Innocent Eyes by Wilma written with PSP 9 Click here to show me off your results! We are going to do this: Open your Paint Shop Pro. Create a new raster image, 5 x 5 pixels in width and height - Resolution 300.000, transparent. Choose the tube you want to use, duplicate and x out the original. Find a Bling that you want to use in your animation. Copy and paste your tube as new layer onto your new image, add a drop shadow of-Vertical-1-Horizontal 1- Opacity 50-Blur 1-color black. Add a new Raster layer- choose a dark and a light color from your tube, flood fill your new layer with the light color, Effects plug ins, Greg's factory outlet vol 11-Pool shadow- leave all the settings on 50 with the exception of intensity, put it on 44 and lightness 128; Go to layers-arrange, send to bottom. Add a New Raster layer, add your Watermark- I used a brush watermark and lowered the opacity to 86. Add a new raster layer-click on your pen tool- Click on Draw Bezier Curves at the top- left click on either side of your new raster layer and let up, go to the other side and left click and hold down on your mouse and pull down until you are satisfied with your curve for your text. Make sure your Background is set to null. Click on your text tool- choose the font of your choice, hover your mouse over the curve until you see an A with a rocker under it- Type in your text, and you can place the cursor at the beginning of your text and press on the space bar to make it go to the center of your graphic. Go to the layers pallet and click on the plus- close the eye on the part that says new path, this will hide your line- then Rt. click on the Vector layer and convert to Raster layer. Inner Bevel settings are Bevel #2-Width 10-Smoothness 20- Depth 10-Ambience 10-Shininess10-Angle 315-Intensity 50-Elevation 30- These are the drop shadow settings I used, Drop Shadow-V and H both at 1-Opacity 50-Blur-1-Color Black . You might want to save your graphic now as a psp image layers for later use, or in case you mess up somewhere down the line and need to back up. Go to Image, add Border 3 with the dark color- Image add Border 15 your light color- Image add Border 3 with the dark color. Click on your light border with the Magic Wand tool- Adjust add noise 10- Effects-texture effects-Mosaic Antique, These are the settings I used, you may want to adjust them to suit your taste, Drop shadow, I used the same as above- V and H both at 1-opacity 50- Blur 1 color black. Inner Bevel- Deselect! Image add borders 3 your dark color- Image add borders 20 your light color- Image add 3 your dark color- Select your light border with the magic wand- Go to Effects-Plug-ins-Simple-Diamonds, Inner Bevel, I used the settings in the screen shot. Select none. Add a new Raster layer. I used a dingfont called WM-Corners 3, and made my corner, I then impoted it as a Brush, you can then click on your paint brush and then find the corner you made. Here is the one that I made using the ding font. Click on your paint brush, find your corner you just made, these are my settings, I used my dark color and clicked 3 or 4 times- used same drop shadow as above. Layers Duplicate- Image Mirror- Layers Duplicate- Image Flip- Layers Duplicate-Image Mirror- I resized to 450-Layers merged visible- Adjust-Sharpness-sharpen. Now for the fun part- open Animation Shop- Edit Copy your graphic and go to Animation Shop and Right click and paste as new animation- Find a Bling that will go well with your Graphic and open it in AS. My Bling has 5 layers, so, I duplicated my graphic 4 times- Go to Edit -Duplicate selected - and do this for as many frames as your bling has- On your Graphic go to Edit - down to select all- and on the Bling Edit -select all- Hover your mouse on the first frame of your Bling- while pressing down your mouse drag the Bling over to where you want it in the first frame of your Graphic and let go- Go to View Animation and Wa La- it's animated. If your satisfied with the way it looks, Go to file, click on Optimization Wizard-follow directions and then save as a gif file, Your done:-) Hope you enjoyed this tut, my first! Click here to show me off your results! for Le Café D'Amis

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