Tutorial ©Jascie June 10, 2005
Artwork ©Martin Abel martinabel.com
This is an example only! Do not use his artwork without proper licensing!
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You will need these things for this tutorial:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Tube of choice
Font of choice
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Save the blinknboxes.psp to place of choice.
Open your PSP.
Open the selections file and a tube of your choice.
Pick a color from your tube,and minimize your tube for now.
Make the blinknboxes.psp active, go Shift + D and close the original for safe keeping.
Go Selections - Load/Save Seletions - Load Selection from Alpha Channel...pick the r#1 and click Load.
Flood Fill the Selection with the color from your tube.
Now Go Effects - 3DEffects - DropShadow and use these settings:
V & H 4...Opacity 100...Blur 0
Deselect.
Now repeat the above steps for the r#2 and r#3 selections.
You should now have three rectangles with dropshadows on them.
Make your tube active again and pick two colors from it, minimize once again.
Add a New Raster Layer, now go Selections - Load/Save Seletions - Load Selection from Alpha Channel...pick the b#1 and click Load.
Take Color #1 and Flood Fill the first, middle and last block selection on each line.
Take Color #2 and Flood Fill the remaining block selections.
Deselect.
Add a New Raster Layer, now go Selections - Load/Save Seletions - Load Selection from Alpha Channel...pick the b#2 and click Load.
With the Color #2, Flood Fill the 1st and 3rd block selections on each line.
With the Color #1, Flood Fill the remaining block selections.
Deselect.
Add a New Raster Layer, now go Selections - Load/Save Seletions - Load Selection from Alpha Channel...pick the b#3 and click Load.
With the Color #1, Flood Fill the 1st and 3rd block selections on each line.
With the Color #2, Flood Fill the remaining block selections.
Deselect.
Now go back to your tube click on the Tube Layer go Edit - Copy and Paste as a new layer in your psp image.
Resize as needed<br>Add drop shadow if you desire.
Now add any copyrights watermarks ect that should be on the tag.
Add your text, inner bevel and add a drop shadow if you desire.
Resize if you wish.
Now open up AS and minimize.
Go to your layers palette and hide the top two raster layers of your blocks.<br>Go Edit - Copy Merged.
Maximize AS and go Edit - Paste - Paste as New Animation.
Go back to PSP and hide the bottom block layer and unhide the middle one.
Go Edit - Copy Merged.
Maximize AS and go Edit - Paste - Paste After Current Frame.
Go back to PSP and hide the middle block layer and unhide the top one.
Go Edit - Copy Merged...Maximize AS and go Edit - Paste - Paste After Current Frame.
Now go Edit - Select All.
Then go Animation - Frame Properties and set at 20.
(I have mine saved on to a black background)
Now Save it!
Ta Da!
You're Done!
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