Armed and Dangerous

Supplies Needed:

Psp & Animation shop

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

Scrap kit Army Girl (PTU) by Skyscraps here

Animation 373 by Simone here 

Plugins:

Eye candy 4000

Font here

Open a new image: 600x450.

Open: SkyScraps-E15. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the left side.

Open: SkyScraps-E21. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top center.

Open: SkyScraps-E51. C/p in the canvas, resize at 65 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center. With the magic wand click inside of the frame and expand the selection: 10 pixels.

Open: SkyScraps-PP3. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 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 frame.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect.  

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Open: SkyScraps-E19. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the left side.

Open: SkyScraps-E70. C/p in the canvas, resize at 75 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center. Duplicate.

Open: SkyScraps-E68. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Mirror. Place it in the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-E20. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the right side.

Open: SkyScraps-E67. C/p in the canvas, resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the right side.

Open: SkyScraps-E13. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-E57. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: SkyScraps-E5. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: SkyScraps-E7. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: SkyScraps-E8. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-E66. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the top right.

Open: SkyScraps-E11. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top left.

Open: SkyScraps-E71. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the top left.

Open: SkyScraps-E1. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-E65. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Image - Mirror. Place it in the top left.

Sharpen the elements and apply shadow.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright info.

To animate:

Close all the layers below the element: SkyScraps-E67 (with this layer included)

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

Open the closed layers. Copy Merged.

Open animation shop and paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 15 frames.

Open: SimoneAni373.mng

Activate the first frame, select all. 

Animation - Resize at 60 percent - Bicubic.

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

Back to psp. Open and activate the layer 1. 

Copy and paste as a new animation in animation shop.

Duplicate until you have 15 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! :)