Artistic Passion Tutorials

Which Way

Supplies Needed

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop [for the animation]
Tubes of choice [by the same artist]
Font of choice
My Supplies [please do not pass these supplies around]
Mask of Choice
Tramages – Tow The Line

Artwork © Martin Abel.
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Lets begin!

1. Open a new image [mine was 600×600] and floodfill with white.
Open up my supplies and your tubes.
Copy and paste my template [AP_temp10] as a new layer.
Colourise to match your tube.
*TIP* If you can’t get it to the colour you require follow these steps:
Selections – Select All. Selections – Float. Selections – Defloat.
Layers – New Raster Layer. Floodfill with your colour of choice.
Selections – Select None. Delete the ‘grey’ template layer.

2. With your magic wand select the rectangle in the center.
Selections – Modify – Contract – 8.
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with a colour of choice. I used black.
Keep selected!

3. Copy and paste different tubes as new layers.
You should have something like this:

Selections – Invert.
On each tube layer hit the delete button on your keyboard.
Selections – Select None.
Hide the bottom 2 layers in your layer palette [this should be your background and template] and merge visible.

4. With your merged layer active, Edit – Copy.
Edit – Paste as a new Image.
You should now have your merged tube layer on it’s own.
Image – Rotate with the following settings:

Effects – Tramages – Tow The Line [default settings].
Image – Rotate with the following settings:

Edit – Copy.

5. On your original canvas, Edit – Paste as a new layer.
You should now have 2 merged tube layers.
Reduce the opacity on both to 50 or so.
Hide the bottom 2 layers again and Merge Visible.
I gave mine a drop shadow at this point of V & H [0] Opacity [50] Blur [5] Colour [Black]

6. Make your template layer the active layer.
Click inside each section of the top and bottom arrows and rectangles.
You should have something like this:

Selections – Modify – Contract – 8.
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with colour of choice [I used black].
Selections – Select None.

7. Still on this new layer, with your magic wand select the 2 arrows nearest to the rectangles.

Selections – Modify – Contract – 5.
Floodfill with your original colour.
Repeat this for the 3 other arrows so you have them all on seperate layers.
I renamed mine arrow1, arrow2 etc so as not to confuse myself.
With your magic wand, select all the ‘coloured’ parts of your tag.
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the following settings:

Repeat this for all the different coloured layers.
[see tag for reference]

9. At this stage I added a drop shadow to my layers.

10. Copy and paste the diamonds I supplied as a new layer.
I supplied some shapes that I used. You can colourise them and add them, or you can add your own!
I used the same noise as previously and gave them a drop shadow.
If you’re using the ones provided you do not need to do this.

11. With your pen tool selected, line width 2, choose a line style of choice.
I chose ‘diamonds’ and the colour black.
Draw out a line the same width as the middle rectangle.
Give it a drop shadow.
Place it between the middle rectangle and the upper arrows.
Duplicate it and move it down to the space between the middle rectangle and the lower arrows.
[see tag for reference].

12. With your background layer active, Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with a colour that matches your tube.
Apply a mask of choice.
I used WSL_Mask19 made by the super talented Chelle! [if you want to use the same one you can download from Chelle’s site].

13. Add your main tube and give it a drop shadow of choice.
Add your name and artist copyrights.

14. Phewwwww almost done!
If you want to animate read on…. but first lets look at our layer palette.
Mine looks something like this:

As you can see I’ve x’d out the pink arrow layers.
Edit – Copy Merged.
Open Animation Shop.
Edit – Paste – As a new animation.

15. Back into PSP. Unhide ‘arrows1’. This is the arrow nearest to the top rectangle.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on the image already there and Paste – After Current Frame.

16. Back into PSP. Unhide ‘arrows2’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F2 [frame 2] and Paste – After Current Frame.

17. Back into PSP. Unhide ‘arrows3’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F3 [frame 3] and Paste – After Current Frame.

18. Back into PSP. Unhide ‘arrows4’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F4 [frame 4] and Paste – After Current Frame.

19. Back into PSP. Hide ‘arrows4’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F5 [frame 5] and Paste – After Current Frame.

20. Back into PSP. Hide ‘arrows3’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F6 [frame 6] and Paste – After Current Frame.

21. Back into PSP. Hide ‘arrows2’.
Edit – Copy Merged.
In Animation Shop, Right click on F7 [frame 7] and Paste – After Current Frame.
*We should now have 8 frames in Animation Shop*

22. Click on Frame 1. Edit – Select All.
Animation – Frame properties.
Change the number to 30.
*This will change the frame properties to 30 on all the frames*

Click on Frame 1 again. Animation – Frame Properties.
Change the number to 60.
*This will change the frame properties for Frame 1 only*
Click on Frame 5. Animation – Frame Properties.
Change the number to 60.
*This will change the frame properties for Frame 5 only*
Click on View – Animation.
If the animation is to your liking you can save your tag.
Remember to save as a .gif file.
You’re done!

Thank you for trying out my tutorial.

Here is another example!

Layout and Tutorial ©Julie [magic] written on October 2nd 2007.
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