COLOUR FANTASY
PSP9 to PSP2019

This tutorial was written by Jemima ~ OCTOBER 2018
Copyright © 2018 ~ Jemima ~ All rights reserved

This was created using PSP9 but can be adapted for other versions of PSP.

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No artists or copyright infringement is intended on any of the tubes used in this tutorial.
The tubes were acquired in good faith as to their legality.
If there is a problem, please contact the author and the image/s will be removed.

You will need the following to complete this tutorial

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ANIMATION SHOP 3.11
Download HERE

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Materials

Blue Frog.png
FRAME160.png
brucero520.png
frond frame.png
mushrooms75.png
Save to a folder on your computer

linenPOP.bmp
Save to your PSP Textures folder

Plugins

** NONE **

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You can drag this hand down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.

COLOURS USED .
STEP 1 Open a new image 800 x 600 Transparent background PSPX - X2: Colour Depth = 8bits/channel PSPX3-PSP2019: Colour Depth RGB = 8bits/channel Flood fill with BEIGE #9fa660 Rename this layer BGD 1 LAYERS >>> NEW RASTER LAYER Flood fill with GREEN #298b29 Rename this layer BGD 2 LAYERS >>> NEW RASTER LAYER Flood fill with YELLOW #ffff00 Rename this layer BGD 3 SAVE YOUR WORK
STEP 2 Open up the frond frame image in your PSP workspace Right click on the Title Bar and select COPY from the options Right click on the Title Bar of your tag image and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER from the options. IMAGE >>> RESIZE = 85% Ensure "Resize all layers" is UNCHECKED Resample using WEIGHTED AVERAGE Check "Lock aspect ratio" ADJUST >>> SHARPNESS >>> SHARPEN
STEP 3 Choose your FREEHAND SELECTION TOOL Selection Type = Point to Point Mode = Replace Feather = 0 Smoothing = 6 Antialias = Checked Select the area indicated
STEP 4 LAYERS >>> NEW RASTER LAYER LAYERS >>> ARRANGE >>> MOVE DOWN Flood fill with BEIGE #9fa660 DESELECT EFFECTS >>> TEXTURE EFFECTS >>> TEXTURE TEXTURE =linenPOP ,
STEP 5 Open up the brucero520 image in your PSP workspace Right click on the Title Bar and select COPY from the options Right click on the Title Bar of your tag image and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER from the options. IMAGE >>> RESIZE = 85% Ensure "Resize all layers" is UNCHECKED Resample using WEIGHTED AVERAGE Check "Lock aspect ratio" ADJUST >>> SHARPNESS >>> SHARPEN EFFECTS >>> IMAGE EFFECTS >>> OFFSET Horizontal Offset = - ( minus ) 30 Vertical Offset = 74 Edge Mode = Transparent
STEP 6 ACTIVATE Raster 1 Open up the mushrooms75 image in your PSP workspace Right click on the Title Bar and select COPY from the options Right click on the Title Bar of your tag image and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER from the options. EFFECTS >>> IMAGE EFFECTS >>> OFFSET Horizontal Offset = - ( minus ) 200 Vertical Offset = - ( minus ) 100 Edge Mode = Transparent, EFFECTS >>> 3D EFFECTS >>> DROP SHADOW Vertical & Horizontal offsets = - ( minus ) 4 Colour = Black Opacity = 65 Blur = 20.00 SAVE YOUR WORK
STEP 7 Open up the Blue Frog image in your PSP workspace Right click on the Title Bar and select COPY from the options Right click on the Title Bar of your tag image and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER from the options. IMAGE >>> RESIZE = 45% Ensure "Resize all layers" is UNCHECKED Resample using WEIGHTED AVERAGE Check "Lock aspect ratio" ADJUST >>> SHARPNESS >>> SHARPEN EFFECTS >>> IMAGE EFFECTS >>> OFFSET Horizontal Offset = - ( minus ) 195 Vertical Offset = 45 Edge Mode = Transparent, EFFECTS >>> 3D EFFECTS >>> DROP SHADOW Same settings
STEP 8 ACTIVATE Raster 1 EFFECTS >>> 3D EFFECTS >>> DROP SHADOW Vertical & Horizontal offsets = 2 Colour = Black Opacity = 65 Blur = 10.00 Repeat Drop Shadow effect changing Vertical & Horizontal Offsets to - ( minus ) 2 Click OK CLOSE BGD1. BGD2 and BGD3 With Raster 1 active... LAYERS >>> MERGE >>> MERGE VISIBLE SAVE YOUR WORK
STEP 9 LAYERS >>> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER >>> INVERT ,
STEP 10 LAYERS >>> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER >>> INVERT ,
STEP 11 LAYERS >>> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER >>> INVERT ,
STEP 12 LAYERS >>> DUPLICATE In your LAYER PALETTE change the BLEND MODE to COLOR (L)   SAVE YOUR WORK
STEP 13 ACTIVATE BGD 3 but keep closed. Open up the FRAME160 image in your PSP workspace Right click on the Title Bar and select COPY from the options Right click on the Title Bar of your tag image and select PASTE AS NEW LAYER from the options. Rename this layer FRAME
STEP 14 LAYERS >>> NEW RASTER LAYER Select your TEXT TOOL with font and settings of your choice add your name Rename this layer NAME SAVE YOUR WORK
STEP 15 Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options
STEP 16 In ANIMATION SHOP Right click the workspace and select 'Paste As New Animation' from the options. Back to PSP. Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options,
STEP 17 In ANIMATION SHOP Select >>> 'Paste After Current' icon on top menu Back to PSP. Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options,
STEP 18 In ANIMATION SHOP Select >>> 'Paste After Current' icon on top menu Back to PSP. Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options,
STEP 19 In ANIMATION SHOP Select >>> 'Paste After Current' icon on top menu Back to PSP. Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options, In your LAYER PALETTE on BGD 3 change the BLEND MODE to LUMINANCE (L)
STEP 20 In ANIMATION SHOP Select >>> 'Paste After Current' icon on top menu Back to PSP. Set up LAYER PALETTE as shown Right click on Title Bar and select Copy merged from the options,
STEP 21 In ANIMATION SHOP Select >>> 'Paste After Current' icon on top menu Edit >> Select All Right click on Title Bar of frames Select 'Frame Properties' from the options Display time = 30 ,
STEP 22 View >> Animation and while it is still running, File >> Save As Locate the folder in which you wish to save it. Name your animation. With the Gif Optimiser keep pressing NEXT until you get to the last one... click FINISH Close the Animation Close the frames. Close Animation Shop ,

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