RADIANT STAR

Hooteye May 2009

This Tutorial will show you how to achieve the Radiant Star effect shown in the
below tag, as it is only a 6 Frame Animation, it should prove quick and easy to do

This Tutorial was wrote for PSP8 but I have also tested it in PSP X
any resemblance to any other tut on the web is purely coincidental.

As demonstrated in some of my other Tuts, we will again be using Brush Tips and Grid
Lines as far as I know I am the originator for making animations using this method.

The Brush Tips used in this Tutorial were created by me using
PSP 8, they will therefore work in all higher versions of PSP.

There are no restrictions on my Brush Tips but if you share them
with other groups, will you kindly keep my file names intact.

For those interested in seeing how I made the Brush tips, check out my Tutorial here

OK HERE WE GO.

( REMEMBER TO SAVE REGULARLY)

STEP (1)

Download the Radiant Star Brush Tips here

STEP (2)

(Make sure your PSP program is NOT open)

Double click on the downloaded Radiant Star Brush Tips zip folder, extract the files and then
copy or move all the files to your Brushes Folder usually found in My Documents/My PSP Files

STEP (3)

Open up your PSP program, and create a new Document 500 x 500 pixels, with
a transparent background, right click on its layer and name it Background

Go to the Overhead Bar, then go to File and in its drop-down menu, click Save, when
its pop-up box appears name your file, I have named it "Radiant Star" then click Save

STEP (4)

Go to the Toolbar and select the Paint Brush, then go to the overhead Brush Tips
drop-down list and check to see the 6 Radiant Star brush tips are showing like this

STEP (5)

Go to the Toolbar and select the Flood Fill Tool, then go to the Material Palette
and select a color or pattern of your choice, click your Document to fill it

You can if you wish use my background, it can be downloaded here

STEP (6)

Go to your Layer Palette and create 6 Rasher layers

STEP (7)

Go to the Overhead Bar, then go to View and in its drop-down menu, tick Grid and Snap to Grid

Note:- Your animation will result in being jumpy, if the Snap to Grid is not on

Again go to View and in its drop-down menu, click on Change Grid, Guide & Snap Properties, when
the pop-up box appears change the current image settings to these, (the Grid color is optional)

The Grid Lines on your Document should now look like this

STEP (8)

Arrange your Layer palette like this

STEP (9)

Go to the Toolbar and select the Paint Brush, then go to the overhead
Brush Tip drop down list, and select the 1 Radiant, Brush Tip and click ok

Go to the overhead bar and make these settings for your Brush Tip

Go to your Material Palette and select a color for your Brush Tip, I used white

Go to your Document, and where the Grid lines cross, click your little Paint Brush
icon (once only), the Radiant Brush Tip, will accurately snap into position

NOTE:- you do not need to click the exact centre of the grid
lines, as the influence of the "Snap To Grid" will automatically
align your Radiant Brush Tip 100% to the Grid Line Centre

Your Document should now look like this

Go to the overhead bar and change the rotation to 15 (setting highlighted in pink

With Rasher 1, Layer still selected go to your Document, and where
the Grid lines cross, click your little Paint Brush icon (once only),
the Radiant Brush Tip, will again accurately snap into position

Your Document should now look like this

Following the above procedure apply the other 5 Radiant, Brush Tips, in this order:-

Select 2 Radiant, Brush Tip, size 480, apply it to Rasher 2, Layer, at Rotation 0 and 15

Select 3 Radiant, Brush Tip, size 480, apply it to Rasher 3, Layer, at Rotation 0 and 15

Select 4 Radiant, Brush Tip, size 480, apply it to Rasher 4, Layer, at Rotation 0 and 15

Select 5 Radiant, Brush Tip, size 480, apply it to Rasher 5, Layer, at Rotation 0 and 15

Select 6 Radiant, Brush Tip, size 480, apply it to Rasher 6, Layer, at Rotation 0 and 15

STEP (10)

Go to your Layer Palette, and create a new Layer over
Rasher 6, layer it will automatically be named Rasher 7,

Go to the Toolbar and select the Paint Brush Tool,
then go to its overhead bar and make these settings

Note:- its the Round Brush selected

Go to your Material Palette and set the Foreground color to Black (shift+ctrl+f6)

STEP (11)

With Rasher 7, Layer selected, and the Grid Lines still on, go to your
Document, and where the Grid lines cross, click your little Paint Brush
icon (once only), the Round Brush Tip, will accurately snap into position

Go to the Toolbar and select the Magic Wand, then on its overhead bar make these settings

Note:- the Feather is set to 20

Go to your Document and click your Magic wand on the Round Black
shape, this will make a Selection (Marching Ants) around it

Go to your Layer Palette and arrange it Like this

Tap down your Delete Key (once only), it turn carry out this Delete step to:-

Rasher 5, Layer
Rasher 4, Layer
Rasher 3, Layer
Rasher 2, Layer
Rasher 1, Layer

Go to your Layer Palette and select Rasher 7, Layer
click the above red X to delete it from your Palette

On the overhead bar go to View and in its drop-down menu, click
Grid, the Grid lines are no longer showing on your document

With your Layer Palette arranged like this

Your Document should look similar to this

That's it we are done, all you need to do now is add a tube etc,and
take it into Animation Shop, set the display times for all frames to 1

If you need some help Animating your Layers, check out my Tutorials:-

Animating your PSP work with Jasc Animation Shop here

Animating your PSP work with Ulead GIF Animator here