Rain on the Diamantina the inspiration for me to make a true blue aussie tut comes from a beautiful spot in Queensland Australia a harsh land where the cattle and sheep free range many beautiful tunes have been written about the Diamantina one in particular a favourite of mine is the Rain never falls on the Dusty Diamantina written by John Williamson sung by many Fantastic Australian Singers as well as John Lee Kernaghen Redgum just a few to mention.Being a true blue Australian I had to share a little of my beautiful country with you all.To read the lyrics from this song Click HERE  Better still see if you can find a version of any of the above singers doing the song.Let me assure you but when it does rain on the Dimantina it rains LOL

Ok here we go

Supplies HERE

We are using the cool art of Popeye Wong all other elements made by me using photos from stock x change of the Diamantina. Orignal Mask made by WeeScotsLass

Lets Get Started This is a little fiddly Lol but I have everything arranged to fit into place (we hope Lol)

Open a new transparent image 550 x 550 pixels and then flood fill with white

Copy and paste the gem mask as a new layer move up from the centre to just a little way from the top of the white image we will move things as we go

Copy and paste the Gem Diamantina Image move up to almost the top of the mask layer

Copy and paste the word art 1 to the left side of the diamantina frame

Copy and paste the word art 2 to the right side of the frame

Copy and paste the word art 3 to the bottom  right side of the frame

Copy and paste the word art 4 to the bottom of left frame see my tag above for placements of them all

You may need to arrange your layers to bring the word art to the top

Copy and paste the koala into the bottom corner of the right frame

Copy and paste the Popeye tube arrange layers and bring her to the top add a drop shadow of

V 2 H-2 Opacity 60 blur 4.00 colour black

Move her up so you have enough space under her for your name and credits

Now add you are ready to font your name use any font you wish I used Gill sands ultra bold condensed with the settings of Antialias sharp stroke width 1

I used a dark brown for the foreground colour and used the pattern I cut from the tag as the fill

Add a drop shadow to your font same as your tube

Then add your credits under your name

Now if you do not wish to animate your tag is now ready to save.

Animation

Close off all layers except for white image mask image and diamond frame and your name and credits

Click on to your diamond frame up to selections select all float you will see your marching ants on the outside of the frame work go to selections modify and contract by 18

Now up to effects Eye candy 4.00 Hsb noise with the below settings

Then up to selections select none bring back all your other layers and merge flatten up to image resize by 90% smartsize all layers ticked

Edit copy and paste into animation shop as a new image

Back to psp hit your undo button until you are back to your frame with the ants marching inside then effects hsb noise and hit the random seed to a another number

Selections select none bring back your other layers merge flatten repeat resize as above

Edit copy and paste into animation shop after current frame

Back to Psp undo again back to where you have your ants marching inside up to effects hsb noise click the random seed for another number

Selections select none bring back your other layers merge flatten and resize once again

Edit copy paste into animation shop after current frame

Now Animation properties change to opaque white click ok

The view view animation and you are now ready to save as a gif file

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