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Animated Birthday Card with falling Confetti
For this tutorial you will need download zip and open on your PSP desktop then export the different graphics as tubes. Right click and save to your hard drive then open up in your PSP program. Lets get started. We are constructing a card here that will consist of at least 8 or nine different "frames" for the animation. We will be making the main segments of the frames first then blending them together to create the finished animation. 1. Open new image 350 x 350 transparent. Add layer. Flood fill the background with a color of you choice. Now you can decorate the background with any design or words you would like. We used "Happy Birthday on plain white spelled out in clouds. Add layer. Use the elephant from the tube you downloaded earlier, resized to 175%. Use a perspective shadow from Eye Candy 3 with these settings.
Now you should have your front page complete. Ours looks like this.
Okay go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible and minimize page 1 on your desktop. Now on to the second page....
1. New image 350x350. Add layer. Make the background The way you would like it to look. You can use the Happy Birthday clouds in here they are included in the zip at the top. Add layer. Select your Picture tube. Change the tube to the Birthday Cake tube and tube in a cake (we included two cakes so you can choose the one you like. Position the cake in the middle towards the bottom. Add layer. Position the elephant on the right side as shown, Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply these settings.
Copy the elephant, paste as new layer, mirror, then place on the left side as shown. 2. New Layer. Copy the elephant again and reduce in size aproximately 75%. Place this layer BEHIND the larger elephant. Take this elephant that's reduced and copy, paste as new layer, mirror and place BEHIND the larger elephant as shown above. Now, we're having a party! 3. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are making a Birthday Card for Connie, so use the text as shown above. Always put each section of text on it's own layer!......... Get creative with how you fill the text or what font you use.
Now go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible and minimize this on your desktop. Now we are going to make a sealed envelope that the card will pop out of. 1. Open a new image 400x400. You can leave the background transparent if you like or you can decorate it. Grab your preset shapes tool with these settings:
Set your foreground and background color to white or whatever color or design you would like to use. Draw out a long rectangle that almost covers the lower half of your canvas. When you are happy with it go to Layers/Convert to Raster Layer. Now go to Effects/Plug Ins/ Eye Candy 3 and apply these settings. Distance =1.5 Blur= 8.50 Opacity = 95 Angle=315 Keep Original Image checked Color of the shadow you can use black or any color that sets off your graphics choose dark colors though light ones will make it look wrong. 2. Select your preset shapes again same settings and colors as before. This time draw out a rectangle covering about 3/4 of the first rectangle. 3. Now click on your object selector tool, right click on the canvas and choose node edit. Don't worry this is VERY simple! 4. Now grab the bottom left hand node and pull it into the center. Then grab the right hand one and pull it into the center overlapping the little nodes like this.
5. Now when you are happy with this then convert to a raster. Again go to Effects/Plug Ins/Eyecandy 3 and apply the same cutout you used for the first part of the envelope. 6. Now Add a new layer. You are going to add a "seal" to the front of the envelope so you can use preset shapes again or you can use a ding or whatever you like. I am using the multipointed star in the preset shapes. 7. Draw or type a seal on the point of the envelope. You can decorate your seal anyway you like. I used drew out the star and then went to Effects/Texture/Sculpture and used the default Gold settings.
8. Okay now we are ready to animate this :). Our first frame is this envelope just as it is. Now for animations I always save them in PSP format so if I need to change anything I can. So save this first picture as 1bdcard.psp. 9. Now after you have saved it. Click on the triangle part of of the envelope in your layer pallette to activate this layer. Go to Image/Flip and it will open the envelope up. Now with the seal layer go to Image Flip and then drag this layer behind the |
