I created this tutorial on November 20th, 2008. If this tutorial resembles another tutorial it's purely by coincident. I created this tag in PSPX but it should be able to be done in any version. You will need Eyecandy 5 Nature to do the flames on the candles.
Supplies:
Tube of your choice I'm using the beautiful artwork of Barbara Jensen. You must own a license to use her art. You can visit Barbara at her site here and purchase her artwork and a license.
The scrapkit I'm using is called Winter Wonders. You can find this beautiful scrap kit at Annies 4 corners. You will find her here.
The mask I'm using is from essexgirl and you can download it from here. Go to masks and it's on page 26. The mask is called sg_Christmas13.
Font of your choice.
Let's Begin:
Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill white. We will resize later.
Add a new raster layer go to selections and select all. Open paper 4. Copy and paste into selection. Select none. Go up to layers down to load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find mask sg_Christmas13. Use my settings: Source luminance, fit to canvas, hide all mask, invert transparency unchecked. Merge group. Add this dropshadow to the mask layer. 1,1 56, 5.00 black.
Open frame 2 resize your frame to 500 pixels. Paste as a new layer and then resize 90% smartsize.
Grab the magic wand and click inside the frame go to selections modify, expand 5. Open paper 7. Add a new raster layer on your canvas. Paste paper 7 into selection. Don't deselect.
Open the tube your going to use. Paste as a new layer and position in the frame go up to selections down to invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. This will remove any of your tube hanging over the frame. Move your tube and paper 7 layers under your frame. Dropshadow your tube and frame with the previous settings.
Open candle 2 resize 10% smartsize. Paste as a new layer and position in the left bottom corner of your frame. Duplicate and go to image mirror. Dropshadow both candle's.
Open candle 3 resize 10%. Paste as a new layer then resize 80%.position it next to the first candle in the left bottom corner. Duplicate and mirror. Dropshadow both candles.
Open candle resize 10%. Paste as a new layer then resize 80%. Position to the left of the first candle. Duplicate, mirror and then dropshadow both candles.
Close off all your layers except for the candle layers. Go to layers down to merge and merge visible. Open all your layers back up.
Open Curly Ribbon 5. Resize 10%. Paste as a new layer and then use your deformation tool to turn it until it's barely tilted. Duplicate your ribbon and mirror it. Position them together and then dropshadow both. Merge the ribbons together then duplicate and mirror. Position them in the top corners of your frame.
Open Flower 6 resize 5% and paste onto your tag. Position on top of your curly ribbon. Duplicate and mirror position over the other set of curly ribbons. Dropshadow both flowers.
Add your proper copyrights and license number if needed.
Add your text. I used my foreground color set to #5cbca4, and my background set to #8ac4b5. Convert your text to raster layer and dropshadow.
Now to animate:
Click on your merged candle layer. Your going have to zoom in a little bit to see what your doing. Select your freehand selection tool. Set to add, point to point, feather 0, smoothing 0. Now draw around each of the wicks on your candle's. I drew little boxes around them. Once your done doing that duplicate your candle layer 2 times so you have a total of 3 candle layers. Close off the 2 duplicates and click on your original candle layer.
Go to effects, plugins and find your eyecandy 5 nature plugin in click on fire. Use my settings.
Go to settings and choose Large, candle
Then use these settings below:
Fire direction 90
Column length 21.74
Flame width 83
Expansion -8
Waver 0
Turbulence 25
Flame intensity 100
Soften edges 20
Start from bottom checked.
Click ok
Close off the first candle layer and open the candle layer above it and make sure it's highlighted. Click on fire again and hit random seed one time.
Close off your second candle layer and open the 3rd layer which is above candle 2. Make sure it's highlighted and then click on fire hit random seed one time.
Close off your third candle layer and open candle layer 1 again. Copy merged and paste as a new layer in animation shop.
Back in psp close off candle layer 1 and open candle layer 2 copy merged, in animation shop paste after current frame.
Back in psp close off candle layer 2 and open candle layer 3 copy merged, in animation shop paste after current frame.
Resize your animation 85% then view your animation. If you like the result then save as a gif. That's it your done.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
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