Voodoo Moon

Supplies Needed:

Psp & Animation shop

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

Scrap kit Comtesse Alana (PTU) by Scrapz n Pleasure here

Animation 272 by Simone here

Mask 149 by Gems here

Plugins:

Eye candy 4000

Font here

Open a new image: 650x550

Open: snp-comtesse-papers02. C/p in the canvas, resize at 85 percent - Smart Size. 

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

Merge group. Duplicate. Merge visible

Open: snp-comtesse-elements34. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the left side. Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Arrange it in the right side.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements17. C/p in the canvas, place it in the center.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements15. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the top center. 

Effects - Plugins - Eyecandy 4000 - Gradient Glow:

Open: snp-comtesse-elements38. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it above the moon. In the layer palette change the blend mode to: Overlay.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements55. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom right. Apply gradient glow with the same settings.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements07. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Free Rotate: Right - 90 degrees. Place it in the center.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements48. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the center.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements19. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the top right, above of one of the branches.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements55. C/p in the canvas, resize at 45 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements29. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it above the wong.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements06. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. 

Image - Mirror. Place it in the bottom right.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements04. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom left.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements02. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

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

Open: snp-comtesse-elements32. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

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

Open: snp-comtesse-elements47. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the right side, above the stone tomb.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements11. C/p in the canvas, resize at 55 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the right side, next to the crystal ball.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements21. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Image - Free Rotate: Right - 50 degrees. Place it in the bottom right.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements60. C/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the right side, at the bottom.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements52. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements40. C/p in the canvas, resize at 40 percent - Smart Size. 

Place it in the bottom center.

Open: snp-comtesse-elements35. C/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent - Smart Size. Twice.

Place it in the bottom right side, next to the heart.

Sharpen the elements and apply shadow.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Open the tube c/p in the canvas and place it in the left side.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab:

Add the name and copyright info.

To animate:

Activate the moon layer (snp-comtesse-elements17).

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - HSB Noise:

opy merged. Open animation shop and paste as a new animation in animation shop.

Back to psp, undo the effect and apply again and change the random seed.

Copy merged, in animation shop, paster after current frame. Repeat two more times. ( 4 frames in total)

Activate the first frame, select all. Copy, click in the last frame and paste after current frame.

Continue until you have 16 frames.

Open: SimoneAni-272.mng

Animation - Resize at: 65 percent - Bicubic.

Activate the first frame, select all. 

Drag the animation into the tag, place it  into the left side of the cauldron. Back to the animation, undo the drag action.

Animation - Mirror. Drag the animation to the right side of the cauldron.

**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: 14, play the animation and save if you like! :)