Mountain Stream

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on Feb 13, 2011

For more information read my TOU

Supplies needed

Sqirlz Water Reflection which is a free program.  You can get it here

For a tutorial on how to use the program go here but I'll show you what you need to know for this tut

Animation shop

Plugins

Eyecandy 5 Impact Gold Chrome Abstract Penny

You will need a mountain image with water.  The one I used is by Jon Rattenbury.  You will need a license to use which you can purchasehere

This image may be used with any PTE artist

The tube I used is by Tim Lowery.  You need a license to use which you can purchase here

Open your image, shift D to duplicate and close original

Resize to 85%

Copy and paste as a new image

Save to your hard drive and close

Back to your duplicated image

Undo resize

Gaussian blur radius 10

New layer

Apply eyecandy gold chrome abstract penny with default settings

Select all

Contract 5

Delete

Deselect

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance

Merge down

Open your Sqirlz program

Open your resized image, the one you saved.  It will look kind of distorted but this will not show up in your result

With the selection tool (the one that looks kind of like a lasso) select around the water

When you end where you stared right click on it

Now click on the wavy lines up above

Leave everything on default except Motion Type, change this to E

Now click on Add Flow

I put the flow direction on 60 and the flow strength on 2

Click on the yellow arrow

X out of the settings

You'll now see your animation

If you're happy with it click on gif on the upper right

Click on ok

Name your animation

Click on ok again

Open animation shop

Open your animation

I have 20 frames

Select all

Copy and paste into your psp program

Now you will need to paste each layer onto your merged image

Activate the top layer

Select all>float>defloat

New layer

Apply eyecandy gold chrome with same settings as before

Contract 4

Delete

Enhance edge

Do Not Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Move to lower right

Invert your selection

Delete

Deselect

Merge down

Add your © info and any other text you may want to add

Merge down

Hide all layers except the top one and the bottom 2

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Back to psp, undo your merge

Hide the bottom animation layer, the one above your background layer and unhide the 2nd one

Merge visible

Copy and paste after current in animation shop

Repeat these steps all the way up

You should have 20 frames

Frame properties 10

Save as gif and you're all done!

I would love to see your results, just email it to me.  The link is on the right

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

:)

Result by Kaye W