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Square Marquee  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! Before you begin, you will need to pick 3 colors--a center background color, rim color#1, and rim color#2 1. Click New File in the top menu bar. Enter these settings: width=126, Height=48, Resolution=72.000 pixels/inch, Backround color=transparent, image type=16.7 Million Colors (24 Bits). Click Ok. Make the foreground color be your choice for the center background color. Choose the flood fill tool (paint can) and flood-fill this color in your new image on Layer 1. Click File--Save As and save this file as blinky.psp.
2. Now add any text and graphics you would like on your blinky. Remember that there will be about a 5-pixel marquee, so don't let your graphics or text run into this rim along your file.
3. Add a new raster layer,
by clicking Layers--Add raster layer and call the layer blink1.
4. Find the folder you saved the selections in by going to that folder in the Look in: box. Select 7rimRDB1.sel file and click open.
Your image will now have these selected squares along the rim.  5. Flood-fill the squares with your choice of rimcolor#1.  6. Change your foreground
color to rimcolor#2.
 7. Add a new raster layer,
by clicking on Layers--add raster layer and call it blink2.
 8. Still on the same layer,
Click Selections--Load from Disk--7rimRDB2.sel.
9. So now you have 3 layers: background (layer1) , blink1, blink2. RIGHT-click on background layer (layer 1) and duplicate it.
Then left-click on the duplicate layer and drag it up between the blink1 layer and blink2 layer, like the image below. X out the background layer and the blink1 layer by clicking on the eyeglasses.
10. Make sure that the duplicate layer is selected and click Layers--Merge--Merge Visible.
10. Now x out the merged layer, and take the x off the blink1 and background layers. Click on the background layer to select it.
11. Click on Layers--merge--merge
visible. Now you have 2 layers. Take the x's off BOTH layers,
and save!
12. Open up the Jasc Animation Shop, by clicking File--JASC Software Products--Launch Animation Shop. 13. Open the file you saved by clicking on the yellow folder and finding the blinky.psp file that you have just saved. When the file opens, both layers will be there. 14. At the top, click on Edit--Select all. 15. RIGHT-click on one of the frames , and select frame properties. Change the display time to 15. Click ok. 16. 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! 17. You can view your animation by RIGHT-clicking on a frame and choose VIEW animation. And there you have it! Your own blinky. 
© Dragonl's Breath (aka The Dragon Lord), 2001-2003. This tutorial and the blinky graphics are copyright to The Dragon Lord, 2003, 2002. Please do not remove this tutorial from my site. Share my url. |
