Aqua New Year

Aqua New Year

Materials

Open this picture or similar kind of picture in PSP

Edit – Copy

Open a new document in PSP 650 x 500 transparent

(or appropriate with your picture)

Edit – Paste – Paste into Selection

Selections – Select None

Duplicate the layer 2 times

Rename these layers, BG 1, BG 2 & BG 3

With Freehand Selection Tool – Point to Point

Select this portion

Right click inside the selection - Copy

Right click in the blank space in the canvas

Paste – Paste as New Image

Minimize it

Same way select the right side gate

Copy & paste, minimize

Open Left Side gate

Edit – Copy

Paste above BG 3 as new layer

With Move Tool place it above the original gate

With Raster Deform Tool – Scale mode

Pull the right side

Change the mode of Raster Deform to ‘Free’

Pull the right side top & bottom nod

a little downwards

Copy & paste the right side gate as new layer

Same way do the right side gate

Merge these 2 layers, rename the layer G 1

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Same way do another 2 times

Each time pull the gate a little

towards each other

rename these 2 layers G 2 & G 3

Now in G 3 layer, with Freehand Selection Tool

Select the handle and hit Delete in keyboard

Open BG 1 & G 1 layers, close all other layers

Select Clone Tool

Stand on BG 1 layer

Remove the extra gate from BG 1

Right click in the sky then left click in the gate

Likewise open BG 2 & G 2

BG 3 & G 3

Remove the extra gate from BG 2 & BG 3

Now open the original background

Close all other layer

Stand on the top layer

With Pen Tool draw 2 lines as shown

Layers - New Raster Layer

Write Happy New Year

Font, color & size is your choice

 Duplicate this text layer 11 times

So you have 12 text layers

Stand on the 1st text layer

With Eraser remove all except ‘H’

Stand on the 2nd text layer

With Eraser remove all except ‘HA’

Next layer ‘HAP’

Like this do all 11 layers

Last text layer will be as it is

Copy & paste the Dolphin as new layer

Rotate (Image – Rotate) & resize (Image – Resize)

Then remove the portion with Eraser

Again copy & paste the Dolphin as new layer

Image – Mirror and do the same

Again copy & paste the Dolphin as new layer

Place it a little higher

Erase below the line

Do the same to Mirror Image

We are done

Now animation

Close all layers- open BG 3 & G 3

Edit – Copy Merged

Paste in the Animation Shop – As New Animation

Then BG 2 & G 2, after that BG 1 & G 1

Then only background

All the time – Paste After Current Frame

Then add a new layer, write ‘H’

And move the ‘H’ with Move Tool

Follow the pictures

 

 

 

Each time delete the layer written ‘H’

Add another layer & write the next alphabet

Like A, P, P, Y, N, E, W, Y, E, A, R

At the same time open the erased 12 layers one by one

in the 4th frame

do not forget to close the red line before Copy Merged  

Timing

Gate layers = 50

Dolphin layers = 20

Last layer = 500