Copy Cat

This tutorial is animated.
To view the animation click here

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
July 4th, 2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using
a tube by Maria Van Bruggen.
You can find the tube at
Dreamscape Imaging


Supplies:
Tube Of Choice
Animation Shop

Open a 600x600 new white image.
Open up your tube of choice.

Copy & paste your tube onto your
new image.

Select your preset rectangle tool.
On your materials palette,
Stroke -light color from tag.
Fill -dark color from tag.
Width 5.00

Draw out a good sized rectangle
about the height of part of your tube.
Convert to raster.
Move this layer behind your main tube.

Draw out a narrow vertical rectangle.
Move this layer behind the first two layers.
Duplicate once & move the copy layer to
the side slightly.

Add words of choice to the tag.
I chose the words " Hey Copy Cat".
Convert to raster.

Now back on your tube layer,
take your selection tool & select around
part of the tube you want to copy for animation.
Copy & paste as a new image in your psp.
If needed, erase parts around the image.

Resize all layers 88%.
Add artist copyright information & name.
We're going to start animation process now.

Open Animation Shop.
Copy merged your tag and paste as a new animation
into AS.

Now back in PSP, take your separate image from
your tube that you selected & copied earlier.
Paste as a new layer behind your tube layer.
You want part of it visible and the rest hidden.
For the tube I am using I pasted a piece of paper by the copy

machine to replicate it coming out of the copier.

Copy merged & paste after current frame in AS.

Go back to PSP. Move the paper or image over just slightly.
Copy merged & paste after the 2nd frame.
Repeat this step until you have 7 frames in AS.

Now staying in AS.
Edit Select all. Copy.
Paste after new animation.
Select all - Animation -Reverse Frames.
Copy.
Back to the original animation.
Select the 7th frame.
Paste after current frame.
Select all -Animation -Frame Properties -change to 15.
View animation.
If happy, save as gif.

Thanks for trying my tutorial.