FILM STRIP BLINKIE

 

 

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. 

Tubes of Choice (4)  -  For this tutorial, I used the delightful images created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Accessories - Film Strip Blinkie Template and Animated Camera (one_time_camera).

Any additional decorative items for your tag.

Please remember, when creating your signature tags, to only use permission art and to apply the copyright information on the tag.  If  you have purchased a commercial image, do add your license number as well.

**When creating your Signature tags with Paint Shop Pro, do remember to save continually.  Nothing worse than to use up your memory resources and lose everything!**

SETTING USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Magic Wand:

Mode: Add/Shift, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance +/-24, Contiguous checked, Feather: 0, Anti-Alias checked and outside selected. 

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up the film strip blinkie template and your four tube graphics. Select a background color that will coordinate well with your images and have that color appear in the top color box at the Material Palette.

Step 2

Make the blinkie template active. Open up your layer palette and make sure you are on the Raster 1 layer.  Flood fill this layer with the color you selected in Step 1 and go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 3

Left click the magic wand and use the settings from above.  Left click the magic wand in the first frame of the film strip to select it. 

Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the film strip blinkie active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. 

Left click the mover tool and move your graphic inside the selection.  The graphic will probably be too large so go to: Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked. DO NOT REDUCE THE GRAPHIC TO FIT PERFECTLY.  We only want a portion (probably the head portion to show in the film strip). 

Once you have the reduced image placed within the film strip, go to Selections/Select None.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 4

Repeat Step 3 for the other three images, placing them in the film strip and placing the last image in the single film strip.

Again, go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 5 (Optional Gradient)

If you want to change the solid coloration in the middle of the tag to a gradient - do the following:

At the material palette, select two colors for your gradient.

Left click the top color box and when the color selection window opens, left click the gradient tab.  Gradient Style: Linear, Foreground/Background with angle and repeats at 0.

Left click the magic wand in the solid center portion of the tag to select it and flood fill the center portion with the gradient and go to Selections/Select None.

Step 6

Add your text and copyright information (including licensing information, if applicable) to the black portion of the tag.  Once you have all this information added, go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 7

Go to Layers/Duplicate.  Open up the layer palette and close off the top layer by left clicking the eye so that you have a red X on it.  Make sure you are now on the bottom layer of the tag.

Step 8

At the material palette select two colors you want for your blinkie so they are in the top and bottom color boxes.

With your magic wand, left click all the alternating boxes of the tag on the top line and on the bottom line, start left click the second box and continue left clicking the alternating boxes so they are  all selected.  Flood fill with one of the colors you selected.  Go to Selections/Select None.  The reason we start with the second box on the bottom line is to allow for the top and bottom lines to also have alternating colors.

Step 9

With your magic wand, left click all the remaining boxes of the tag so they are selected and flood fill with the second color you selected.  Go to Selections/Select None. 

Step 10

Open up the layer palette, close off the bottom layer, and open up the top layer by left clicking on the Red X.  Make sure you are now on the top layer.

Step 11

Left click the magic wand on the alternating colors of your blinkie on the top line and on the bottom line, again start with the second box, continue left clicking the alternationg boxes so they are all selected.   This time flood fill the blinkie with the opposite color you used in the layer below.  For example, if you used orange and yellow on the layer below and filled these selected boxes with orange, you would now fill these boxes with yellow. Go to Selections/Select None.

Step 12

With your magic wand, left click all the remaining boxes of the tag so they are selected and flood fill with the second color.  Go to Selections/Select None. 

Step 13

Open up your layer palette and left click the bottom layer to open it up.  Both layers should now be open (no red X's).

Step 14

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 66%, Bicubic and Resize all Layers checked.  Save this file as a psp or psd file.  We will finish the tag in animation shop.  Click here to continue.