Magik Fall

Supplies Needed: 

PSP 

Tube of choice. Art by SkyScraps. Find the tube: here

Cluster frame by me: here

Masks by Gems 27 here

Plugins:

Muras Meister  Cloud

Eyecandy 4000

Font here

Open the cluster, pick one of the versions. Copy and paste as a new image.

Close the original file.

make a gradient with two colors from the tube:

fore: #d9ba55

back: #972f00

repeats 0

Style: Sunburst

Add a new layer, send to the bottom. Flood fill with the gradient.

Effects - Texture Effects - Fine Leather:

Effects - Art Media Effects - Black Pencil:

Detail: 80

Opacity: 15

**Note: Depending of your chosen colors, you must to change the opacity intensity.

Adjust - Add Noise:

uniform

20 percent

Monochrome

Duplicate the layer.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 5

In the layer palette, change the blend mode to: Overlay.

Merge down the layers.

Layers - Load mask: gemsmask-27

Merge group.

Duplicate 2 more times. Merge down.

Duplicate again, Image - Free Rotate:

left - 90 degrees.

Merge the masks layers.

Activate the background layer. 

Flood fill with a light color: #d9ba55

Selections All - Float - Defloat.

Effects - Plugins - Muras Meister - Clouds:

Deselect.

Open the tube, c/p in the canvas.

Effects - Plugins - Eyecandy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright. Export as a jpg or png now, if you want a non animated tag.

Activate the selection tool:

Make 3 rectangles (hold the ctrl key, to do multiple selections):

Selections - Modify - Feather: 10 pixels.

Add a new layer, name it: 1. (do not flood fill, blank layer)

Invert the colors, in the materials palette. Lighter color, in the background.

Effects - Plugins - Muras Meister - Clouds:

Add a new layer, name it: 2. 

Apply the cloud effect but change the:

Cubic: 15

Add a new layer, name it: 3. 

Apply the cloud effect but change the:

Cubic: 10

To animate:

Close the layers: 2 and 3. In the layer palette click on the eye.

Add a new layer, flood fill with white, send to the bottom.

Copy Merged. Open animation shop, paste as a new animation.

Back to psp, close the layer: 1 and open the layer: 2.

Copy merged, paste after current frame.

Back to psp, close the layer: 2 and open the layer: 3.

Copy merged, paste after current frame.

Select all the frames and change the speed to: 17

Play the animation and save if you like it!