41 - High Voltage - English

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I made it with PSP:
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Filters / Plugins:
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation: ![]()
Mock / Laser Sight: ![]()
MuRa's Meister / Clouds: ![]()
Animation Shop: ![]()

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Thank you Margit for your wonderful tubes:

Thank you Sharlimar for your wonderful tubes:


Ok, let's start:
01) File / New / 700 x 600 px / transparent
set your FGC to: light colour (#f7f3f0)
and your BGC to: dark colour (#0b0601)
Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Cloud:


02) Layers / New Raster Layer
Effects / Plugins / Mock / Laser Sight
activate your magic wand tool
select the white cross
Selections / Modify / Expand by: 3
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect
rename this layer: Constellation
03) activate your magic wand tool
select every black rectangle
Layers / New Raster Layer
Selections / Modify / Contract by: 5
flood fill selection with this gradient:
Deselect
Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise:

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel:
set opacity of this layer to: 50
rename this layer: rectangles

04) open tube: calguismistfaceg123119.pspimage
Image / Resize: 70%
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
position as shown below:

Layers / Arrange / Move down

05) activate top layer (rectangles)
open tube: MMDesignz_006189.pspimage
Image / Mirror
Image / Resize: 80%
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:
Layers / Arrange / Move down

06) activate top layer (rectangles)
open tube: Image12Parisian Pumps_LR-0_.pspimage
Image / Resize: 70%
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
0 / 0 / 100 / 20 / black

07) Layers / New Raster Layer
Selections / Select all
flood fill with your light FGC
Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect

08) open tube: Schriftzug.pspimage
layer: High weiss
Edit / Copy
minimize
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:
rename this layer: high white

09) back to tube: Schriftzug.pspimage
layer: High schwarz
Edit / Copy
minimize
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:

rename this layer: high black

10) back to tube: Schriftzug.pspimage
layer: Voltage weiss
Edit / Copy
minimize
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:

rename this layer: voltage white

10) back to tube: Schriftzug.pspimage
layer: Voltage schwarz
Edit / Copy
close it now; we don't need it anymore
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:
rename this layer: voltage black

11) Layers / New Raster Layer
add your watermark or name

12) activate layer: Constellation
Window / Duplicate (Shift + D) (three times)
minimize your copies
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:

activate layer: rectangles
activate selection tool / custom selection:
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect
hide layer: high black and voltage white

Edit / Copy merged
close it; we don't need it anymore
open Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / As new animation
back to PSP

13) activate minimized copy
layer: Constellation
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
hit Random Seed
activate layer: rectangles
activate selection tool / custom selection:
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect
hide layer: high black & voltage black
Edit / Copy merged
close it; we don't need it anymore
back to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / After Current Frame
back to PSP

14) activate minimized copy
layer: Constellation
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
hit Random Seed
activate layer: rectangles
activate selection tool / custom selection:
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect
hide layer: high white & voltage black

Edit / Copy merged
close it; we don't need it anymore
back to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / After Current Frame
back to PSP

15) activate your last minimized copy
layer: Constellation
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
hit Random Seed
activate layer: rectangles
activate selection tool / custom selection:
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect
hide layer: high white & voltage white

Edit / Copy merged
close it; we don't need it anymore
back to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / After Current Frame

16) Animation Shop
we have four animation frames now
Edit / Select all
Animation / Frame Properties: 50
Edit / Save as... *.gif

You are done!
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

Copyright tutorial: Sille
Copyright translation: Waldlichtelfe Sissy
Translation by Waldlichtelfe, April 10, 2010
