Rain




Open a 600 x 400 transparent image.

Open a tube of your choice shift + D to copy close original.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer on to your 600 x 400.

Tools / deform tool / resize and position your tube then click pan.



Minimise the original tube for now.

Activate the tube layer.

Tools/ Magic Wand / settings: Add (Shift) / RGB Value / Tolerance

16 / Sample Merged and Contiguous unchecked / Feather 0 /

Anti-alias unchecked.

Click on the flowers to activate the ants.



Duplicate this layer until you have 3.

Activate the first layer with the ants on.

Adjust / Add, Remove noise / Add Noise Settings: Gaussian checked

 / Noise 30 % and Monochrome checked ok.



X out this layer and activate the next one.

Adjust / Add, Remove noise / Add Noise Settings: Gaussian checked

/ Noise 40 % and Monochrome checked ok.

 X out this layer and activate the next one.

Adjust / Add, Remove noise / Add Noise Settings: Gaussian checked

 / Noise 50 % and Monochrome checked ok.

Selections / Select none.

X out the last noise layer.

Layer palette add a new raster layer move it to top and activate it.

Right click on the new layer and duplicate until you have 3.

Start at the top, right click and rename the 3 blank layers Rain 1

 , Rain 2 , Rain 3, and the bottom layer Background.

Activate the top layer rain 1.

Effects VDL Adrenaline / snowflakes / settings: Amount 230 / Minimum size

 5 / Maximum size 10 / Hardness 100 / Transparency 5/

Snow color Basic-snow / Random seed / HIGHLIGHT the end box and type  in 

900 / ok.



Adjust / blur / motion blur / angle 15 / strength 40 / ok.



Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more.

X out Rain 1 and activate Rain 2.

Effects VDL Adrenaline / snowflakes / settings: Amount 230 / minimum size 

5 / Maximum size 10 / Hardness 100 / Transparency 5/

Snow color Basic-snow / Random seed / HIGHLIGHT the end box and type in

 1800 / ok.

Adjust / blur / motion blur / angle 15 / strength 40 / ok.

Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more.

X out Rain 2 and activate Rain 3


Effects VDL Adrenaline / snowflakes / settings: Amount 230 / minimum size 

5/ maximum size 10 / Hardness 100 / Transparency 5/

Snow color

Basic-snow / Random seed / HIGHLIGHT the end box and type in 2890 / ok.

Adjust / blur / motion blur / angle 15 / strength 40 / ok.
Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more.

X out Rain 3

(This is the settings for a light rain if you want heavier rain change

 the size range at the end make it higher).

X out all the 3 rain layers for now.

Material Palette choose a gradient of your choice.

I used a silver-white cc

Tools / flood fill / fill the bottom layer with your Gradient

Click Pan.

Effects / Texture effects / mosaic glass / number of columns 60 /

 number of rows 60 / symmetric ticked / glass c 30 /  edge c 100 /

grout w 10 / grout d 100 ok.



Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more.

Duplicate until you have 3.

X out all layers.

un x rain 1 and the first tube layer and the first background layer.

Layers / Merge visible x out merged.

unx rain 2 / a tube layer and a background layer.

once again merge visible.

x out merged.

un x the last 3 layers and merge visible.



Un x the original tube and copy the copyright.

Paste the copyright as a new layer.

Tools deform tool move the copyright into position then click pan.

Also add your watermark.

Duplicate the copyright until you have 3.

X out all.

Un x the first copyright and merged and merge visible x out merged.

un x the next copyright and merged and merge visible x out merged.

Do the same with the last 2 layers.

Sharpen each merged layer.

Adjust / brightness and contrast / brightness and contrast / lower the brightness

 and contrast 0 / to make your tube darker


settings vary with each tube so use your own brightness settings.

Do this to each tube layer.

On your layer palette you should now have 3 merged layers all x out.

un x top layer and resize to 80 % by using image and resize make sure  resize 

all layers checked ok.

Material Palette choose the colours you want to use for your writing.

Click each box in turn and select the colour you want. (foreground

and background properties)

Tools / text tool big A / choose the font you want and the size use

 Your own judgement.

Write your name and click to apply it.

In layer palette convert vector to raster and duplicate writing until

You have 3.

Pair each layer with a merged layer and merge visible leaving 3 merged layers 

again.

File/Save as Animation shop psp or psp 7 format

Open in Animation shop

You will notice you have 3 frames.

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Test it works by selecting view / Animation or use the view animation Icon 

and repeat this step to stop it animating.

File save as give it a name and save type as GIF and your finished.

You could add a frame to your animation if you wanted but remember to

 duplicate the frame 3 times or it won’t work once you have added your  

animation.

This Tutorial was created by ©Mally on Sunday 12 November 2006 Art use with permission for the group

Redone 24 march 2012 after getting the personal permission for the Art I used

Permission Received Friday 2 March 2012

and is the property of

 Mally 

It may not be reproduced in another other format or

"taken"

 without the express written consent of the creator