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Dive In To It
Tutorial
{{Thanks Jane of jazzl for this
tube}}
As most
of you know, I really enjoy doing animations and although I am still
learning, I have had many requests to do this tutorial, and I am
happy to share what I have learned with you...so lets get going and
make my Dive In To It....
First,
download the zip file that is attached which contains the splash
drops, pool and diver in it.
Open a
new image in PSP 500X500 and copy and paste the diver as a new layer
in it. Go to layers and duplicate the diver and X it
closed. Name your layers Diver l and diver 2. Copy and
paste the pool as a new layer to your image...also X it
closed. (we will do a placement of pool and duplicate it
later)
Now, using the
lasso tool, cut away the legs as shown in the above image and copy
and paste legs as a new image. Go back to main graphic and
delete legs from body...Deselect (so the "ants"
disappear)
Your layer
should look like above....Lasso/copy/paste as new image the motions
lives from the graphic, then delete them from the main
image.
 
As shown above
rote the two images until they look something like the ones
above.
Make a copy of
the image with the legs and paste them as a new layer on top of
diver 2. Once you have moved them around on top of the diver
and you are happy with placement of legs, merge VISIBLE diver 2 with
the legs.
As you can see
we have a big gap in our diver and will need to fill this in.
I have found using the draw tool and clone tool is the best way to
accomplish this. Below are the setting I used. You may free
hand, but I seem to have better control if I use point to
point. Be sure that you background color is closed before you
start.
After you draw
your line and clone in the rest of the bathing suit, copy and paste
the motion lines , placing them approximately as shown in the image
below.
It takes 5
divers to make this animation smooth, so with Diver 2 highlighted,
duplicate Diver 2 three times. (I always name the layers
as I make them; helps me keep them straight.)
Active all the
layer except diver 5 and move them until the placement looks similar
to above. Close all layers except Diver 4 and the pool.Before
merging Visible Diver 4 and the pool, make 4 copies of the pool
layer and X the closed.
After merging
diver 4 with the pool, Very carefully (being sure that Diver 4 is
activated) erase the upper portion of the divers body leaving
a tiny portion of the body, trunks and legs sticking our of water as
shown in above picture.....Use the softening tool with the settings
shown above to soften the water line where the diver enters the
water. You are now ready to randomly add the splash drops to
the image.
Activate Diver
5 and pool. Again place diver where only his feet are sticking
out of the water and erase the rest of his body. Again use the
smudge tool with same setting to soften water line and again
randomly add water splash drops to image.
At this point,
I visibly merge each diver with a pool, being careful not to move
any part of the images.....Be sure and rename them as you
go.....
X our (close
all the divers you should have 5) and activate the last pool.
With your favorite font, add your name where it sits in the middle
of the pool and add the splash drops. You should have
something that looks like below.
The final step
is to add a white background to each layer if you choose to. I
have found this prevents that ugly heavy black line that seems to
attach itself to the animation in animation
shop.
Be sure to
name the layers as you do this and below is the correct placement of
the layers.
You are now
ready to save your image as PSP in a folder where it is easily
located.
Open
animation. I leave the frame speed set to 20 and change what I
want later. I also resized my animation to 75% of original in
animation shop. I set frame l to 30 and frame 6 to
50.
I hope you
enjoyed this tutorial. Hopefully, if you do, I will write
more.
Pat
May
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