*Animating a
Tube*
*Supplies needed for
this tutorial*
*PSP7
*Font of
your choice. (I used Isadora.)
Includes:
Apple_bears tube by: Christina's Tube &
Tutorials
Thank You Christina. (*Her site is
closed.)
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Open a new transparent
image in PSP7, 400 x 400.
Flood fill with
white, and name it Wht_Backgroud.
Resize the apple_bear tube
to 80%,
copy and add as a new
layer to
your white background and
sharpen.
Name this layer
BearnAppleTube.
*Close out the original
tube without changing.*
Using the lasso tool 
point to point,
go around the bear, as
shown below.
While selected, go to
Edit>Copy. Edit>Paste
as a new layer, and name it
Bear.
Deselect.
Click back on the
BearnAppleTube and
again using the lasso tool
*point to point*
go around the apple, as
shown.
Go to Edit>Copy.
Edit>Paste as a new layer
and name the layer
Apple.
Deselect.
X out the BearnAppleTube
layer.
Click on the Bear tube
layer, and
duplicate 2 times.
Click on the Apple tube
layer,
and duplicate 2
times.
X out all layers except the
first copy of
the bear, the
apple,
and white
background.
Click on the Bear layer,
and drag it below
the Apple layer. Repeat
until all 3 Bear layers
are below the Apple
layers.
Make sure that you are on
the first
Bear tube layer.
Now go to
Image>Rotate.
*Right>Free>60.
Click on the first
*copy* of the
Bear and go to
Image>Rotate.
*Right>Free>30.
Un-X all 3 Bear
layers.
Using your mover tool, slightly move
the two copies of the
bear that we rotated.
We
want his arm to be
hidden, except in
the
layer we did not rotate, and being
careful not to move the
copies too far up or
down, so that the animation
will be
smooth and not jumping around.)
*lol*
Use the Bear layer
that we did not
rotate, as your guide.
Click on each bear layer,
and go to
Effects>3D>Drop
Shadow.
Apply these
settings.
Un-X and apply the same
drop shadow
to each apple
layer.
