Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Under the Sea

Under the Sea



This tutorial is written by me ©Opalshards. Resemblance to any other tutorial is pure coincidence.
Font of your choice. Tube of your choice.
Mine is by © Nicole Brune You need a licence to use her art. Tubes & licence can be purchased HERE
You will need my Porthole (choice of 2) and my Globe.
My Supplies HERE
Ok lets begin.
1.Open up a new canvas 600x600 background colour white.
2. Now find an underwater background that you like. and copy and paste as a new layer.
3.Open my supplies and select the Porthole . Copy and paste as a new layer erase my credit.
4. Resize your background to fit underneath your porthole. X out your porthole layer.
5.Choose the tube that you want to use. Copy and paste as a new layer. Drag it down under the porthole layer and resize it as needed.
6. Now promote your background to a layer. X out your Porthole layer and merge visible.
7.Copy your merged layer and take it to Animation Shop. Insert image effect Underwater Effect length 1.3,
Frames per second 10 Animation frame checked. Giving you 13 frames.
8.Customise pull out about 16 waves small and medium. Apply sunlight dappling checked. Sunlight intencity

10. Water depth 40. And hit OK.
9. Delete frame 1. Edit select all export frames to paint shop pro.
10. Now copy your Porthole off the original and paste it as a new layer, on top of your animation frames. Move it where you want it.
11.Now copy and paste your globe and resize if needed. This should now fit snuggly in the porthole, adjust as needed.
12. Now add your artist's credit and your own. X out your 13 animated layers. Then merge visible layers.
13. Copy this merged layer and take it to Animation Shop. Copy until you have 13 frames.

14. Back to Paint shop Pro. Delete your merged layer. Un X your 13 Animation frames and update back to Animation shop.
15. Edit select all of your porthole frames copy.
16.Edit select all of your animated frames and paste into selected frame. Resize 600x600.Press view animation and if you are happy with the result.
Optimise and Save.


Here is another using the FTU work of Cliff Bonamie.
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