Animated Snowman Tag
For this headtag I used the small letters of the font !!!
This you need for this tutorial:
Greg's Factory Output Filters 1
Do not forget to save your work often !!!
Set your foregroundcolor on #31744A and your backgroundcolor on #9BC78F.
Open a new image of 500x 500, transparent.
When you have a name longer then five letters I would use a transparent
image of 800 x 600 and crop later on.
Open the Snowman.psp.
Edit > Copy.
Go to your new image of 500 x 500 and edit > paste as new layer.
Effects > plugins > Greg's Factory Output > blowout with these setting:
Go to your layerpalette, click with your right mousebutton on layer2 and
choose duplicate. Image > mirror.
Layers > merge > merge visible.
Paste the snowman.psp again as a new layer on the image of 500 x 500.
Layers > merge > merge visible.
Layers > new rasterlayer.
Go to your texttool and use the following settings:
It's important if you want to use the xmasballes that you use the capslock,
when you use little letters you will get presents !!!
Effects > 3D effects > inner bevel:
Selections > Modify > Expand by 2.
Layers > new rasterlayer.
Floodfill this selections with your foregroundcolor.
Pull this layer in the layerpalette under layer1.
Selections > modify > expand by 2.
Layers > new rasterlayer.
Floodfill this selection with black.
Pull this layer in the layerpalette under layer2.
Selections > select none.
When you would like to move your text,
you will have to merge visible only the three text layers.
Then you can go to your movertool and place the text where you would like it !!!
Place your watermark if you want too.
Layers > merge > merge visible.
Go to your layerpalette en click with the right mousebotton on the merged layer and
duplicate it 4 times:
Make sure the merged layer is active and
close the other layers by clicking on the glasses.
Take your magicwand and use the follow settings:
Click with your magicwand in the left light.
Colors > adjust > Brightness/Contrast:
Selections > select none.
Go to your layerpalette and make your Copy of merged active.
Click with your magicwand in the blue light and repeat
Colors > adjust > Brightness/Contrast with the same settings as before.
Selections > select none.
Repeat these steps with all the lights.
Selections > select none.
When you have chosen a bigger image then 500 x 500 you will
have to cropped now !!!
Image > resize with 50%.
Go to your layerpalette and close all the layers by clicking on the glasses and
make sure your bottomlayer is active.
Effects > sharpen > sharpen.
Click in the layerpalette on the Copy of merged layer and repeat the sharpen,
do this with all of the other layers too.
Save you creation as psp. File > save as ...
Open animation shop.
File > Jasc Software Products > Launch Animation Shop.
File > animation Wizard.
Full view of the animation wizard with what to do:
Next
Next
next
next
Click on Add Image en search for you just saved psp of this tutorial.
Next.
Click on Finish and you creation will appear in animationshop.
File > Save as.
Give it a name of your choice and click save.
Your tag is now ready for use !!!
Have fun with this lesson.
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This tutorials is written by Inge Bruggeman november 14th 2002.
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