Supplies

 

Blame it on the rain

Supplies:

Paint Shop Pro
4 images, not tubes. I used the artwork of Anthony Guerra. Please do not use these unless you have a license to do so.
Animation shop
Mura meister copies
My supplies

This is a not a hard one. but it may get confusing to users that aren't familiar with a.s. or using layers. Make sure you got your soda ready, supplies and a comfy chair.

1. Open all your images and minimize all but the main one.

2. Choose a light and a dark color from your main graphic.

3. Images add borders 3 pixels light color, then add borders 3 pixels dark and then repeat the first step. so you should have 3 borders around this.

4. on the layer palette, right click and promote to layer

5. Resize this making sure you uncheck the resize all layers. Resize it to your liking.

6. Effects, mura meister copies use this setting

7. Add a raster layer. Move it to the bottom and flood fill with a color of your choice.

8. You can add any brushes or embellishments that you wish at this time. This can be as simple or as fancy as you wish.

9. Go ahead and add your copyright and and any text you wish as well.

10. merge all flatten and copy this and paste it into your open animation shop.

11. When it's pasted go ahead and duplicate the frames so you have 3 frames. this will save you a little time later in the tut.

12. Ok, now for the stamp. Get the stamp active and click in the center of it with your magic wand. Go to selections, modify, expand by 5.

13. Add three raster layers. Move these under the stamp.

14. Take your first graphic and go to the first blank layer and paste into selection or you can paste as new layer and put it in the spot you wish. Invert and hit delete on the image layer. If you don't want to do that just paste into selection and don't invert anything.

15. Do this with your next to blank layers and graphics.

16. Once you got all your images in you can close out the images. Selections, select none. Now go to your stamp layer and duplicate this layer 2 times.

17. When you do that you should have 3 stamp layers and 3 image layers. Close out the top 2 on each (2 stamp 2 images) go to the bottom layer and merge visible. Then close this off.

18. Go to the next layer and open 1 stamp and 1 image and merge visible. do the same with the last layers as well.

19. Now un hide all 3 layers and save as a pspimage and open in animation shop.

20. Now you should have 3 layers in your stamps and your main image should have 3 layers. Click on the blue bar on your stamp graphic and make sure it's the active one. Hit ctrl-a to select all the frames. then hit ctrl-c to copy them.

21. Go to your main image and click on the top bar to activate it. Hit ctrl-a to select all frames. then hit ctrl-e to paste them on your first frame. Choose where you want it and click in that spot.

22. If you did everything right you should be able to preview and it's animated and not jumpy. Now it's going to fast isn't it? Right click on your blue bar and hit frame properties. I used 50 but you can use whatever looks best to you.

23. This would be a good point to resize if necessary and then optimize and save and you are finished!

Here is another example!

Thank you for trying my tutorial. I would love to see what you have created. You can email me a resized copy so it's not any bigger than 400 wide and I'll put it in my results page. Home