In my Darkest hour

In my Darkest hour

Credits are below on this page.

This tutorial is made in PSP X, Animation Shop and the plugin:

Xero

Materials

1 Open a new image 700 X 500 Pixels – transparent.

2 Put your foreground colour to: #232a2f and your background colour to:#b1b1b1.

3 Make a gradient from your background colour wit these settings:

4 Fill your image with the gradient.

5 Layers – new rasterlayer.

6 Selection – select all.

7 Op the tube with the violin, copy and paste into selection.

8 Selections – select none.

9 Put the blend mode to: Luminance and the opacity to 25%.

10 Effects – edge effects – enhance.

11 Open the tube with the water (SS_Gothic_27), copy and paste as new layer.

12 Move the tube all to the left so you can see only half of the image.

13 Put the blend mode to: Luminance (legacy) and the opacity to 40%.

14 Open the tube with the moon (Kat_0183), copy and paste as new layer.

15 Image – mirror.

16 Move the tube all to the right, the moon by the edge of the image.

17 Put the blend mode to: multiply and the opacity to 50%.

18 Open the tube with the raven, copy and paste as new layer.

19 Image – mirror.

20 Put the rave on the strings of the violoin.

21 Duplicate the layer (with the raven) in your layer-palette.

22 Activate the first raven.

23 Put the blend mode to Luminance.

24 Adjust – Blur – Gaussian blur – radius: 60.

25 Activate the upper layer.

26 Put the blend mode to: Luminance and the opacity to 50%.

27 Open the tube with the woman, copy and paste as new layer.

28 Image – resize – 80% - bicubic – all layers unchecked.

29 Move the tube to the right.

30 Duplicate the layer (with the raven) in your layer-palette.

31 Activate the first woman.

32 Adjust – Blur – Gaussian blur – radius: 60.

33 Layers – merge – merge all.

34 Effects – plug-ins – Xero – SoftMood:

Haziness: 4

Glow: 119

35 Put your foreground colour to black

36 Layers – new raster layer.

37 Open the airbrush and search in the menu for: BJ_darkesthour.

The settings are ok.

38 Place the brush down in the middle.(see example)

39 Click three times.

40 Layers – new raster layer.

41 Put now your foreground colour to b1b1b1.

42 now search for BJ_darkesthour2

43 Place the up to the left.

44 Click twice.

45 Image – add borders – 2 pixels – black – symmetric.

46 Image – add borders – 3 pixels – white – symmetric.

47 Image – add borders – 2 pixels – black – symmetric.

48 Put your water-mark on your creation and copy.

49 Open Animation-Shop and paste as new animation.

50 Click three times on the keys Ctrl/Shift L.(you now have 4 images)

51 Edit – select all.

52 Open the animation “Sparkle”.

53 Edit – select all.

54 Edit – copy.

55 Edit – paste – in selected frame.

56 Put the sparkles under the dress.

Repeats this.

57 File – save as ……………

I hope that you like this lesson.

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This tutorial is tested by: Rita, Angel en Jacandra.

Thanks Rita Thanks Angel

Thanks Jacandra

The tube with the moon is made by:

The tube with the woman is made by:

The tubes with the violin and the sea are mede by:

The animation is made by: ........................

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