'Cemetery Spook'

 

 

 

©rae

 

The following tutorial written by Rae for PSP versions 8 & 9

  September 20, 2005.

This tutorial is ©rae and its' supplies are not to be redistributed  at other Groups, Messageboards or through Email; translated and redistributed at other Groups, Messageboards or through Email etc.  ..  without Permission.  Nor may you copy this tutorial and claim it as your own, in any manner.

Thank You

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** Supplies Here **

*be warned - the file is large and will take some time to download..  sorry 'bout that, especially to you with Dial-up

I've saved you a lot of work by making the tag base and the smokey animation.  It wasn't my initial intention to do that, but became a choice I made for you when I realized how difficult it would be to explain it all....

.. besides, you deserve an easier tut, now and then!

So..  here we go

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Open the font 'deFaced' and minimize

1.  Open the GraveSpook tag base at Animation Shop.

2.  Open your Text Tool > Create as Vector > font-deFaced > size 72

*it will create it's own layer

 

3.  Now, we have to add a rectangle - so your dragged and dropped layers will fall into place correctly. *We'll remove it later

 

4.  Return to your grave tag base :

5.  At the 100% Text layer > Open your Smudge Tool

  

Now, pick a spot to funnel your text into

  

this is the basic plan of attack > I'll be working up these lines, from the bottom at first.. then grabbing from the top as I save the frames.

 

**as you finish your smudge > push in, as well, from outside - just to push any stray stray remnants (that you may not even be able to see but they'll fog up your animation) closer to your funnel

 

Here are each of my nine frames - create yours as we go :

    1.       

    2.   Return to your tag base

            

    3.   Undo 

           

    4.   Undo 

           

    5.   Undo 

         

    6.   Undo 

           

    7.   Undo 

           

    8.   Undo 

                  

    9.    Undo 

           

 Now, at your 12 text layers :

Save As a .psp image

6.  Return to Animation Shop

  

Then click 'Customize'  ..  don't be afraid of this! ..it's really easy :

 

Now, choose 'End' and reverse your corners :

 

You may also choose the 'Increase Points' to have more nodes to pull - which is a good option if you have a longer name or want to get really involved in your morphing.

You won't really see how cool yours turned out until you go through the next few steps to paste it and reverse back to normal and then Play It.  **if you don't like it?  'Undo' to remove the ani from your grave tag, Undo your text ani back to 12 Frames.. and try again.

Then 'Reset' at Morph to remove your previous settings..  **if you played with the Fade and Warp settings, you'll have to enter the values again

 7. Select Frame #40 > Right click > Duplicate > 5 times *watch your frame count at the bottom status bar. You'll want it to reach 54 Frames :

 

8.  Now, at your Grave Animation  (.psp image) 

Play your new creation!  If you're happy with your text placement, all you need to do before Optimizing is to

Optimize : Customize Tab

Optimization Tab

Partial Transparency Tab

 

Here's Crimson's tut-test result :