American Sweetheart

Supplies Needed:

Psp & Animation shop

Tube of choice. Art by Celineart, the tube is available here

Scrap kit American Girl (PTU) by Toxic Desirez here

Animation 473 by Simone here

Plugins:

Eye candy 4000

Color Efex Pro 3.0

Font here

Open a new image: 650x550.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Splatter. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top right. Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Image - Flip. Arrange it in the bottom left.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Discoball. C/p in the canvas, resize at 75 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Frame 3. C/p in the canvas, resize at 75 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Wire. C/p in the canvas, resize at 95 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Frame 1. C/p in the canvas, resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center. With the magic wand click inside of the frame and expand the selection: 5 pixels.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Paper 4. C/p in the canvas, resize at 85 percent - Smart Size.

Place it below the frame. Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Selections - Invert.

Open the tube, c/p in the canvas, resize if it's needed and place it in the center.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect. 

Duplicate the tube layer and apply to the copy:

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0:

*click to see it full size*

 In the layer palette change the blend mode to: Overlay.

Activate the top layer.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Lollipop 2. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom right.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - String. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Ribbon. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Flame. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left side.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Star Border. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom right side.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Candy 2. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Lips. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the left side.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Skull Cone. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left side.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Bow 1. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom right side.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Flower 2. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Skull 2. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Image - Mirror. Place it in the bottom center.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Butterfly. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top left.

Open: Kristin - American Girl - Sparkles. C/p in the canvas and place it in the bottom center.

Sharpen the elements and apply shadow.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright info.

To animate:

Close the layers below the frame. (with this layer included)

Merge visible all the open layers. Rename it: 1. Close it.

Open the layers closed and copy merged. 

Open animation shop and paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 16 frames.

Open: SimoneAni473-MNG.mng

Activate the first frame, select all. 

Drag into the tag and place it in the bottom left.

Back to psp. Open the layer 1 and copy, paste as a new animation in animation shop.

Duplicate until you have 16 frames.

Activate the first frame, select all. Drag into the tag and place it where it belongs.

**Adding a background to the transparent animation.

Animation - Animation Properties

Change the back color for the color of your choice, mine is white.

Apply and the color will be applied in all the frames selected.

Change the speed to: 11, play the animation and save if you like! :)