Tutorial Created May2005 Updated July 2007

 © 2005 2007 Alicorn

Sparkly Veil Tag

 [Part 3]

~~~ The Sparklies ~~~

In your 'Layer' palette, right click on the 'Background' layer and select 'Duplicate', right click on the copy and select 'Duplicate' again. You now have 3 layers.

'X' out the top two layers by clicking on the 'eye' at the end of each row, click on the bottom layer to activate [turns blue]

Select the 'Freehand Selection Tool'.......

and set the the 'Selection type'  to 'Freehand' .......set the 'Mode'  to 'Add (Shift)' .

(NB.This saves having to hold down the shift key while drawing with the tool when you want to select more than one area)

Draw around the areas of the net which you want to select to add the sparklies to, they will be surrounded by 'Marching Ants'

Go to 'Effects' 'Plugins' 'VM Natural' 'Sparkle' and apply these settings and 'OK'.......

and you'll have sparklies on your graphic :-)

In the 'Layer' palette, 'X' out the 'Background' layer and 'un X' the next layer, clicking on it to activate.

Go to 'Effects' 'Plugins' 'VM Natural' ' Sparkle' again. Your settings will show the same as before,

 so slide the 'Random Seed' slider to any number and 'OK'. Altering the 'Random Seed' setting alters the positioning of the next set of sparklies.

In the 'Layer' palette 'X' out that layer and 'un X' the top layer and click on it to activate.

 Go to 'Effects' 'Plugins' 'VM Natural' 'Sparkle' again and alter the 'Random Seed' once more, and 'OK'

'Selections' 'Select None' to deselect.

'Un X' all three layers.

~~~ Now to Animate ~~~

Go to 'File' 'Jasc Software Products' 'Launch Animation Shop'

You will still have your PSP down on your taskbar at the bottom of your screen so click on its tab to bring it back up.

In your 'Layer' palette, click on the bottom layer to highlight, click on 'Edit' 'Copy'

Click on the 'Animation Shop' tab down on your taskbar to bring up Animation Shop and click on 'Edit' 'Paste as New Animation'.

Click back onto your PSP tab, click on the next layer up in your 'Layer' palette, click 'Edit' 'Copy'

Click onto Animation Shop and 'Edit' 'Paste' 'After Current Frame'

Back in PSP, click on the last layer in your 'Layer' palette, 'Edit' 'Copy'......over to Animation Shop and click 'Edit' 'Paste' 'After Current Frame'.

Click on the 'Animation Icon'   to see your animation then go to 'File' 'Save As'...

type in a name for your animation and save as a 'CompuServe Graphics Interchange [*.gif]

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