© Alan Stevens www.bwcreek.com

Open a transparent canvas 500x500.
open your laptop tube,
copy and paste as new layer.
On your colour palette to the right,
set these colours.
Foreground: # 56555B
Background: #B7B7B7
Now select Gradient
use these settings.

New Raster Layer
Add your Text

Place just in front of your laptop keyboard.
Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel

Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow

Selections, Select None.
New Raster layer.
Using your selection tool

Draw a rectangle overlapping the monitor screen
like so.

Layers, Arrange, Send to bottom.
Add your watermark now!
Layers, Merge Visible.
Add your Drop Shadow same settings as before.
-
OK, now minimise this image for
the timebeing.
Now you need to work through another tutorial of
your choice.
(I just did a basic tag using preset shapes)
Take screen shots as you progress
showing the different stages you go through to make your tag.
To take a screen shot, you will find
a PRINT SCREEN button on your
keyboard.
then just right click and
Paste as New Image.
When you have all the screen shots you want,
including your finished tag,
count them up.
I had 13 shots for this tag.
Re-open your laptop image and duplicate
as many times as you have screen shots.
you then may find it easier to rename this layers 1-10 etc.
Once you have done this, hide all your layers,
by clicking on the glasses on your layer palette,
except layer 1.
Select your 1st screen shot.
Edit, Copy.
Select your laptop image.
Edit, Paste into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT TIL ALL
SCREEN SHOTS HAVE BEEN PASTED!
Ok, X out this layer and go to
layer 2.
Select your 2nd screen shot and paste that in the same way.
Carry on with this process until all
layers have screen shots in them.
Selections, Select None.
Now we need to save this as a psp tube/image depending what version you are using.
Choose your folder and save as work.psp

Now open Animation Shop.
File, browse and find the folder you saved you images to, and open.
You will find all the layers have been opened and made into frames.
Edit, Select All
Animation, Frame roperties and change the speed to 45.

Go to PSP.
Open your tube
and paste as new layer.
Add your Drop Shadow with the same settings as before.
Edit, Copy.
Back in AS
Edit, Paste as New Animation.
Edit, Copy
Edit, Paste After Current Frame.
Repeat the Edit, Paste til you have
the same number of frames as your laptop.
(the Shift, Ctrl and L works really quickly for this)
Edit, Select All
Edit, Copy.
Select your laptop frames.
Edit, Select All
Edit, Paste Into Selected Frame.
Left click on your mouse once you
are happy with her position.
Dont forget to add your watermark and any © infor needed in the same way


I hope you understood this ok.

20-02-04
©SassySarah