Materials: Zipfile here
Goldpatern



1. Open all tubes in PSP.

2. Open the cardtube, where are going to work with this one first.

3. Copy the rosetube and paste as new layer on your card.

4. Put the visibility back to 50 in your layerpalet.

5. Activate your texttool and use the following settings:



Make this layer a rasterlayer in your layerpalet.

6. Effects/ 3-D/ Drop shadow with the following settings:



7. Merge all layers visible.

8. Open a new image 350/450.

9. Copy the cardtube and paste as new layer on your image.

10. Now copy the card you have used made and paste as new layer on
your new image.
Put the card at the bottom of the cardtube with the top again the
whiteline of the slap.

11. Copy the envelopetube now and paste it as new layer and put
it on the right position.

12. Copy the slaptube and paste it also as a new layer on your image.

13. Now we have all the layers we need for the card.

14. Close the two lowest layers in your layerpalet by clicking on the
glasses.

15. Put the slap on the right place, now you can see it well.

16. Activate the upper layer, which is supposed to be the slaptube,
active your texttool with the same settings as we have used at
point 5.
Typ the sender (see my card).
Make this layer a rasterlayer in your layerpalet.

17. Use the same dropshadow we have used at point 6.

18. Merge these 3 layers visible and save it as a psp-file,
name it image1.
19. Click on the undo button, so the layers are no longer merged.

20. Close the upper two layers by clicking the glasses (slap and text)
and open the other layers.

21. Merge the layers visible and save it as image2.

22. Click on undo again. Activate the layer of the card in your
layerpalet by clicking it.
On your image you can drag the card carefully up 1 square.

23. Merge these layers visible and save as image3.

24. Keep repeating point 22 and 23 until your text on the card is
completely visible.
I had to save in total 9 images.

25. Have you done this all? Ok, then open animationshop.

26. click on the animationwizard button upperleft in your bar.
There will appear a screen;
1st screen, 1st option, next/ 2nd screen, 1st option, next/
3rd screen, both 1st option, next/4th screen, 1st option,
time on 30, next/5th screen, click on add, search your
9 images, open, next/6th screen, finish.

27. Now you see the frames of the animation, click on the first
frame/animation/frame properties/ fill in 100.

28. Click on the last screen and do the same as with point 27,
but now fill in 150.

29. Now you can save it as a gif-file and ready is your card!

juli 2005 © Enne

With special thanks to Kim for translating this lesson!