 I claim the copyright to this tutorial. You are free to do whatever you please with what you make, but please do not take my tutorial. Do not send the tutorial through email. Only share my link. This tutorial was created for some friends of mine who wanted to begin learning more about PSP. It is intended for upper beginners to learn how to make blinkies. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. This tutorial uses selections that I have made. Click on the link to download the zipped file of my selections, then unzip into a folder onto your hard drive. Download Selections To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro. I used Paint Shop Pro 7.04 . You may download a free trial at Jasc. Remember to save as a psp file often! Before we begin, you might want to study the PSP tool bars. I have labeled the tools on another page. Click on the link and it will open a new page. You may want to keep this page open while you work on the tutorial, to refer to the names now and then. PSP Tools Now that you have studied the tools, let's begin! 1. Click New File in the top menu bar. Enter these settings: width=150, Height=48, Resolution=72.000 pixels/inch, Backround color=transparent, image type=16.7 Million Colors (24 Bits). Click Ok. Click File--Save As and save this file as blinky.psp.  3. In top menu, click Effects--3D Effects--Inner Bevel. Apply these settings: pie-shapped bevel, width=14, smoothness=15, depth=12, ambience=8, shininess=50, angle=86, intensity= 50, and elevation= 30. Click ok!  
4. In top menu, click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB150.sel  
5. From Top mneu, click Image--Crop to Selection  6. Now add any tubes and text to the image.   8. In top menu, click Selections--Load From Disk--6RDB1.sel  Make sure that the copy layer is activated.  9. In top menu, Click Colors--Adjust--Brightness/Contrast. Set brightness=75, and contrast = 0. Click ok.   Your strip should have brightened:  10. Still on the same layer, Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB7.sel In top menu, click Colors--Adjust--Brightness/Contrast. Brightness = 75. Click ok.  11. Right-click on the copy layer and choose rename, call it strip 1.  12. Right-click on Layer one and duplicate.  13. Drag the layer to the top.  14. Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB2.sel Adjust the brightness to 75 (see step 9).  15. Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB6.sel Adjust the brightness to 75 (see Step 9). Right-click on the Layer and rename to Strip2.  16. Right-click on Layer 1(bottom), and duplicate. Drag the layer to the top. Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB3.sel Adjust the brightness to 75 (see step 9). Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB5.sel Adjust the brightness to 75 (see Step 9). Right-click on the Layer and rename to Strip3.  17. Right-click on Layer 1(bottom), and duplicate. Drag the layer to the top. Click Selections--Load from Disk--6RDB4.sel Adjust the brightness to 75 (see step 9). Right-click on the Layer and rename to Strip4. 
18. Right-click on Layer4 and duplicate.  19. From left menu choose your tube tool. Choose a sparkle tube, set at scale=35. The sparkle tube is included in the zipped selections file.  20. Place one sparkle on top of the bright center strip of the copy of strip4. 21. Save this file as sparkblinky.psp 22. Open up Animation Shop and open up the sparkblinky.psp file. 23. In top menu, click Edit--Select All. In top menu, click Animation--reverse frames. Right-click on any frame and choose frame properties. Set the time length to 20. 24. Click once on the frame that has NO brighten strips.
This should be your last frame. Right-click on it and change the
time length to 75
25. Now Save your animation: Click File--Save As.  Type your file name. Click Customize.  Click the Partial Transparency tab.  Set the Convert to pixels,--less than 1%. Click No, use existing image color or select a light gray in the color box at 100% opacity. Click ok.  Click Next, Next, Next, and Finish! 26. You can view your animation by RIGHT-clicking on a frame and choose VIEW animation. And there you have it! Your own blinky.
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