Skydiving

Skydiving

Materials

 

  

Open a new document 670 x 450 transparent

Paint with color # 8DC5FF

Change foreground color to # FFFFFF

Layers – New Raster Layer

Click on Brush Tool, select cloud

Adjust size & click once to paint some cloud

For cloud brash & to know how to install brush

See my tutorial ‘Aircraft’

You can download different cloud brushes

from my tutorial ‘Give Touches to a Landscape’

You can use those both in Photoshop & Paintshop

Crop some grass from any picture – Paste as new layer

Place in the bottom

Copy & paste the tree several times to create a forest

Merge those tree layers

Layers – New vector layer

With Pen Tool draw a line at the top

 Copy & paste the plane as new layer several times

With Move Tool, move the plane

A little left in each layer

Do not give any gap; I have given just to show you

Add another vector layer

With Ellipse Shape Tool draw an ellipse

Resize the skydivers according to your background

Copy & paste several times below forest layer

With move tool place them like this

With rectangle selection tool select this portion

Right click inside the selection – Copy

Paste as a new layer above last Skydiver layer

Duplicate the layer 4 times

Rename these layers R1, R2, R3, R4 & R5

Click on Brush & select Warp Brush

with the setting below

Stand on R1 layer; left click in the middle of the parachute

Press & hold a little. Parachute will be smaller

Stand on R2, press & hold a little more

Like this do R3, R4 & R5

If you are not satisfied with the size

click undo at the top, and do it again

With Move Tool place the parachute like this

Copy & paste the paratrooper as a new layer

and place in this position

Duplicate several times. Duplicate from original

Do not duplicate from duplicate

Add another vector layer at the top

With pen tool draw a line

With Move Tool place the paratrooper like below

We are done

Now Animation

When the plane reach this point

Open the skydiver

Then open & close the layers in combination

Plane & skydiver

Open last 5 skydiver layers

In combination with R1, R2, R3, R4 & R5

Then the paratrooper

Open & close one by one

Timing by default 10