Strange Little World

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For this tutorial you will need the materials in the zip file below.

Thanks go to Evatexas and PamelaD of Arasimages for their tubes used in this tutorial.


Unzip the materials into a working folder you have created on your desktop named Strange Little World. Please duplicate and close original tubes. Use the copies for your work so you will not lose the originals. Place ArasimagesSLWHalfCircle Selection in your PSP Files/Selections folder. Export the Smoke-5 brush into your PSP Files/Brushes folder. I have used the plugins Simple/4 Way Average, Visros4/Box, MV'S Plugins/PanoWarp, Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow and effects of PSP in this tutorial. It is assumed you have a working knowledge of PSP to follow these directions. I have used PSPX8 for this tutorial but other versions may be used. To work this tutorial, it is assumed you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

Use the little mouse below to mark your place along the way.

1. In Materials Palette, set Foreground to #443d2e, Background to #8ca18c. Create a Gradient using these colors, Gradient Corel_06_029 (foreground/background), Style Sunburst, Angle 0, Repeats 0, Invert checked, Center Points/ Focal Points all set to 50

2. New/New Image 850px by 800px. Flood fill with Gradient.

3. Open TrollCourtyard.pspimage. Copy Misted layer/Paste as New Layer.

4. Image/Resize/Resize by 80%/Resize all layers unchecked.

5. Pull upward and toward right side so clock is left of center of image.

6. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

7. Duplicate. Image/Mirror. Pull toward left so clock fits over first layer of TrollCourtyard image clock.

8. Merge/Merge Down.

9. Layers/New Raster Layer.

10. Selections/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection from Disk. From the Selection drop down, choose ArasimagesSLWHalfCircle. Load.

11. Flood fill Selection with color #aeb4a8. Deselect.

12. Effects/Simple/4 Way Average.

13. Effects/Texture Effects/Texture. Choose Asphalt with settings below.

14. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.

15. Drop Opacity down to 62.

16. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -12, Horizontal -22, Opacity 50, Blur 22, color #000000.

17. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 12, Horizontal 22, Opacity 50, Blur 22, color #000000.

18. Layers/New Raster Layer.

19. Flood fill with Gradient.

20. Effects/Vizros 4/Box.

21. Start by setting the Dimensions to 326 in X, Y and Z. Click on Settings for X Page, Image ticked, Opaque set to 255.

22. Click Settings for Y Page, leave all other settings as they are.

23. Click Settings for Z Page like you did for Y Page, leave all other settings as they are.

24. Click Settings for Background Page. Solid will be checked and Opaque set to 0. Click OK.

25. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -12, Horizontal -22, Opacity 40, Blur 22, color #000000.

26. Move box to bottom so part of it is showing.

27. Duplicate. Image/Resize/Resize by 68%/Resize all layers unchecked.

28. Move to left side of larger box.

29. Open Tube_242.pspimage. Copy/Paste as New Layer.

30. Image/Mirror. Image/Resize/Resize by 38%%/Resize all layers unchecked.

31. Using Color Changer tool, using color #8ca18c in background of color palette, right click on stem to change color.

32. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -12, Horizontal -22, Opacity 40, Blur 22, color #000000.

33. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

34. Move frogs on the stem so they are over the smaller box.

35. Layers/New Raster Layer.

36. From Tool bar, select the Paint Brush tool. Find Smoke 5 brush. Set it to the settings below. Change Background color to #fefefe. Right click at the top of image and again half way to the left.

37. Lower Opacity down to 66.

38. Open Doll_1.pspimage. Copy TUBE layer/Paste as New Layer.

39. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 12, Horizontal -22, Opacity 50, Blur 22, color #000000. Repeat.

40. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

41. Move Doll toward bottom right corner so he sits on the large box.

42. Open Tube_259.pspimage. Copy TUBE layer/Paste as New Layer.

43. Image/Resize/Resize by 50%, Resize all layers unchecked.

44. Image/Mirror. Place mouse hanging in upper right corner.

45. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

46. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 12, Horizontal -22, Opacity 50, Blur 22, color #000000. Repeat.

47. Duplicate mouse. Image/Mirror. Image/Resize by 45%.

48. Place mouse so he is hanging from post by well on left side.

49. Image/Add Borders/Add 2px borders, color #fefefe, Symmetric checked.

50. Image/Canvas Size. Change as seen below. Use color #443d2e.

51. Effects/MV's/PanoWarp. Click on Source Cyl. Perspective.

52. Using Magic Wand, click within the dark border.

53. In Materials Palette, use original Gradient, Style Linear, Angle 45, Repeats 3, Invert checked, Center and Focal Points null.

54. Layer/New Raster Layer. Flood fill with above gradient.

55. Effects/Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow.

56. Selections/Invert.

57. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 10, Horizontal 10, Opacity 50, blur 15, color #000000.

58. Selections/Select None.

59. Image/Add Borders/Add 2px border, color #fefefe, Symmetric checked.

60. Layers/New Raster Layer.

61. Effects/Artistic Effects/Balls and Bubbles.

62. Using Eraser tool, erase the bubbles as indicated below. I set Eraser to Size 71, all other settings at default.

63. Lower Opacity down to 62. Close off bottom layer. Make sure you have top layer highlighted and open.

64. File/Save As/name the bubble layer you are saving as Bubbles and save in your working folder as PSP Animation Shop (*psp) file.

65. On main image, close off top layer of bubbles. Open bottom layer.

66. Add your name if you wish on a new layer. Merge/Merge Visible.

67. File/Save As/Save your image as a .jpg named Strange Little World.

68. Open Animation Shop. File/Open. Open the Strange Little World .jpg.

69. Duplicate the image so you have 36 frames. Highlight the first frame/Edit/Select All.

70. Open Bubbles. PSP Animation Shop (*psp) image. Click on Effects/Insert Image Effects. Use the settings below to create your bubble animation.

71. Click on first frame. Edit/Select All. Copy.

72. Go back to the first frame of the Strange Little World image. Right click in first frame. Paste/Into Selected Frame. Left click bubbles into place.

73. Click on Animation/Frame Properties and set speed to 15 for a slower movement of bubbles.

74. Click on View Animation to check your work. If you are satisfied, then we will save your work.

75. File/Save As. When the box appears, give your work a name, select where it will be saved and leave .gif type as is. Click Save.

76. As the boxes appear, keep clicking on Next, Next, Next and Finish.

77. You are all finished!

This tutorial was tested by PamelaD and Evatexas. Thanks ladies!

If you are going to use this tutorial for stationery, cards or place the tutorial/tag on another site, I would appreciate you contacting me for permission, giving Arasimages credit for the original tutorial and if possible, a link back to my site. Thank you.


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