In this lesson we will create a
candle flame. You will need the candle image here or one of your
own. in the first step we need to pull just the flame part out.
Taking our freehand selection tool in PSP select just the flame as
below.
See where
the marquise is around the candle flame? Now copy the flame and paste as a
new transparent image. With the flame image highlighted go to Effects /
Distortion Effects / Punch and use these settings.
Strength
is set at 50%.
Now go back to the candle image and
make sure that the flame is deselected. We are going to duplicate this
layer. Go to your layer palette and right click and choose
Duplicate. This will another identical layer to our image. This
layer should now be selected, if not click on the layer in the layer palette.
Going back to our flame image copy
it by going to Edit / Copy or by hitting CTRL + C.
Then Pasting over the flame in our
second layer, and Deselect.
Once more go to the flame image and
use the punch filter again set at 50%. Duplicate the second layer on our
candle image and paste the new flame on top. This should give
you three layers with the different
sized flames.
Now save this image as a
pspimage. Go to Animation Shop and open this there.
Your three layers should now be
three frames. Run your Animation Preview and you will see your candle
flame flickering! Adjust the display time if you need to and then optimize
and save your new animation.
Here is mine below, I have added
glitter text to mine.
Have Fun!
