One tube of your choice, free or not, but in either case, credit must be given on the tag. I used a tube ©Jamie Kidd - http://jamiekidd.com.
It must be bought and you need a license to use it. Bought at CILM but now to be bought at Creative Design Outlet.

Scrapkit: Counting Sheep, free and offered by Tita's Designs.

Mask: Star Fade Border mask by Essex Girl on page 12 of her site Artwork by Essex Girl.

Plugins:

Fonts: Pixelette for the credits; Alcohol Licks, Starry Night and Tempus sans ITC.

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STEP 1

Open a new transparent image 650x500. Add a layer and fill with white.

STEP 2: Animation

Open E30. Resize to 53%. Copy paste towards the top, on the right - see my result. Then duplicate until you have 7 copies.
Important: Name these layers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Close all layers except layer 1.

Le mouton du calque 1: Open the sheep E2 and resize to 40%.
Copy paste as a new layer under the first circle on the left.
Rotate it 50° to the left.
Place it so that the head and part of the body is in the circle.


Close all layers except the sheep and 1. Merge visible and rename 1. Add a drop shadow:

V = 2	O = 50
H = 2	B = 3

Close the 1 layer and open 2.

Sheep on 2 layer: E2 at 40%.
Copy paste as a new layer and position above the 2 layer in the 2nd circle.
Duplicate and move the copy under the 2 layer.
Activate the origianl sheep layer and with the lasso tool, select the bottom and back legs. Click on Delete. We want to give the impression that the sheep is jumping through the circle.




Merge visible the 2 sheep layers and the 2 layer and rename 2.  Add the same drop shadow.
Close this 2 layer and open 3.

Sheep on  3 layer: E2 at 40%.
Copy paste as a new layer above the 3 layer.
Rotate the sheep 60° to the left.
Duplicate and move this copy under the 3 layer.
Activate the original sheep layer and select the head and front paws and the top part of the body and hit Delete. The sheep will now look as if jumping through the circle.
Selections > Select none. 


Merge visible the 2 sheep layers and the 3 layer and rename 3. Apply the same drop shadow.
Close this 3 layer and open 4.

Sheep on 4 layer: E3 at 40%.
To be added to the 4th circle.
Duplicate the sheep layer and move under the circle.
With the lasso tool, select the bacl legs and the body right up under the front paws and Delete.
Selections > Select none.




Merge visible the 2 sheep layers and the 4 layer and rename 4. Apply the same drop shadow.
Close this 4 layer and open 5.

Sheep on 5 layer: E2 at 40%. Image > Mirror.
Merge visible the 5 layer and the sheep.
Same drop shadow.

Sheep on 6 layer: E1 at 40%. Image > Mirror.
Merge visible the 65 layer and the sheep.
Same drop shadow.

Keep the 7 layer as is, without a sheep.
Same drop shadow.

STEP 3: Layers under the Sheep Animation

Open the white background.
The grass E26 at 50%. Add as a new layer on the right.
The fence E4 at 25% to be added above the grass layer on the right. Duplicate and move the copy to the left.
Image > Mirror on the first fence layer.
Same drop shadow on both fences.

Activate the white background.
Add a layer and fill with a gradient in the tones of blue. I used #156593 for the abckground and white for the foreground but use whatever colours you like.



Mask: Open the Star Fade Border mask. Masks > New > From image - OK. Then Masks > Delete. In PSP 8 and above, it's under Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image. OK then Delete.
Select the whole of the bottom part of the mask, the part below the grass and fences, then fill this whole area with a green to match the grass.
Activate the grass layer and apply the same mask.

STEP 4: Elements above the Sheep Animation

The circular frame E19 at 68%. Place on the left as a new layer - see my tag. The first O, the first circle of the animation must be partly covered, just a tiny bit.
My frame was then colorized. I used one of my tube colours #8E608A.
Adjust > Hue and Saturation with the Hue at 215 and the saturation at 49. 
Click inside the frame with the magic wand and Selections > Modify > Increase by 5 pixels.
Add a layer and fill with a colour of your choice or mine #8E608A.
Apply penta.com> Color dot


Selections > Select none.
Same drop shadow on the frame.

Add the tube of your choice.
Apply the same drop shadow.

Duplicate the 7 layer of your sheep animation and move the copy above the E19 frame.
Activate this copy and with the lasso tool select most of the circles as I have done below and hit Delete.


Keep just a tiny bit, crescent shape on the left.

Add some little stars here and there. E13 - resized to 10%, 12% and 15%.
Add the moon E12 at 40%
Add the cloud E6 at 25%. Duplicate and resize the copy at 70%.
STEP 5: One sheep... two sheep ... three sheep...etc.. text

Trace a wavy line with the draw tool set as follows:
Set your Foreground (stroke) colour to black and your Background (Fill) colour to Null.
Choose free hand, vector, width of 1


Place the mouse pointer right on the line and click once when you see this .
The text box will open and you can now write my text One Sheep ... two sheep ...three sheep ... four sheep ... five sheep ... or one of your choice, using the font Tempus Sans ITC with antialias on, vector, in size 16, black.
Click on the + sign in the Layers Palette.
Close the freehand layer and convert the vector layer to a raster layer.

Apply Eye Candy 4000> Gradient Glow




And a drop shadow.
 

V = 2	O = 30
H = 2	B = 2

STEP 6: Good Night text or text of your choice
  
  New layer. Write Good with the Alcohol Licks font, size 55, Bold, colour #8E608A. 
  Apply an Inner Bevel.

And the same drop shadow you used for the other text.

On a new layer, write Night with the Starry Night font, size 55, Bold, colour #54B7D0.
Appthe same Inner Bevel.
Then the same Gradient Glow.
Then rotate 20° left
Apply the the same drop shadow.

STEP 7: Credits

With a small font like Pixelette, in size 6, anti-alias off.

STEP 8: Animation dans Animation Shop

Close the following layers: all 7 layers of your sheep animation and all the layers above the sheep animation. Only the layers below the sheep animation are left open.
Close the white background.
Merge visible all the other layers and name Scenery 1.
Close Scenery 1 and open all the layers above the sheep animation. Merge visible and name Scenery 2.

Open Scenery 1 and the 1 layer of your sheep animation and Scenery 2.
Merge visible all 3 layers.
Copy paste in Animation Shop.

Go back to PSP.
Click on Undo.
Close the 1 layer of the sheep animation and open the 2 layer.
Merge visible the 3 layers.
Copy paste in Animation Shop after the current frame.

Go back to PSP.
And repeat the same steps for each layer of the sheep animation. There are 7 in all.

In Animation Shop, activate the first frame.
Edit > Select All.
Right click > Image Propeties and enter 40 for the speed.

Click on View and check the animation and see if 40 as the speed suits you. If it does not, change it.
The higher the number, the slower the animation.

Click on Animation > Animation Properties > Canvas color - choose opaque and white. The background stays white when you do it this way.
File > Save As.

Martine

26 May 2011

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