Name It !

This is what we like to do !

I wrote this in PSP 9.

What you need !

PSP 9

Animationshop

A nice tubes

A nice brush with some on it.

Filter : simple ((4 way average ))

Filter : Mura's Seamless-Emboss at Alpha

Filter : Falmming Pear-Aetherize

Font : Rondalo regular (( true type ))

1. Open a New Image: 500px x 500px Transparent.

2. Open your tube in PSP and find a nice darker color. Flood  fill your layer with the tube you are using.

I used ( #040500 ).

3.New Raster Layer . Look for a light color as foregroundcolor I used (#7c8b9f ) and set with as backgroundcolor.

4. Style / Floot fill with Gradient.

5. Go to Selection tool / Custom Selection .See my image.

6. Fill your selection with Gradient.Select none.

7. Effects / Filter Simple / 4 Way Average.

8 . My exemple.

9. Effects / filter / Mura's Semless- Emboss at Alpha .take the default.Click OK.

10. Foregroundcolor like befor ( (#7c8b9f ) backgroundcolor ( #040500 )

11. New Raster Layer .In your Layer Palette call this layer 3.It's better to give every layer a name so you know what it is.

12. Go to Preset Sharpe and look for a nice Sharpe.

13. View / rulers / and make something I did in the left site.

14. Don't drage it to near by the ends. See my rules and line here .

15. Effects / 3D effects/ Drop Shadow .

16 . Copy your tube / Edit / copy , paste aa new image in your image.

17. Effects / Flaming Pear / Aetherize /Depends wich tubes you use.

18. Duplicate your tubes ,go to Adjust / Blur / Radial Blur and put the duplicate under your tube.

19. Image / Mirrow and put the copy tube in the mittle your image.

20. New Raster Layer / foregroundcolor ( #7c8b9f ).

21. Look for a nice brush and click 1 time in the mittle. Work a bit with your Raster Deform Tool.

22. Activate your text tools with this setting .

23. Foreground color too ( #67747f ) Background color ( #1e373f ) or of your joys.

24. Write your name.

25. Convert vector into raster layer.

26. Shift your name up like my pictures .

27. Effects - 3D effects -DropShadow.

28.Layers - layers all visible.

29. Selction Tool   and make a selection around your Name.

30. Copy your name and paste into new image. Select none.

31 .Save the new file as a psp file in a folder of your choice

follows options - PSP 7 compatible file.

32. Save your image with the jpg-Optimierer in the same folder like the psp file.

33 . Open the AnimationShop.

34. File - opening, opens the psp file with your name.

35. Effects - Insert text effect .

36.Now in the following dialog field applies these settings

Write in the small text field the text which you might insert.

Click on font and look the font Rondalo Regular, type-size 10 .

There are lots of variation you can do.

Click ok.

37. Click on Effect - Marquee / Customize

38. I have chosen here 12, but you must find out which setting is the best one for your writing, this is dependent on the height of your name.
Just play a little with the settings.

59. Confirm the text effect with OK.

Now you have provided this animation:

60.As you see, your animation of 18 frames exists:

61. Click in the first frame - Edit - Select all - Copy all .

62. Open now your big jpg picture.

63. This picture exists only of one frame, however, you also need 18 frames.

64. Click on your picture - Edit - Duplicate Selected - now you've got 2.

65 .Edit - Select all - Duplicate Selected again.

66. Do this untile you have 16. Than you have to click with the right mouse in the 16 pictures and " duplicate selected "

Do this once more.Now you have 18 pictures.

( If you have too much frame, you can resimply also remove them, while you mark them and press then the removing key your keyboard.)

67. Highlight your first name - Go to Edit - select all .The same do so with yout pictures .

68 . Go back to your name and drag it in your picture were you name is

69. Let go the mouse key when you have exactly the right position.
Perhaps, you must correct once more, then choose treatment - declining and repeat the insertion once more.
Try the name animation to insert in such a way which one does not see later that it was an extra picture.

 

70. Go to Animation - Animation Properties.

Display to 10 sec.or what ever.

71. File - Save your Animation as gif file.

There are lots of variation you can do.

Injoy my Tutorial.

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