Lesson 010: Hung Up

Extra example:

This tag is animated, but in word the animation cannot be seen

Materials: image, brushes, font and a little gif

Animationshop is needed as well.

plugin: Penta.com

Material download here

let’s go:

open new image 500x500 px transparent

Selections – select all

Activate image , edit – copy and paste into the selection

Deselect

Adjust –hue and saturation –colorize and choose preset ‘blue Neutral’ (this is layer 1)

Duplicate this layer but make layer 1 active

Adjust – blur – gaussian blur 20

Activate the duplicated layer

Layer palette, opacity 67%, blend mode soft light

Effects – filter Penta.com – Dot and Cross settings as follow: 60-10-2

Layer palette, new raster layer

Foreground = white

Activate the brush tool and choose my brushes . begin with cd_001, afterwards cd_002, cd_003 and cd_004

Stamp the brushes see printscreen:

Layer palette, opacity 51%, blend mode: overlay

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 1, opacity 100, blur 1, color black

Layer palette, new raste rlayer

With the selection tool – custom selection settings shown below:

Flood fill selection with white

Deselect

Layer palette, blend mode: soft light

Layer palette, new raster layer

Repeat custom selection

Flood fill with white

Deselect

Layer palette, blend mode: Overlay

Layerpalette, merge, merge visibly

Image – add borders 1 px choose a dark color

Duplicate layer

Image resize 50 pixels, bicubic and resize all layers unchecked

With the moove tool, place this little image in the square see example

New text layer

Foreground color locked, background color = white

Activate text tool and choose font (Car Go), size 48 px

Write down your text. If you do not want the underline, than put cap lock on

repeat drop shadow as before

repeat drop shadow but change the settings:

Horz/vert 3, opacity 50, blur 10, color black

Deselect

Layer palette, blend mode: multiply

Duplicate layer

Layer palette, blend mode: soft light

Save as a jpg

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Open animationshop

Open your jpg file and the silver.gif, (minimize that last one)

With the jpg-file active: edit – select

Edit –duplicate selection and repeat till you have 8 frames

Select these 8 frames (edit – select all)

Activate the gif-file, edit –select all

edit – copy

Return to the jpg file

Edit – paste – into selected frames

Place it in the square

Animation – resize animation 400 px – bicubic

It is not necessary to resize but it diminues the kb’s

Save as a gif.