"Mystical Wonders Page 2"
You will need A program like WinZipTo unzip selections
For Mac users go here for a program called Zip It To Unzip the files
We Just added our gold decoration around the center of the egg. now we can add a little more if you would like to.
10) I used dizz gems dingbat and added a cute gold decoration at the top and bottom of my circle, gems also look nice here.
11) When you are satisfied with how your egg globe looks open the hidden layers and we are going to add our glass I provided you a couple of these the color one's can be colorized to match your egg.
12) Add a new raster layer, lets add selection egg2 again this should surround your center cutout. click on your glass you have chosen and go to edit copy, click on your egg to make it the active image. then click on edit, paste - into selection. When you are happy with how this looks. go to your layer palette and merge visible all layers.
13) Go to Selections and load from disk the egg selection again and invert and hit delete twice to make sure you don't have anything left outside the egg. You can tube this as it is to use again. or make a copy unmerged and change what you have on the inside layer and make more of these.
14) Open your base click on edit then copy, then click on your egg, and click edit paste as a new layer on your egg, making sure you are on the top layer first. You Now want the base to be the top layer. Using your mover tool center your egg on your base. When you are happy with this click on your layer palette, right click and merge visible.
15) Click shift + D two times to make two copies of this...
If you don't already have a folder in your documents file named Working Animations make one now.
16) Use a sparkle to make just a few sparkles on your first globe only on the glass careful not to go over the gold decoration, on the second one put a few more than on the first but make sure in different areas. Then the same on the third. I used hoods sparkle at Scale 25, Step 200
17) Now save each as Image 1, Image2, Image3, in that folder you made.
meet me in animation shop.
18) I am going to tell you what to answer to on each window that pops up ok. Click on the button under file that is the animation wizard.
Click on button same as first image, click next, now you want it to click transparent but make sure the color is white so if it is black change that . then change it to say transparent again. next, center in the frame, with the canvas color, NEXT, Repeat indefinitely, set the number to your preference, the higher the number the slower the animation, I'm trying 25 right now if it is too fast i can change it before i save it. now you want to click on NEXT, click on add image, find your working animation folder. click on image 3 hold down the shift key when you click on it and click on image 1, now they are all 3 added in order, click next, then finish.
19) Now you see all three frames, in the upper right hand corner you can see them all together in action, if you like how it looks click on file and save as, (if you don't like it you can close it and change the animation speed or go back in PSP and change where your stars are, or how many by clicking undo on either egg, and come back to animation shop.
20) Ok we like what we see now so let's save this. click on file Save AS choose a folder and name it. click save, NEXT, NEXT, now you see before on the left and after on the right, make sure no sparkles are outside of your egg or they will get a black area around them, look close, if it is ok
If you like the way it looks click next then finish.