop Shadow as above.

Open Element 26 and Resize by 55% then 70%. Copy and Paste as a new layer move to left side bottom. Sharpen and and give Drop Shadow as above.

Add your copyright and license information.

Add your name using colour #811c49

NOW TO ANIMATE

Close off layers 2 and 3. Copy Merged then over to Animation Shop and Paste as a new layer.

Back to Psp – Hide Layers 1 and 3 and open 2. Copy Merged then over to Animation Shop. Click on your image then right click and paste after current frame.

Back to Psp – Hide Layers 1 and 2 and open 3. Copy Merged then over to Animation Shop. Click on your image then right click and paste after current frame.

Go to View Animation and check your animation. If happy Save as a GIF.

That’s it we are done. I hope you found this tutorial easy to follow any questions don’t hesitate to inbox me.

I would love to see your results so please feel free to inbox me and I will get them added to the thread.

Remember my tutorial is only a guideline put your own touches to it and make it your tag.

Hugs