Spinning Blades SigTag

Supplies you need:
PSP Version 7.04
Animationshop

A tube of your choice.

1. Open the tube in PSP.

2. Click on the selection tool with these settings: Rectangle, Feather=0 and antialias checked. Select a peace from the tube and go to selections convert to seamless pattern. Minimize the pattern. Select None on the tube image. Minimize the tube.

3. Open a new image 500 by 500 transparante background.

4. Layers New Raster layer.

5. Click on the shape tool with these settings: Flower9, linewidth 1, solid line and antialias checked rest unchecked.

6. Set background to pattern and find the pattern you just made. Set foreground to color and pick a color from the tube or one from the pattern.

7. Set the cursor on 100-100 and pull your shape all the way to 400-400 :

Name this layer V1.

8. Effects/3D Effects/Dropschadow with these settings:

 9. Layers New Raster layer. Floodfill with white. Go to layers arrange send to bottom. Duplicate this layer twice, call these three white layers  W1,W2 and W3 or any name you want. 

10. Duplicate the layer with the shape and call it V2. Go to image rotate and rotate 15 to the right all layers unchecked.  Duplicate the V2 layer and call it V3. Image rotate 15 to the right. 

11. Copy the tube you have and close it we don't need it anymore. Go to your image and past as new layer on it. Call this layer T1,Add the same drop schadow as in step 8. Duplicate this the T1 layer twice and call them T2 and T3.

12. Layers New Raster layer. 

13. Open the text tool find a nice font you want to use, background on the pattern and the foreground on the color you had. I uses Balloon with size 72 floating checked. Set your name or something else on this layer.Select none. With the mover tool you can place the text where you want it. Call this layer N1.

I choose to have my name under the tube layer so I had to go to my layer palett and drag my text layer under the three tube layers.

14. Effects/3D Effects/Dropschadow with the settings as in step 8. Duplicate the N1 layer twice and call them N2 and N3.

15. Now we are going to merge some layers for the animation.

This is how your layer palette looks now:

16. Close the next layers: T3,T2,N3,N2,V3,V2,W3 and W2 by clicking on the glasses. Make sure that W1 is the active layer and merge the next layers visible W1,V1,N1 en T1, call this merged lauer ani1.

17. Close the next layers: ani1,T3,N3,V3 and W3. Make sure W2 is the active layer and merge the next layers visible T2,N2,V2 and W2. Call this merged layer ani2.

18. Close the ani1 and ani2 Make sure the W3 is the active layer and merge layers visible T3,N3,V3 and W3 and call this merged layer ani3. Now click all three layers open so they are visible. This is how your layer palette should look like now:

You can choose to cut some of the white off before going to animationshop if you do that whatch out for the dropschadow leave anough white and the sides.

Save this as psp file and give it a name

On to animation.

19. Open animationshop. Go to file preferences and see if you have the next things checked:

Go to file Open and search for the psp file you just saved, click on open. If you have saved it good you have three frames in animationshop now. 

20. Go to Edit / Select all. Go to animation / Rezise animation. Mine is 439 by 346 and i change it with 60% so my end is 263 by 208. Click on this to see the animation.

Go to file save as and save it under the name you want. On the next screen just hit the next buttons and finish. My final sigtag is 46 kb. 

24 march 2003, © Copyright Cinderella-Designs.