Supplies:
Tube of your choice, i have used one from keith Garvey please do not use without proper license. You can purchase one here.
Preset of your choice you can find more here
PSP - You can download a trial here.
Animation shop
Xenofex 2.0 puzzle
On to the tut :)
1. Open a transparent graphic 500 x 500.
2. Open your tube. Choose 2 colors out of it and minimize it for now.
3. Get your preset shape tool out. Create as vector, line style solid, 1.0 width and choose your preset shape of choice. Do it to the size you want it leaving room for your tube and some text. Stretch it out to your desired shape/size.
4. Convert it to raster. Selections, select all, float and then defloat. Duplicate it two times so you have a total of three.
5. Effects, xenofex 2.0 and puzzle at this setting.
6. Go to the next layer and do the puzzle again same settings but click knockout 10% remaining pieces and click connector shape random seed 1 time.
7. Repeat last step with the next shape layer and deselect.
8. Click on the top layer and copy your tube and paste it as a new layer. Add a drop shadow of your choice.
9. Add your text and copyrights and merge down into the tube. On your tube layer you should now have the text, tube and copyrights on the one layer. Duplicate your tube layer 2 times. You should have 3 tube layers, 3 preset shape layers and one background layer at this point.
10. Click on your background layer. Flood fill with a color of your choosing or you can create a pattern, this is up to you. Remember this graphic is animated we don't want to get it to busy. Duplicate your background 2 times.
11. Close off 2 tube layers, 2 preset shape layers and 2 background layers. Go to the bottom layer of your background that's not closed off. Hit merge visible. Close this layer off.
12. Open your middle layer of all three and merge visible. Close this layer.
13. Open your last 3 of your tube,shape and background and merge visible.
14. Open the other 2 layers and save as a pspimage.
15. Open animation shop and open this graphic.
16. Click on the top blue bar of your graphic. Hit control-A to highlight all your frames, right click the top blue bar and choose frame properties. I used 50. You may use a smaller number so it'll be faster or a bigger number for slower. I think it depends on the shape size, color and style for the speed. Choose the number you think makes yours look best.
17. Resize it by going to animation, resize animation and then optimize and save!
You are finished!!
Remember the tutorial is copyrighted to me, the results are yours to do with as you please. you may change things in this tut to make it your own. This is really to show you how to use the puzzle effect and animate it. Please feel free to take liberties with the graphic and have fun. I'd love to see what you come up with. If you would like your results on our results page please email them to me. Please do not copy and paste this tutorial on any other websites, forums, or emails. It is registered with twinc and is copyrighted to me.
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