Rocket Launching

Rocket Launching

Materials

 

   

Foreground color #000000

Background color # 3899FC

Make a Foreground-background gradient

Angle & Repeat 0, invert checked

Open a transparent document in PSP 540 x 900

Paint with the gradient. Minimize it

Open another transparent document in PSP 540 x 900

Effects – Plug-in – Flaming Pear – Glitterato

If you do not have Glitterato, use night sky color

Place the planets as new layers like this

Merge visible

Open a new document 540 x 1800

Paste the previous two documents as new layer

Like this

Use eraser in the joint. Merge visible.

Rename it sky

Minimize it. We don’t required previous

two documents any more

Open a new document 520 x 700

We shall work in this document

Copy & paste sky as new layer

Use some grass & trees as background

With pen tool draw a launching pad

Copy & paste the rocket as new layer

Copy & paste the rocket another 12 layers

With move tool place those little upwards in each layer

Zoom the whole thing for perfection

Rename these layers R1 to R13

Copy the sky ( which we have minimized earlier )

Paste as new layer below R1

With move tool draw little downward

Lower the opacity to 40 for adjustment

After placing the layer, back to opacity 100

Like this paste sky as new layer several times,

this is still in your mouse

and draw each layer a little downward.

Use View – Ruler, for uniform gap

Rename these layers S1, S2, S3 ….

I have done up to S33

When you reach at the end point, can’t move

the sky down anymore

Copy & paste rocket several times above R13

Rename these layers F1, F2 ….

Stand on F1. Image – Rotate – Free Rotate 4 left

Move little upward

Like this in each layers ( F2, F3 … )

Add 4. Such as 4,8,12,16,20 ….

and move upward

Now close all layers

Open S1 & R1. Stand on R1 layer

Effects – Plug-in – Eye Candy 4000 – Fire

Do not change Direction, circled with red

You can change other settings if you like

Keep S1 open and do this to each layer

R2 to R13 but click Random Seed

Once in each layer

In each layer go to Edit – Copy Merged

and paste in Animation Shop

when you reached R13, click undo in PSP

Keep R13 selected, open one by one

S2, S3 ….S33

Each time use Eye Candy 4000 Fire

But click on Random Seed, then after pasting on

Animation Shop, click undo

When you reach S33, keep selected the layer

Now use Fire in F1, F2 …

But this time change Direction by adding 4 in each layer

Like 274, 278, 282 …

Do not forget to click Random Seed each time

In Animation shop, timing by default 10

Hope I have not messed the tutorial

If you have any problem in understanding

Send me a mail in any language

abhijit2011b@gmail.com

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