A Stormy Night
Our Goal
 
 
 
Tutorial written with PSP7, it should be easily accomplished with version 6 as well. I'm not good at compressing images, this one is larger than we can send through the group, so make sure you resize or compress before sending.
 
Items needed to complete this tutorial:
JASC's PaintShop Pro-
MuRa's Meister Cloud Filter
And this zip file
 
Lets Begin!
 
 
Step 1:
Open a new transparent image 400 X 303, also open the abg-framefill.jpg and the fog_image.jpg included in the zip file.

Step 2:
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer called Frame. Flood Fill with abg-framefill.jpg. Go Selections/Load from Disk and choose abg-centerfog.sel. Hit your Delete key. Go Selections/Invert, and apply the following Inner Bevel or any other of your choosing.

Step 3:
Open the Design10.tub, resize by 50%, Go Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen. Then go Edit/Copy, go back to your working image, Go to Edit/Paste/Paste as a New Layer. Using the Move tool, move the tub into the top left corner.

Step 4:
Go Layers/Duplicate, Image/Mirror. Turn off all layers except the design layer, then go Layers/Merge Visible. Next go Layers/Duplicate, Image/Flip, align if necessary. Hide Layer 1, Go Layers/Merge Visible, rename this layer Frame.

Step 5:
Make Layer 1 active, Go to Layers/New Raster Layer called Image. Go Selections/Load from Disk and choose abg-centerfog.sel. Go Selections/Modify/Expand, Number of pixels = 10. Make the Fog_image active, Go Edit/Copy. Go back to your image, Go Edit/Paste/Into Selection. De-Select.
This is what you will have:

De-Select.

Step 6:
With the image layer active, Go to Layers/New Raster Layer called light. With your Picture Tub Tool, select the H Sparkle Yellow.tub (included in the zip), scale set to 10, and put a single sparkle in the center of the lighthouse, like so:

Step 7:
With the image layer active, Go to Layers/New Raster Layer called Clouds. Go to Effects/Plug-In Fliters/MuRa's Meister/Cloud, select the fog preset

Step 8:
a. Go Image, Resize and resize your image by 75%, make sure you have Resize all Layers and Maintain aspect ratio box checked. Next, make 3 copies of you image by pressing Shift + D key 3 times.
b. On the first image, using the Mover tool, grab the clouds layer and move it sightly down and to the left. Go Layers merge visible, save as 1.psp file.
c. On the second image, turn off the layer with the light, using the Mover tool, grab the clouds layer and move it sightly down and to the left, a little past where you moved for the first image. Go Layers merge visible, save as 2.psp file.
d. Repeat above for the last to images and save as 3.psp & 4.psp.

Step 9:
Open Jasc Animation Shop, select the Wizard Tool, Follow the Wizard through all the panels, making the following selections:
Same size as first image frame
Transparent
Upper left corner of the frame
With the Canvas Color
Yes, Repeat the Animation Indefinately
How long to display each frame 75
Add Images, in the following order 1,2,3,4
Select Finish

Your finished image should look as mine does above.

 
 
 
 
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
Alice
 

Tutorial written August 12, 2001 by ©Alices Nook.
DO NOT copy this tutorial, provide it on your site,
reword it or claim it as your own.
Thank you.