Shell's Tutorials

Floatie

Open the floatie in Animation Shop. Click on frame 1 to select it then go to Edit > Copy

Open PSP. Go to Edit > Paste > As New Image

Go back to Animation Shop. Click on frame 2 to select it. Go to Edit > Copy.

Go back to PSP. Go to Edit > Paste > As New Image. Keep doing this until you've copied and pasted all the frames from the floatie, into PSP. it might help you at this point to save these images as psp files, to a folder of your choice and give them names, for example, floatie 1, floatie 2 etc. This is so that when you come to find them in the Patterns box, you'll know which order to choose them.

Open a new canvas.

Set your foreground colour to #fc83a4

Set your background colour to #ffe6ec

Click on your text tool and use the settings in the screenshot. Click on the new canvas and type the text in the text entry box. Click ok.

Keep the marching ants on the text and go to Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout and use the settings in the tutorial. The shadow colour is #fc83a4

This is what you should have. Press shift and d on your keyboard to duplicate the canvas. Keep doing this until you have the same number of canvases as the floatie had frames....if you're using the same floatie as I used, it has 4 frames so you need 4 canvases with your text on. Don't move the text on any of the canvases or the animation won't work properly. You'll get jumping text when you put the animation together!

Go to the foreground materials window and click on it. When the material properties open, select Pattern and click on the drop down arrow at the side of the window. Select the first floatie. Mines only called Image51 because it was the 51st image to be opened in PSP. Yours will be called something different....this is where it helps if you save the frames with your own naming system as I mentioned before ;)

Flood fill the text on one of the canvases.

Click on the copy icon or go to Edit > Copy

Go to Animation Shop and click on the 'Paste As New Animation' icon

Back in PSP....close the canvas you just flood filled. Go to the materials palette and select the next floatie pattern.

Click on the copy icon

Go to Animation Shop and click on the 'Paste After Current' icon. Go back to PSP. Close the canvas you just flood filled then go to the materials palette and select the next floatie pattern. Flood fill the next canvas. Click on the copy icon then go to Animation Shop and click on the 'Paste As New Animation' icon. Go back to PSP and close the canvas you just flood filled. Repeat for the last canvas, making sure you select the next floatie pattern.

Now to make a frame for your name! Open a new image, big enough to support your text.

Flood fill with the light pink

Go to Image > Add Borders and use the settings in the screenshot.

Use the magic wand to select the border. Flood fill it with the dark pink then add an Inner Bevel by going to Effects > 3d Effects > Inner Bevel. When you've added the inner bevel, go to Selections > Select None. Now click on the copy icon. Go to Animation Shop and click on the Paste As New Animation icon.

Click on the 'Duplicate Frames' icon. We need to make the same amount of frames as the text.

If you can't get the exact number of frames, click on each extra frame then click on the Delete Frames icon.

Click on the text canvas and press ctrl and a then ctrl and c to copy the text frames. Now click on the frame canvas and press ctrl and a then ctrl and e to paste the text onto the frame. As soon as the text appears, click once to position it. This will ensure the text is in the middle of the frame.

Save and you're done :o)