dimanche 20 avril 2025

Paint Shop Pro - and - Animation Shop - My tutorials - Little Mermaid

 PAINT SHOP PRO AND ANIMATION SHOP

MY TUTORIALS

LITTLE MERMAID


Bubbles effect

This tutorial was inspired by another tutorial made a long time ago by Titoune called 'Beauty's Kingdom' and translated in italian by Pinuccia here, yet unfortunately, this specific tutorial is unavailable in english.
That aside, I want to thank Pinuccia for all her translations of Titoune's tutorials and thereby, avoiding that those tutorials disappear into the clouds and become unavailable anymore.

To realize it, I have used a beautiful kit by Linda's site 'My Tagging Addiction'  called 'Tales of the Deep Blue Sea'.  You will also need Simone's animation 'SimoneAni371'.
All her animations are in her site 'Scrappy Bit of Fun' as well as her tutorials for Animation Shop fans!!  You can use any other kit or images that you like, of course.  You will need Animation Shop for either the bubble version or the tropical ocean waves. It is a different animated version of this Little Mermaid as you can see:

Waves effect


I have made this tutorial with PSPX on March 21, 2025, and
tested/corrected it on April 14, 2025.
Thank you to respect my work and the other creators work.
Don’t hesitate to write to me here if you have any trouble with this tutorial and I’ll try to help as best as I can.

Decompress the zipped files, open the files and save them somewhere in your PSP folder where you will find them later on.  Make duplicates of your images to preserve originals. 
Save your work often as pspimage with all your layers just
in case your PSP crashes!!

If you use your own images, some steps, like the offsets, could need different settings.

Materials
Scrapkit from Linda
SimoneAni371.gif 
Background image made by me with Bing's Image Creator

1
Open a new transparent image of 800 x 600 px
Selections - Select all

2
Select one of the images 'background' furnished in the Materials
Back to your work, Paste it into the selection
Layers - Duplicate
(keep the selection active)

On the duplicate (top layer)
Selections - Modify - Contract 50 px
Selections - Invert
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur


3
Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 7



4
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Chisel with color #1b589c

Keep selected

5
Layers - Duplicate
(now, we have 2 layers of the border)
On this duplicate layer (the 2nd border of 50 px)
Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout with color #6699cc

Selections - Select none

6
We have these layers:


7
Highlight the bottom layer
Layers - Duplicate
On the duplicate, Effects - Geometric effects - Circle


8
On the circle layer, Image - Resize at 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
You now have these layers:

9
On the circle layer
Effects - 3D effects 5 / 5 / 50 / 20 with color black

Repeat the drop shaddow effect with the negative settings
Layers - Merge visible

10
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer 'image 5' (bubbles)
Image - Resize at 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Image effects - Offset

Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer 'element 21' (anchor)
Image - Resize at 50% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Image effects - Offset

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact 5 - Perspective shadow

11
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer 'element 4' (mermaid)
Image - Resize at 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact 5 - Perspective shadow, same settings

12
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer 'element 38' (aquatic plant)
Image - Resize at 50% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before but color #113947

I think there are enough elements in this image; feel free to select whatever elements for the completion of your under the sea image. 

When you are satisfied, you can add text if you like, then sign your image before saving it.

If you want to animate it, like I did, save it as a psp image.
In step 13, you will obtain the image with the Bubbles and
in step 14, you will obtain the image with the Waves effect.

13 - Bubbles effect
Open your Animation Shop
Open your image just saved as a jpg or as a psp image as a new animation
Animation - Resize animation to 80%
Select Frame 1, Copy it and Paste it after current frame
Repeat this in order to obtain a total of 24 identical frames

Open 'SimoneAni371'
Edit - Select all,  Edit - Copy
Back to your image with the mermaid, you should have 24 frames
Highlight Frame 1 - Edit - Select all
Edit - Paste into selected frames and click about where you see the bubble in the red oval in the screenshot below:

Click on the Cinema icon  to see the animation and if you like it, add your watermark in the same way, using the Propagate Paste icon and clicking in the "Paste into selected Frame' icon.  Save your result as a gif.

14 - Waves effect
Open your Animation Shop
Open your image just saved as a jpg or as a psp as a new animation
Animation - Resize animation to 80%
Effects - Insert image effect
Select Animation Frame and in the Effect, select Underwater
In Define effect, enter the following settings:
Effect length at 1.1 secs
Frames per second at 7
Then click on Customize

When you do, the image below will come up; here are the explanations of this image:
1- The Vector area (inside the red square):  here, we make the wave vectors (looks like a star with many rays) we pull a line from the center going outward.
for the wave that I used in this tutorial, there are 12 lines and any line can be deleted by extending it outside of the grey square. Try to be as precise as you can but when you are done, do not pass on the Vector area as it will change your settings; you can play with these vectors, adding or removing them and trying other wave effects.
2- The Effects zone: check 'Apply sunlight dappling' and set 'Sunlight intensity' at 10
3- In Liquid properties, Set 'Water depth' at 30
4- In the Waves zone: set the Wave at 1, X at 30 and Y at 30,
then, hit your Enter key (so that you don't pass over the Vector area)

You obtain an animation with 8 frames but frame 1 has no effect on it so delete frame 1. You can admire your beautiful wave effect by clicking on the Cinema icon. Don't forget to add your watermark in your result and save your result as a gif.

Here is another example with the Underwater effect:


I truly hope that you enjoyed doing this tutorial and that making waves and bubbles will inspire you for other beautiful creations!! Send me your result here and I will be honoured to add them in this page, below.

jeudi 17 avril 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Noël (valyscrappassion)

 PAINT SHOP PRO

MY TRANSLATIONS

NOËL


This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as valyscrappassion.com. You can find the original here. Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence. It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their names or take off the watermarks, to present them on your sites or blog, to share them in groups, to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Valérie’s work and other artwork creators'work
mentioned in the original tutorial. Don’t hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this translation and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me hereValérie made this tutorial on October 25, 2019.  I have used PSPX5 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.


