Gem's Own Place

Water Ripples, or Dancing water

For this you will need Eyecandy 4000
(you can download a demo here,) and a little knowledge of animation shop!

Here is the picture I used for the tag in

the tube challenge so you have

something to practice with -

Get the tag (or picture for practice)

how you want it with your text, watermark,

and then resize to your preference.

Merge to a flattened or background layer.

On the finished tag or pic, take your lasso tool,

selection type=freehand, Mode=Add, Feather=0.

Draw around the area you want to animate,

as close to the edges as you can get.
When you have the area selected to your liking -

Duplicate your window 3 times (Shift+D).

You should now have 4 of the same images,

same selection on each one. Minimize all but one.
On the first image, go to effects,

PlugIns, Eyecandy4000, HSB Noise.

I used the following settings but you can always

experiment with the numbers to get
different results:
Hue Variation: 2
Saturation Variation: 2
Brightness Variation: 8
Opacity Variation: 0
Lump Width: 3.00
Lump Height: 3.00
Pattern: Smooth Lumps

Seamless tile - unchecked

Random seed: any (but different

number each time)

Deselect
Edit - Copy

Launch Animation shop
Edit - Paste... as new animation
Your image should come up

Go back to PSP, close the first window and

restore the second, apply the same effect,

same settings but with a different number

for random seed.

Deselect
Edit - Copy

Back to AS, Edit - Paste - after current frame

Repeat these steps with all 4 of your images.

After you have done those steps, in animation shop, slide

the bottom bar over so you can see your first

frame and click it to make it the active frame.
Up on the top tool bar, click Animation,

then Frame Properties, and set to a number of your
preference. I use 15-18 for water, depending on

the size of the photo or amount of water.

Go to View - Animation

You should have your rippling water.

Save as .gif

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You can also use this technique to animate

text, just make the lumps a bit smaller

and change the settings to a higher color

variation depending on the pattern, gradient, or color you fill

the text with.