Adding
Sparkles
A zip file below has a graphic of
a cute angel lamb. We are going to add sparkles to certain areas of the
image. You will also need a sparkle tube Find Here.
Open the lamb image in PSP and using the freehand selection tool select the parts of the
image you want to add sparkle to. I am going to add sparkles to the hearts
and the bow. (by holding the shift key down you can choose more than one
selection)
Here you can see that
the two hearts and the bow around his neck are all selected. We want to
Promote this layer to Raster if it is a background layer in the layer
palette. Now duplicate this layer at least three times. You can do
more if you prefer. Then go to Adjust/ Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise.
Use the settings as below:
Random Seed, and
50% on the noise level.
Next go to the next
layer and this time choose 25% on the noise level. Then the third layer
change to 60% noise. If you have more than three layers keep changing the
noise level until all layers are done. Deselect.
Now get your tiny
sparkle tube out and add a couple of random sparkles to each layer.
Save your image as a
.pspimage and open in Animation Shop.
You should have as many
frames as you did layers in PSP. Run the animation Preview and adjust the
display time and voila! There is sparkles.
Have
Fun!