Decompress the Materials zip file, open the tubes and images and make duplicates, never work on the originals, you could need them intact later on if you encounter some problems with your PSP. For the selections, gradients, brushes etc, save them in your 'My PSP files' under their appropriate folder.

 
Materials
1 alpha channel layer
2 fonts
2 presets
2 masks by Narah
1 mask by LF
5 personal tubes in png and psp

Plugins
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact
AP[Distort], Distort-WavyCity and Distort-Waved
In Filters Unlimited 2.0:
Buttons & Frames, Rectangular Button
Graphics Plus, Cross Shadow
It@lian Editors Effect, Effetto Fantasma
VM Extravaganza, Heightline
VM Natural, Sparkle

Colors
Foreground color 1 #90ba26
Background color 2 #ffffff
Additional color black

Preparation
Open the tubes - make duplicates and close the originals.
Double-click on the presets and they will install themselves.
Open the masks and minimize until requested.

1
Create your Materials palette with Foreground color 1 #90ba26 and Background color 2 #ffffff
Prepare a Radial gradient with the following settings:

Open the image 'Alpha-Noel2019-VSP'
Window – Duplicate (or use Shift+D shortcut)
Close the original file, we will be working on the duplicate.
Flood Flood fill with the gradient
Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Plugins - AP [Distort] – Distort – WavyCity with these settings:


Effects – Plugins - AP [Distort] – Distort – Waved

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Graphics Plus – Cross Shadow with these settings

Layers – Properties – Blend Mode at Multiply and Opacity at 69%
Layers – Merge – Merge Visible
Effects – Edge effects – Enhance

2
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Buttons & Frames – Rectangular Button

Effects – Image effects – Seamless tiling

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – It@lian Editors Effect – Effetto Fantasma

3
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill in color 2 #ffffff
Layers – New mask layer – From Image 'LF-Mask-118'

Effects – Edge effects – Enhance
Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Plugins Alien Skin – Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow
Select the preset 'Shadow1-Noel2019-VSP'

Or enter the settings manually

Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

4
Selections – Load/Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel
and select 'Sélection #1'

Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – VM Natural – Sparkle


Selections – Select None

5
Open the tube 'NoelVSP66' – Delete the Watermark - Back to your image
Copy/Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Resize with 75% – uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Activate the Pick Tool - Mode Scale: Position X 578 and Position Y -31

Type any other key to close the Pick Tool
Effects – Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective Shadow
Select the preset 'Shadow2-Noel2019-VSP'

Or enter the settings manually

6
Open the tube 'NoelVSP17bis' – Delete the Watermark – Back to your image
Copy – Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Resize with 75% – Uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Activate the Pick Tool - Mode Scale with Position X 278 and Position Y -1

Type M to Close the Pick Tool

7
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Resize – Resize at 75% - Uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Activate the Pick Tool - Mode Scale with Position X 420 and Position Y -1

Type M to Close the Pick Tool

8
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Resize – Resize with 75% - Uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Activate the Pick Tool - Mode Scale with Position X 215 and Position Y -4

Type M to Close the Pick Tool

9
Layers – Merge – Merge down twice
Effects – Plugins Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective Shadow
and select the preset 'Shadow2-Noel2019-VSP' as before

The layers palette now looks like this:

Your work looks like this:

10
Highlight your bottom layer
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill in the color 2 #ffffff
Layers – New mask layer – From Image and select 'Narah_mask_0295'

Effects – Edge effects – Enhance More
Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Image effects – Offset Horizontal 0  and Vertical -110

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror
Image – Flip
Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Effects – Image effects – Offset Horizontal 0 and Vertical -30

11
Highlight the top layer
Open the tube 'Titre-Noel2019-VSP'
Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Activate the Pick Tool - Mode Scale with Position X -35 and Position Y 213

Type any key to close the Pick Tool

12
Effects – 3D effects – Drop Shadow 4 / 4 / 100 / 0  with color 1 #90ba26
and 'Shadow on new layer' checked
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0. – Graphics Plus – Cross Shadow


Highlight the top layer
Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – VM Extravaganza – Heightline
with default settings

Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize / 55 / 129 or colorize to your own colors

13
Open the tube 'Deco1-Noel2019-VSP' – Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
If necessary colorize the tube
Effects – Image effects – Offset Horizontal 15 and Vertical -27

14
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill in color 2 #ffffff
Layers – New mask layer – From Image and select 'Narah_mask_0766'

Layers – Merge – Merge Group

15
Image – Add symmetric borders of 1 pixel color 1 #90ba26
then, 30 pixels color 2 #ffffff
and 1 pixel  color 1 #90ba26
Selections – Select All
Image – Add symmetric borders of 40 pixels color 1 #90ba26
Selections – Invert
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise


Selections – Invert
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / 0 / 35 / 25 with black - Uncheck 'Shadow on new layer'

16
Selections – Select All
Image – Add symmetric borders of 40 pixels color 2 #ffffff
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow 0 / 0 / 35 / 25 with black
Selections – Select None

17
Open the tube 'Deco2-Noel2019-VSP' – Copy/Paste as new layer
If necessary colorize the tube

18
Image – Add symmetric borders of 1 pixel color 1 #90ba26
Image – Resize – Resize to 800 pixels width
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

19
Sign your work. Merge All
Save as a jpeg or File - Export - As an optimized jpeg

We are done!  I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial. Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives from all over the world and she loves to see your creations and include them in her gallery. Click here to send yours!!

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