Moving Pictures

This tutorial was done using PSP 8 and Animation shop. You will need a good working knowledge of both to complete this tutorial.

Supplies

4-6 Images of your choice
1 Tube of your choice
(Images and tubes should be of the same artist)
Polaroid Tubes HERE
(If these Polaroid tubes belong to you please let me know so that I can give you proper credit or remove them if you wish)
Font of your choice
(Mine is a pay font so I can not supply it for you)

I am using the wonderful artwork of Jessica Galbreth, Vicki Yeager, Anthony Guerra and Johnnie Grez.
Please visit CILM to purchase licenses to use their work. Please do not use their work without purchasing a license first.

I have supplied results using all 4 of the Polaroid tubes supplied. Please see below for the other examples

Lets get started:
1). Open all images, tube and Polaroid of your choice
2). Open a 450*450 image with a white background
3). Copy and paste the Polaroid tube as a new layer on your canvas
4). Add a drop shadow with the following settings:
V: 1
H: -1
Opacity: 50
Blur: 2.00
Color: Black
Repeat the drop shadow except change the V to -1 and the H to 1
5). Position where you want it
6). Make sure your Polaroid layer is selected and click inside one of the black squares(if you are using one with multiple squares). You should now have marching ants around the inside of the Polaroid
7). Choose the image you want to use first. Copy and paste the image as a new layer.
8). When you have it positioned where you want it go to
Selections-Invert and press delete once
Then Deselect
9). Repeat steps 6-8 for each Polaroid (if you are using one of the ones with multiple pictures)
10). Hide all your image layers so that only your background and Polaroid layers are showing
11). Repeat steps 6-8 again for each of the remaining images

This part can be done several ways:

First Method:

If you are using the single Polaroid, duplicate the Polaroid layer and the background layer to match the number of images you have. Once you have that done X out all of the images, Polaroid and background layers except the first one. Merge visible and then X out that layer. Repeat this, X’ing out the newly merged layers each time, until you have merged all your images with one Polaroid layer and one background layer

Second Method:

If you are using one of the multiple Polaroid tubes, duplicate the Polaroid layer and background layer twice. X out all your images except for your first set, X out one Polaroid and one background layer. You should now have 1 Polaroid, 1 background and one set of images visible. Merge visible and then X out the newly merged layer. Repeat for the second set of images.

12). Copy and paste your tube as a new layer
13). Add the same drop shadow as before
14). Add any copyright information and your watermark
15). Choose a dark color from your tube as your background and a light color as your foreground. In a font of your choice add your name
16). Add the same drop shadow as before
17). X out the two merged layers with your images in them
18). Merge your name, copyright information and tube layers.
19). Duplicate them to match the number of your merged image layers
20). Merge ONE of the Tube layers and ONE of the Image layers together. X it out then merge the other layer.

*You should now have images, copyright and tubes on every layer*

21). Save in .psp format with a file name you will be able to find

We are now ready to animate:
1). Open Animation Shop
2). Open your file
3). Press Ctrl + A to select all your frames
4). Click on Animation-Frame Properties and change the number to something somewhere between 30-50
5). Click on View-Animation.

If you like the way it looks save it and you are done!

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