October 18, 2007

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rae

 

** Supplies Here **
 
 
 

1.  PSP ~ Open a canvas 600 X 600 = Black

       

 

 

         

 

Once your selection is filled :

         

 

 

2.  Add a New Raster layer named 'bowl'

          

 

         

 

 

 

 

3.  Highlight 'Liquid' layer :

        

 

 

         

 

          

 

 

 

 

4.  Highlight 'Merged' layer :

        

 

At same layer :

 

 

 

5.  Time to add your Name to the pot!

     

* You don't need to be concerned over placement right now..just get your letters on the layer = the black area above the pot is a good spot

** Adjust the text Size if you have a long name

*** add a Space between each letter as you enter it into your Text Window = you'll want room to Select around each when putting them into the pot

 

 

 

 

6.  Selection Tool = Rectangle :

here's mine :

 

 

Now, we'll erase at the bottom of each, to remove the hard edge and the 'outline' :

           

 

 

7.  Now..  add a couple of Eyes of Newt!

here's mine :

         

 

 

8.  Now, we'll add 'pooling' at each letter and eye :

 

Highlight the 'Merged' layer (*the bottom-most layer with the cauldron/liquid) :

Then = uncheck the 'Swap Mouse Buttons' to add a soft arc with 'Lighten' in the same way :

 

 

9.  Now it's time to add what text you like to the black area above the pot = this is how I made mine :

Text tool = hover your cursor over the center of the vector line until you see the A symbol  ..then click and enter your text

= if you want your gradient to fill each letter with the yellow and the red :

Now..if you're happy with your text :

 

 

10.  Here's how to add a simple two-tone frame :

 

 

11.  Select your Pointer tool :

Return to PSP :

AniShop :

 

 

12.  Open the 'raeCauldronBubbles' .mng file :

*Turn ON 'Onionskin     = this will give you a 'ghost effect' at your frames, so that you can guage where to place your new bubbles.  The hardest part of this is to try not to place bubbles on top of each other..and to vary the placement around the bowl, as well as the size of your bubbles throughout the frames

**Note that the Bubbles are reversed.  This is so that you'll place them into your frames = with the largest of the bubble ani first, so that you'll see best where to place it.  We'll reverse your animation later = so that the bubbles pop as they should

 

 

We'll begin with the Full-size bubbles :

Now..  Highlight Frame #2 :

Next time ..  you might select Frame #4..  and select the next 5 frames..

Etc, etc. until you've pasted your large bubble in most of the frames

**here's a tip = The selected frame will be right in front.  Use the scroll arrow and click it 5 times.  The frame right in front, now, will be the 6th and the one you need to click while holding Shift.  It's a time saver for animation-building like this :

 < click 5 times

 

 

If you are satisfied with the number and placement of your large bubbles :

**Make sure to have bubbles in the 24th frame = or it will look weird and interrupt the final animation

 

When finished with those :

Paste them in, as before..  *but this time = since they're smaller = you can add them more than once with each series of frames and into places where the larger bubbles wouldn't fit

 

Once you're finished :

Play it !  ..  If you like to add more, undo the Reverse first.

 

If you'd like to add text to above the pot  :

Crop to your satisfaction  ..  Resize if you like

 

Optimization Wizard = I had best results using Optimized Octree/Median Cut

 

 

I'd love to see how yours came out

Ü ~rae