The springtime you said goodbye

Supplies Needed:

Psp & Animation shop

Tube of choice. Art by SkyScraps, the tube is available here

Scrap kit Steampunk Kato (PTU) by SkyScraps here

Animation 261b & 265 by Simone here

Mask 151 by Gems here

Plugins:

Eye candy 4000

Font here

Open a new image: 650x600

Open: SkyScraps-SK-pp2. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 85 percent - Smart Size.

Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask from the disk:

With the mask layer activated. Resize at 95 percent - Smart Size.

Adjust - Add Blur - Gaussian Blur: Radius: 2 pixels.

Merge group. Duplicate. Activate the original mask layer.

Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Glass:

Activate the copy and in the layer palette change the blend mode to: Hard Light.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E44. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E47. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 60 percent - Smart Size.

Image - Flip. Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E36. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 75 percent - Smart Size.

Place it in the center.

Open the close up of the tube, c/p in the canvas and place it behind the frame.

Duplicate and in the layer palette change the blend mode to: Screen. Change the opacity to: 65.

Place all this elements behind the close up layer:

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E45. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.

Place it in the top left, behind the close up layer.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E67. C/p in the canvas place it in the right side.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E56. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E56. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E8. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E43. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 65 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top center.

Activate the frame layer.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E67. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Left - 75 degrees. Place it in middle of the frames.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E58. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Left - 90 degrees. Place it in middle of the frames.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E4. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 35 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in middle of the frames, eraser any excess.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E53. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Left - 70 degrees. Place it in middle of the frames.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E66. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in middle of the frames. Duplicate and place it in the bottom right corner-

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E58. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 70 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Right - 70 degrees. Place it in middle of the frames.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E16. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E14. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E51. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E41. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top left corner of the frame.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E62. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Imag - Mirror. Place it in the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E53. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E11. C/p in the canvas. Duplicate. Activate the original layer.

Resize at 80 percent - Smart Size. Place it in the bottom center. 

Activate the duplicate. Resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. Place it in the bottom left.

Duplicate and move it to the bottom right.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E25. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E13. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Right - 80 degrees. Place it in the bottom center.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E3. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E30. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E17. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left, next to the hat.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E7. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 35 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top left.

Open: SkyScraps-SK-E6. C/p in the canvas. Resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice. 

Place it in the bottom right.

Sharpen the elements and apply shadow.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Open the tube, C/p in the canvas, resize if it's needed and place it at the right side.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright info.

To animate:

Close all the layers below above the close up layer.

Merge visible the open layer. Copy merged.

Open animation shop and paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 17 frames.

Open: SimoneAni265.mng

Activate the first frame, select all.

Animation - Cull Animation: Remove 1 frame every 5 frames. 

Drag into the tag and place it in the bottom center, above the tube.

Back to psp. Close the merged layer and open all the closed layers.

Copy merged. Paste as a new animation in animation shop.

Duplicate until you have 17 frames. Activate the first frame, select all. 

Drag into the tag and place it where it belongs.

Open: SimoneAni261B. 

Activate the first frame, select all.

Animation - Cull Animation: Remove 1 frame every 5 frames. 

Drag into the tag and place it in the left side, above the fence and in the right side, above the tube.

**Adding a background to the transparent animation.

Animation - Animation Propieties

Change the black color for the color of your choice, mine is white:

Apply and the color will be applied in all the frames selected.

Change the speed to: 12, play the animation and save if you like! :)