©Alicia's Place FBN Challenge

This Tutorial is my result of a Challenge presented to us by an Awesome Graphics Group I am Very Proud to be a member of.

The Group - FlyByNight Thank You Donna for presenting the Challenge.

For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro 7 and this zip file Unzip the D_Gold Fold into your PSP Pattern folder and open the images in your PSP window.

1. Open your Autumn picture and duplicate (Shift D) minimize the original.

2. Go to Effects>Texture Effects>Mosaic-Glass with the following settings and apply 2 times.

Go to Image>Flip.

3. Add a new layer and flood fill with the gold pattern

4. Go to Masks>New>From Image and choose Maskara: Source Luminance and Invert Mask data checked, go to Masks>Delete and click Yes. Using your Magic Wand with Feather and Tolerance "0" click inside the Mask and go to Selections>Modify>Expand 2 and save this selection to Alpha Channel, deselect, add a drop shadow: Color "Black", Vertical "1", Horizontal "-1", Opacity "100" and Blur "5.9". Go to Effects>Sharpen>Sharpen.

4a. For PSP 8 or 9, go to Layers>New Mask Layer>From Image and use the following settings:

Right click on the Mask Layer, click on "Delete" and click Yes

5. Go back to your Background layer and add a new layer, go to Selections>Load from Alpha Channel and click OK on the selection you just saved, open the autumn image and copy and paste "Into" Selection. Layers>Merge>Merge All.

6. Go to Selections>Select All, Selections>Modify>Contract "3", Selections>Invert and flood fill with the gold pattern, go to Selections>Invert, Selections>Float and apply the following Cutout:

Apply the Cutout again but this time change Vertical and Horizontal to -3, deselect. Sign your image. Go to Selections>Load from Alpha Channel and load the Selection you saved on step 4.

7. Add 3 new layers and with the Picture Tube Tool select the Autumn Leaves at Scale 25 and apply about 8 leaves on each layer (NOT ON THE BACKGROUND LAYER)

8. Highlight Layer 1 and turn off visibility of layer 2 and layer 3, merge visible

9. Go to File>Save Copy As and save number 1 in jpg format, go to Edit>Undo Merge Layers, turn off visibility of Layer 1 and Turn on visibility of Layer 2, make sure you are on Layer 2, merge visible and "Save Copy As" and save number 2 in jpg format (make sure you are not saving with the same name or number) go to Edit>Undo Merge Layers, turn off visibility of Layer 2 and Turn on visibility of Layer 3, make sure you are on Layer 3, merge visible and "Save Copy As" and save number 3 in jpg format. Now you can close your image.

10. Open Animation Shop and go to File>Animation Wizard, Click on "Same size as the first image frame" and then "Next"; "Transparent", Next; "Upper left corner of the frame" and "With the canvas color", Next; "Yes, repeat the animation indefinitely" and on time change to "18", Next; Add Image and Browse for the file where you have your images saved, add your 3 images and click "Next" and then "Finish"

11. Go to View>Animation, go to File>Save As, name your animation and Save, I left mine on "Better Image Quality", click Next, Next and Finish and your Animation is ready.

NOTE: If you want to change the time you can right click on each frame and go to Frame Properties.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions or comments please email me

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