Artistic Passion Tutorials

Blow Your Bubbles

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice
Font of choice
My Bubbles [I made these supplies, please do not pass these around in any groups]

Artwork © Martin Abel.
You need to purchase a licence to use Martin’s artwork.
Visit CILM to get yours!

Lets begin!

1. Open up your tube and my bubbles in PSP. Press Shift and D to duplicate and close the original.

2. Image – Canvas Size – 500 x 500.

Layers – New raster Layer, floodfill with white. Layers – Arrange – Send to bottom.

3. Choose 2 colours from your tube. make sure ‘bubbles3’ layer is active and draw out a shape of your choice.
I chose a circle. Line width 9, background null. Foreground was my darker colour.
Draw out your shape. Objects – Align – Center in canvas. Convert to Raster Layer.

4. Still on your shape layer click inside with the magic wand.
Selections – Modify – Expand by 3.
Selections – Invert.
Click on ‘bubbles3’ and press delete. Click on ‘bubbles2’ and press delete. Click on ‘bubbles1’ and press delete.
Selections – Invert.
Layer – New Raster Layer. Floodfill with your lighter colour [or darker if you chose to use the opposite].
layers – Arrange – Move Down.
Selections – Select None.

5. Add your tube. I erased part of mine to give the effect she was coming out of the circle.
Give your tube a drop shadow.
Mine was V & H [0] Opacity [70] Blur [10] Colour [Black].

6. Duplicate your shape layer. On the bottom shape layer Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – 10.
On the top shape layer I applied a drop shadow of V & H [0] Opacity [60] Blur [5] Colour [Black]

7. At this stage I cropped my image using the crop tool.

8. Add your name in a font of choice. I applied an inner bevel to mine and a drop shadow.

9. Add artist copyrights and we’re ready to animate!

10. Hide ‘bubbles2’ and ‘bubbles3’ layers.

Edit – Copy Merged.
Open Animation Shop and Paste As A New Animation.
Back to PSP.
Hide ‘bubbles1’ and unhide ‘bubbles2’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, right click on your image already there and Paste After Current Frame.
Back to PSP.
Hide ‘bubbles2’ and unhide ‘bubbles3’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop right click on your image and Paste After Current Frame.

11. Still in Animation Shop, Edit – Select All.
Animation – Frame Properties. I changed mine to 25.
View your animation as you may prefer a faster speed or a slower one!

12. Save your tag and you’re done.

Thank you for trying out my tutorial.

Here is another example!

Layout and Tutorial ©Julie [magic] written on January 12th 2006.
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