Lucky Charm FTU Tutorial by Penny

Lucky Charm

This tutorial was written by me, Penny aka:Venomous Creations,  on March 03, 2019 exclusively for the Artistic Tag Passions PSP forum.
I used my own ideas, and any resemblance to others is coincidental and accidental.
This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of psp and is written in PSPX/PSPX6
but can be done in any version.

SUPPLIES:

"Luck of the Cattish" tube Here by Ash Evans 

Ash Evans

- tube/license currently available at CDO Here

My Word Art below or wording of choice

Click image, then right click and save the full size png

Filters:

DSB Flux_Bright Noise and Linear Transmission
Mura's Meister_Tone 

Fonts:
Ikarus

Abbreviations:
DS_Drop Shadow
ANL_Add New Layer
EC_Eye Candy
GG_Gradient Glow
AS_Animation Shop
C/P_Copy and Paste
FF_Flood Fill

STEPS:

Open blank 600x300 canvas

Make a gradient: #8781a2 and #9eb794

Linear

Angle: 45

Repeats: 1

ANL

FF with gradient

DSB Flux_Linear transmission_7_15_50_Horizontal

Repeat

Magic Wand_Tolerance 15

Click in one of the top left lines

Promote Selection To Layer

Keep selected

Mura's Meister_Tone_300_25_5_0_0_0_Both Boxes #9bb295_Thru BG/FG checked_Style: Grid

Select none

Magic Wand_Tolerance 10

Click in one of the small squares

Selections_Select Color Range_10_20_Add Color Range

Promote Selection To Layer

Select none

Duplicate 3 times

DSB Flux_Bright Noise_25_Mix

Repeat noise on other 3 promoted dot layers, clicking MIX each time

Hide the bottom 3 noise layers for now

ANL to top

Selection Tool_Rectangle

Draw a strip across tag about 4 rows up from bottom and about 5 rows thick

FF #8781a2

Duplicate

Contract 2

Delete

Select none

Blend Mode_Multiply

Add Noise_Gaussian 50

C/P tube placing as shown

DS_15_35_15_Black

C/P word art or add saying of choice

DS_0_0_100_10_#8de29a

ANL to top

FF #332e4e

Select All

Contract 2

FF #9eb794

Contract 1

FF #332e4e

Contract 2

Delete

Select none

DS_0_0_100_10_Black

Add all correct copyright/license information

Name_ Ikarus_8_Black

 

ANIMATING

Copy Merged

AS

Paste As New Animation

PSP

Close top noise layer

Open middle noise layer

Copy Merged

AS
Paste After Current Frame

Repeat for last 2 noise layers

**If not making eyes blink, stop here**

View Animation

If happy, save!

 

~~IF MAKING EYES BLINK~~

Ctrl+A (select all)

Ctrl+C (copy)

Click frame #4

Paste After Current Frame

Click on frame #8

Paste After Current Frame

Click frame #12

Paste After Current Frame

Click frame #16

Paste After Current Frame

Click on frame #20

Paste After Current Frame

You should now have 24 frames

Ctrl+A

PSP

Selection Tool_Point to Point

Roll mouse to enlarge tag so you can easily see the eye area of tube

Using selection tool, select around the eyes:

Duplicate tube

Move duplicate around so an area you like (choose an area that blends in with the eye area as much as possible)

Promote To Layer

Move duplicate around again (if necessary) and select an area for the other eye

Promote to layer

Select none

Delete the duplicate tube layer

Erase/delete any parts that show around the main eye covering on each promoted layer

Merge the promoted eye cover layers together

Duplicate

Select the bottom half of the duplicate eye cover layer

Delete

Select none

Tube eye area should now look like this:

Close solid eye cover layer

Close bottom noise layer

Open top noise layer

Copy Merged

AS

Click frame #24

Paste after current frame

PSP

Close partial eye cover layer

Open solid eye cover layer

Close top noise layer

Open 2nd noise layer

Copy Merged

AS
Paste After Current Frame

PSP

Close solid eye cover layer

Open partial eye cover layer

Close 2nd noise layer

Open 3rd noise layer

Copy Merged

AS Paste After Current Frame

PSP

Close partial eye cover

Close 3rd noise layer

Open 4th noise layer

Copy Merged

AS

Paste After Current Frame

You should now have 28 frames

View Animation

If happy, save!!