Mermaid's Story

Supplies Needed:

Psp & Animation shop

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

Scrap kit Mermaid's Realm (PTU) by Angelica Sellers here

Animation 142 by Simone here 

Plugins:

Eye candy 4000

Font here

Open a new image: 650x500

Selections - All.
Open: paper17. Copy and paste into the selection. Deselect.

Open the close up of the tube. C/p in the canvas.
Place it in the top right side. Make a selection around the eyes and delete (eraser) the rest. Change the opacity to: 50 percent.

Open: element13.  C/p  in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the right side, below the close up.

Open: element80. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the left side.

Open: element79. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the left top side.

Open: element11. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the right side, middle side.

Open: element64. C/p  in the canvas, Place it in the middle center.

Open: element30. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the middle center. Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Move it below the element 11.

Open the tube, c/p in the canvas and resize if it's needed. Place it in the left side.
Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Open: element06. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the bottom left.

Open: element26. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.
Place it in the bottom left, next to the doodle.

Open: element59. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size.
Image - Free Rotate - Right: 70 degrees. Place it in the bottom left.

Open: element81. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the bottom left.

Open: element12. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the bottom left corner.

Open: element18. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.
Place it in the bottom left corner.

Open: element76. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.
Place it in the bottom left.

Open: element55. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.
Place it in the bottom left.

Open: element16. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.
Place it in the right side.

Open: element84. C/p  in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size.
Image - Mirror. Place it in the bottom right corner.

Image - Picture Frame: 

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise:
Random
39 percent
Monochrome

Sharpen the elements and apply shadow.
Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright info.

To animate:
Activate the paper layer. Grab the selection tool with this settings:

Make a selection around the top part:

Copy. Open animation shop and paste as a new animation.
Effects -  Insert Image Effect:

 

Delete the first frame.
Back to psp. Deselect the selection. Copy the paper. In animation shop: paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 20 frames.
Drag the underwater animation you did and place it where it belong in the paper.

Open: SimoneAni142-mng.mng
Activate the first frame, select all.
Animation - Cull Animation: Remove 1 frame every 6 frames.
Animation - Resize: 85 percent - Bicubic.
Drag into the tag and place it in the left top side.

Back to psp. Close the paper layer. Copy merged all the open layers.
In animation shop: paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 20 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 Propieties
Change the black 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: 15, play the animation and save if you like! :)