Apple lantern.

© Louise G

This tutorial is made for PSP 8,
but I have made selections for PSP7 also.

PSP8: get my Selections here and zip them up in your PSP Selections Folder.
PSP7: get my Selections here and zip them up in your PSP Selections Folder.

The zip also includes the flames and the glass fillings. Zip the flames up in your PSP Image Folder
and zip up the glassfillings in your PSP Patterns Folder.

You will also need filter Eye Candy.

Start with a New Image 280 x 310, transp, 16 mill. Fill with black color or a pattern of your choice.
This tutorial is with black background. But if you already know on which background
you will use the animation, I suggest you will use that background from the start.
I made another animation with the background I use in this tutorial also. See above.
If you make the animation transparent, the glassfilling will be rather opaque.
Look at the bottom of this tutorial. Call the layer Background.

New Layer. Call it Bow1a. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, bow1a.sel.
If you use PSP7, Selections, Load from disk, lanternpsp7, bow1a.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect.
Eye Candy, Crome, with these settings.

New Layer. Call it Bow2a. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, bow2a.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome as before.

New Layer. Call it Bow3a. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, bow3a.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome as before.

Close Layer Background.  Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.

New Layer. Call it Leaf. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, leaf.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome as before.

Magic Wand. Click inside the leaf, Selections, Modify, Expand by 2.
Keep it selected. New Layer. Flood fill with the green glass pattern.

Zoom the picture to see that all areas are green. You might have to fill twice.
If that will not do, use Airbrush1 to fill in the missing parts.
Deselect. Drag this glass layer under Layer Leaf  in your Layer Palette.

Stand on Layer Leaf. New Layer. Call it Stalk. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, stalk.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Don't forget to switch back to solid color.
Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome as before.

Magic Wand. Click inside the stalk, Selections, Modify, Expand by 2.
Keep it selected. New Layer. Flood fill with the brown glass pattern.
Zoom the picture to see that all areas are brown. You might have to fill twice or use Airbrush1.
Deselect. Drag this glass layer under Layer Stalk  in your Layer Palette.

Stand on Layer Stalk. New Layer. Call it Bottom. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, bottom.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Don't forget to switch back to solid color.
Deselect. Effects, 3D, Inner Bevel as below.

Close Layer Background. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.

New Layer. Call it Candleholder. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, candleholder.sel.
Flood Fill with Gradient color, Metallic2.

 Deselect. Lower the Opacity in your Layer Palette to 94.

Now you will have to get the candle flames you got in the zip.
Copy and Paste them one by one as New Layers. Call them 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5.
Put them on top of each other like this.

Make sure the wicks fit excactly to each other.
Lower the Opacity on all flames layers in your Layer Palette to 50 .

New Layer. Call it Ring1. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, ring1.sel.
Switch back to color in your Color Palette. Flood Fill with black color. Deselect.
Eye Candy, Crome the same settings as on Layer Bow1. Lower the Opacity to 64.

New Layer. Call it Glassfilling. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, glasfilling.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F5FEFF. Deselect. Lower the Opacity to 46.
Here you can experiment a little with the settings, depending on which background you chose.
I have used these settings on a black background.

New Layer. Call it Glassrim1. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, glassrim1.sel.
Flood Fill with color #CFF2F5. Deselect. Lower the Opacity to 70.

New Layer. Call it Glassrim2. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, glassrim2.sel.
Flood Fill with color #CFF2F5. Deselect. Lower the Opacity to 46.

New Layer. Call it Reflection. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, reflection.sel.
Flood Fill with white color. Deselect. Lower the Opacity to 72.

New Layer. Call it Bottomrim. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, bottomrim.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome the same settings as on Layer Bow1.

New Layer. Call it Sticks. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, sticks.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome the same settings as on Layer Bow1.

New Layer. Call it Ring2. Selections, Load from disk, lantern, ring2.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect. Eye Candy, Crome the same settings as on Layer Bow1.

This is what you will have now.

Close all layers with the flames.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Lantern.

We are now going to animate the candle.

Stand on Layer Lantern. Close all layers except Layer Lantern and Layer 1 with the first flame..
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste it as a New Image.

Go back to your first Image and Undo your last command.

Close Layer 1. Keep Layer Lantern and Layer 2 open.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer on your second Image.
Now you will have two layers on that Image. We continue.

Go back to your first Image and Undo your last command.

Close Layer 2. Keep Layer Lantern and Layer 3 open.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer on your second Image.
Now you will have three layers on that Image.

Go back to your first Image and Undo your last command.

Close Layer 3. Keep Layer Lantern and Layer 4 open.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer on your second Image.
Now you will have four layers on that Image.

Go back to your first Image and Undo your last command.

Close Layer 4. Keep Layer Lantern and Layer 5 open.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer on your second Image.
Now you will have five layers on that Image.

Save the Image as psp and call it Lantern2.
Make sure all layers are open like this.

Open Animation Shop.

Go to File, Open.
Go to the folder where you saved  Lantern2.
Double click on Lantern2 and you will have all layers on your desktop.
Zoom down the Image and you will see the strip with all layers.

Look at the arrow on the picture. This is where you can see the time delay displayed on each frame.

Click on Frame1 with the arrow. Now only Frame1 is selected.

Go to Animation, Frame Properties.

Set Frame 1 to 30.

You don't have to change anything on Frame2. The time there is set to 10 as it shall be.

Click on Frame3. Do the same again and set Frame 3 to 15.

Click on Frame4. Do the same again and set Frame 4 to 25.

Click on Frame5. Do the same again and set Frame 5 to 20.

Go to Animation, Animation Properties.

Set the looping to indefinitely and your animation will run for ever.

View your Animation.

Watch the candle flame move and Save your work.

Just to show you how it will look with a transparent background. Look below.
The glass doesn't look very transparent. So I mean, that a color or a pattern
are best as backgrounds. What do you think?

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