HHR_PSPXBlinkie

Blinkie PSPX

Can be done in any version

You will need:-

PSPX

Animation Shop

A Font of your choice. You can download a font from the net and save to a folder on your pc or use one already in your psp program. If you are using a downloaded one,open the font file and leave it onscreen or reduce it to your taskbar. While its open it will show in the 'Fonts' menu when you come to use the 'Text Tool'

Picture tubes of your choice for decoration , you can download from tube sites on the net and save to your pc, or you can use ones already in your psp programme.

The Fairy tube used in this tutorial is from Tubes by Amanda,

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Go to 'File' 'New' and open a New Image, transparent, 300 x 300 pixels.

In the 'Materials' palette, click on the coloured square of the 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box to open 'Materials Properties' 'Style' box and select a colour for your blinkie.

Using the 'Floodfill Tool' click on your image to floodfill.

Go to 'Layers' and 'New Raster Layer' and 'OK'

Change the colour in the 'Materials' palette 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box to a different colour for the outline of your blinkie.Ive chosen black.

Select the 'Rectangle' tool .....

and set your settings to these.

In the 'Materials' palette set the 'Background and Fill Properties' box to 'Transparent'

Draw a rectangle.

Draw another rectangle inside the first.

Use 'Edit' 'Undo Create New Rectangle' if you make a mistake and redo

Go to 'Layers' 'New Raster layer'

Click on the 'Picture Tube Tool' and click on the little preview to open the tubes menu.

Click on a picture tube you'd like to use to decorate your blinkie .

It will appear in the preview box. Reduce the scale of your picture tube, and click on your image to place it.

Use the 'Move Tool' to reposition it.

Resizing/altering an image can make the image blurry so go to 'Adjust' 'Sharpness' 'Sharpen'

Add more new layers and picture tubes if you want more decoration.

Now to add text........go to 'Layers' 'New Raster Layer'

In the 'Materials' palette 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box, select a colour for the outline of your text.

In the 'Background and Fill Properties' box click on the 'Transparent' icon to remove the transparency,

Click on the colour which appears in that box to open the menu and select a colour for the fill of the text. If you want to colour co-ordinate your text with your image,when you are choosing from the palette your cursor changes to that of a dropper tool.....if you run the tool over your image you can select a colour from your picture

Click on the 'Text Tool'

Select your 'Font' from the drop down menu, select a size, set the 'Stroke Width' to '1.0' and 'Floating'.

Click on your image, this will open the 'Text Entry' box, type in your text and 'Apply'

Your text will appear on your image with 'Marching Ants' round it.

Hold your mouse over the text until the cursor changes to crossed arrows, then you can drag the text into position.

'Selections' 'Select None' to deselect [removes marching ants].

When you have your image as you want it,go to 'Layers' 'Merge' 'Merge Visible' which puts all your layers onto the one 'Merged' layer.

In the 'Layer palette, right click on 'Merged' and select 'Duplicate'.

'X' out the 'Copy of Merged' layer by clicking on the little 'eye'.

Click on the 'Merged' layer to activate.[turns blue].

Go to 'View' 'Grid'

Select the 'Paintbrush Tool'

and with the settings set to 'Shape' square.. 'Size 5'.. 'Hardness 50'.....

..... place a dot at regular intervals around the edge of the blinkie between your two rectangles.

You might find the 'Zoom Tool' handy to do this. Click a couple ofleft clicks on your image to zoom in, a couple of right clicks to zoom out.

If you misplace a dot, go to 'Edit' 'Undo Paintbrush' and redo.

Continue all the way round your image.

When you have done that, un'X' the eye of the 'Copy of Merged' layer and click on the layer to activate.

Slide the 'Opacity' down to about 80. This allows the layer underneath to show through and youll be able to see where you put the initial dots.

With the 'Paintbrush Tool' place dots in the alternate spaces.

When youve gone all the way round, slide the 'Opacity' back up to '100'

Go to 'View' 'Grid' and click on 'Grid' it to remove it.

Open Animation Shop.

Back in PSP, click on your 'Merged' layer to activate, go to 'Edit' 'Copy'

Over in Animation Shop, click on 'Edit' 'Paste' 'As New Animation'

Go back to PSP, click on the second layer to activate, go to 'Edit' 'Copy'.....over in Animation Shop click on 'Edit' and

this time 'Paste After Current Frame'.

Click on the 'View Animation' icon to see your animation.

Click on it again to close the animation.

Using the 'Crop Tool', draw it round your image, then click 'Crop'

Go to 'File' 'Save As' ...type a name for your file and save as a 'CompuServe Graphics Interchange (*.gif)

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Revised 2007