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Glitter Pictures You can use this tutorial with any version of PSP. Pictures shown are from PSP 9. You can download a trial version of PSP 9 at http://www.jasc.com You also need Animation Shop, which is part of PSP when you buy it. You can also get a trial copy at Jasc. Click on "trial downloads" to find it. Feel free to link back to my page and to share with your friends & groups! What are we making? This!
For this tutorial, click and save this picture if you'd like to follow along. If choosing one of your own, pick something with at least one place where you'd like to make something flash. Big, open spaces are going to work the best.
Now, you need some glitter. You can find quite a few at Design by Aylana. Try a link from Da Brat's list. Don't worry that the glitter is sparkling. Just right click and copy the picture to, say, "My Documents/My Pictures/Obsessions/Glitter" like me. For this tutorial, we're coloring the sun, so feel free to use the glitter below. Please copy it to your hard drive.
*gold from Aylana, thanks!*
Okay. Open PSP. Choose: FILE and JASC SOFTWARE PRODUCTS. You are going to open JASC ANIMATION SHOP. (You can also just open it alone.)
Open the glitter file in Animation Shop ONLY. In this case, "gold-06.gif". You will now see all the frame that make the glitter move and sparkle. Some glitters have a lot of frames, some have only two. Our glitter has 5 frames.
Now, you can do TWO different things here. It depends on how often you suppose you'll use the glitter. METHOD ONE: For a permanent copy of each of the frames, click and highlight ONE of the panels. There will be a blue and red circle around the one you have selected. (see above) RIGHT CLICK and choose "SAVE FRAME AS". Choose a name (gember1.gif, gember2.gif, etc.) and save the new files somewhere you can find them. METHOD TWO: For a temporary copy, RIGHT CLICK and choose COPY. Then, switch to PSP and Paste the image by RIGHT CLICKING anywhere, or using the PASTE tool. Once I discovered I could do this, I started using it all the time. Since I like to choose different glitters every time I create something. Now, we go back to PSP.
1. If you used METHOD ONE, open each individual glitter frame in PSP. There MUST be more than ONE GLITTER frame. There should be at least two, if not more than that. For our example, there should be five frames now in PSP, waiting for you to use. Make sure all the frames are open at this time, sitting on your PSP desktop.
2. Open our "GlitterGirl" picture. Using your "magic wand" tool, select all the sections of the sun. I found it works great to use RGB, with a setting of 20 Tolerence...this picks up big pieces of the sun without getting the background (or the matching yellow streamer in the background). To select more than one piece of it at any time, use the "shift" key while clicking your selections of the sun. If you don't get it all in one go, simply hit the shift key and click on the pieces you missed. When done, you should have the entire sun selected.
3. Click on the FILL button and change it from solid color to TEXTURE. That's the circle of dots, if you don't already know. If you're having trouble getting to this box, just hold your mouse down a little longer on the color. Release the mouse when you've chosen the TEXTURE feature.
4. A bizarre texture is now in the FILL area. CLICK IT.
This box will now open. We're going to change the "leopard" pattern to glitter by clicking on that and scrolling UP until we see our glitter.
Basically, any picture or texture currently on your desktop becomes a 'pattern' you can choose. Chose the first picture in this list, in my case "image 3".
*Note: My glitter looked a little weird, so I "seamless tiled" it. Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling. I did that to all the glitter panels. That's why my copy there doesn't look like yours will.
5. Using the Flood Fill tool, fill your selected area with this pattern. Save this image. You can save it in any format you like, from .jpg to .gif and back again. Name your file something with a number to correspond with what frame you're working with. This is our first image, so I used 'glittergirl1'. Go ahead and click save. ** We are creating a series of frames that we will put together in Animation Shop to create a moving animation. You need more than one frame of your name, just as you needed more than one frame of glitter. For each frame of glitter, you will have one frame for your picture or text. I will have 4 "Deoris" frames when I'm done.** You'll need to save the images as transparent gif's if you want no solid background. Need to learn how? Try the tutorial! 6. When you are done saving, click "UNDO" until the sun goes back to it's normal state. Repeat step 4, choosing the SECOND GLITTER FRAME this time. Watch out! Be sure you're choosing the right frame. "Current Pattern" is what you already have selected, which was "image2". You want "image3" this time.
Repeat step 5. Repeat step 6 (this step). Continue until all frames for your glitter have been used. Remember to save each under a NEW name. "glittergirl2" etc. Now we go back to Animation Shop. 7. Easiest thing? Use the ANIMATION WIZARD. That's the first button on the toolbar, or FILE and WIZARD.
Follow the Wizard instructions. Choose "Same size as the first image frame", click next. Choose "transparent" if you want no background to appear, click next. Leave defaults, click next. Choose "repeat indefinitely" and change the frame display time to "20" (see note below).
If you like, you can now reorder the frames so they appear in the right order. Use "move up" or "move down" to move the frames around. When they're where you think you'll want them, click next and then finish. You have an animation! If you click the "VIEW ANIMATION" button (at the far right edge of the toolbar, or VIEW and ANIMATION) you will see your text move around.
Play with the speed of the frames by highlighting all the frames (that blue and red square from the top of the page). You can also choose one frame, right click and change the properties of just that frame. I changed all mine to a rate of "10". 8. Save the animation. I know...didn't we just save? We did, in PSP. That saved "static" images that don't move. We want to save your finished animation. Make sure you have the actual animation selected, not the preview. You won't be able to optimize if you have the preview selected, so you'll know pretty fast if you've got the wrong thing. Choose "File" and "Optimization".
Follow the Wizard defaults to the end. This will compress your file a little so it's not so big. Choose "File" and "Save As" and save your animation. You're all done!
You might not see your animation moving when you add it to pages or blogs until it's been published. It might look flat and not at all sparkly until it's published. This is actually one of the big tricks to this tutorial. Try adding it to your website or blog and seeing if it moves. Looking to learn to make glitter text? Try the tutorial! Click my name!
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