Materials:

You can find your materials here

The tubes are from Luzcristina, Sametra and MCC.

Thank you bunches for letting me use them.
Some images I use are group-shared. If anyone knows of the artist, please let me know.

Supplies:
Animation Shop
1 background
4 tubes
2 fonts: Tagettes and Typewriter2
Filter DSB Flux, Blast, here
Filters Unlimited 2.0, here
Filter Redfield, Ripples Magic, Demo-version here
Filter Alien Skin, Demo-version here

Take the arrow to know where you are in the tutorial.

1. File, New Image, 900 x 600 pixels transparent

2. Put the foreground color to black and the background color to white

3. Selections, Select All

4. Open the image ws_Aqua_Graphite

5. Edit, Copy and paste into selection

6. Selections, Select None

7. Effects, Plugins, DSB Flux Blast as follows

8. Effects, Plugins, Redfield Ripples Magic as follows

9. Shift + D to make a copy of the image.
Put it aside, you need it later for the background.
Let's continue with our work.

10. Open the tube MC1080

11. Image, Resize, 90%

12. Edit, Copy and paste as new layer

13. Effects, Image Effects, Offset Horizontal -30, Vertical 40

14. Reduce in your layer palette the opacity to 45%

15. Open the tube droplet

16. Edit, Copy and paste as new layer

17. Effects, Image effects, Offset Horizontal 300, Vertical -200

18. Reduce in your layer palette the opacity to 80 % and the blend mode to Luminance

19. Open the tube Man - 039

20. Image, Resize, 150%, all layers checked

21. Edit, Copy and paste as new layer

22. Effects, Image Effects, Offset Horizontal 300, Vertical 0

23. Duplicate this layer

24. Select in your layer palette the botom layer of these two layers

25. Adjust, Blur, Motion Blur, as shown on example

26. Select the upper layer

27. Layers, New Raster Layer

28. Flood fill with black

29. Image, Resize 120%, All layers not checked

30. Layer palette, Blendmode to Overlay

31. Duplicate this layer 2 times and rename these layers rain 1, rain 2 en rain 3

32. Select in your layer palette the layer rain 1

33. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Noise Filters, Add Noise, Monochrome, 210

34. Adjust, Blur, Motion Blur, 207, 80

35. Select in your layer palette the layer rain 2

36. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Noise Filters, Add Noise, Monochrome, 215

37. Adjust, Blur, Motion Blur, with the same settings

38. Select in your layer palette the layer rain 3

39. Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited, Noise Filters, Add Noise, Monochrome, 220

40. Adjust, Blur, Motion Blur, with the same settings

41. Layer palette, leave layer rain 1 visible, layers rain 2 and rain 3 invisible

42. Select the top layer in your layer palette

43. Open the tube 1344-luzchristina

44. Image, Resize, 130%, all layers checked

45. Edit, Copy and paste as new layer

46. Effects, Image Effects, Offset Horizontal -240, Vertical -35

47. Layers, New Raster Layer

48. Selections, Select All

49. Selections, Modify, Select Selection Borders

50. Zoom in and flood fill this selection with white

51. Selections, Select None

52. Lock your foreground color

53. Activate the text tool, choose the font Tagettes, Size 50 pixels, Bold

54. Type your text ‘I’m gonna rain on your parade’ and put it as shown on example.

55. Effects, 3D-Effects, Drop Shadow, as follows: 5, 5, 50, 3

56. Layers, New Vector Layer

57. Swap foreground / background color. Foreground color is still locked.

58. Activate the text tool again, choose the font Typewriter2 , size 20 pixels

59. Type your text and place this text below the first text.

60. Layer palette, reduce the opacity to 60 %

61. Layers, Convert to raster layer

62. Layers, Duplicate

63. Put this text as shown on example just above the first text.

64. Layer palette, reduce the opacity to 75 %

65. Duplicate this layer once more

66. Put this text as shown on example just above the previous text.

67. Layer palette, Opacity 100 %

68. Layers, Merge, Merge Down

69. Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact, Gradient glow, Basic as follows

70. Image, Resize, 90%, All layers checked

71. Now, we will prepare our animation. Edit, Copy Special, Copy Merged

72. Open the saved background (see step 9)

73. Layers, New Raster Layer

74. Put your signature

75. Layer palette, Select the bottom layer

76. Edit, Paste as New Layer

77. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

78. Save as PSP Animation Shop file (*.psp) and name it animation 1

79. Edit, Undo
Repeat once more so that you have your background with your signature left.

80. Return to your original work, lock in your layer palette layer rain 1 en open layer rain 2

81. Edit, Copy Special, Copy Merged

82. Paste as new layer on your background

83. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

84. Save as PSP Animation Shop file (*.psp) and name it animation 2

85. Edit, Undo
Repeat once more so that you have your background with your signature left.

86. Return to your original work, lock in your layer palette layer rain 2 en open layer rain 3

87. Edit, Copy Special, Copy Merged

88. Paste as new layer on your background

89. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

90. Save as PSP Animation Shop file (*.psp) and name it animation 3

Now we'll make the animation

91. Start Animation Shop and open animation 3 (File, Open)

92. Add the other animations

93. View, Animation to see the animation

94. Save as gif.

This is an extra example made by An Creatief

Lesson Rain on your parade was written on August 31, 2009

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