Running Water This is my first tutorial for water animation

Running Water

This is my first tutorial for water animation.
There are other ways that I may explore in
future tutorials.

Graphic (here)
Mask (here)
PSP ( I wrote this for PSP8.
Others versions should work with little adjustments)

Open the graphic and the mask in PSP.

Layers- New Mask Layer - From Image
find the mask011 in click ok.

Layers - Merge- Merge group.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow.
H & V = 1; Opacity = 100; Blur = 0; Color black

Layers - New Raster Layer
Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom

Flood fill with your choice of colors
that you will use for your background.

Layer - New Raster Layer - Add your mark.

Layers - Merge - Merge All (flatten)

Using your lasso tool set to Point-to-Point
outline the water as show in the example below.
I have outlined it in red so you can see it easier.

Depress the ctrl and the D key twice to make
2 duplicates of your masked image.

With the first graphic and the ants marching
go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise
Uniform checked and 25%
Selection- Select none

With the second graphic and the ants marching
to back to Add Noise and choose 30 %
Selection - Select none.

On the third graphic with the ants marching.
use 35 % noise.
Selection - Select none.

With each graphic go to
File- Export- JPEG Optimizer- I used a compression of 20
Save as water1, water2, and water 3. in a folder where
you can find it.

Open animation shop. Click on the Animation Wizard.
Follow this sequence.
1. Same Size as the first frame. Next
2 Opaque. Next
3. Upper left corner
With canvas color
Next
4. Yes
25 ( or your choice)
Next
5. Click on Add Image,
Browse to the folder where you stored your water images.
Click on water3. While holding down you shift key, click on water2 and water1
Click Open.
Next
6. Finish.

You will see the 3 frames open. (Some may be off the screen.
Don't worry about that.

View - Animation

Save the animation as a .gif to a folder for you IncrediLetters.
This will be your header.

Close out AS.

Back to PSP

Open a transparent image 100X100
Flood fill with your background color.
I suggest you not add texture or noise.\
This letter is going to be big enough with the header
animated.

Optimize and save as a .jpg.

Open Letter Creator and create an Incredible IncrediLetter.

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Any resemblance to another tutorial is
purely coincidental. It is a result of my own playing in PSP 8.