ROTATING GOLF BALLS

Hooteye July 2011

This Tutorial will show you how to achieve the Rotating Golf Balls effect shown in the
below tag, as it is only a 4 Frame Animation, it should prove quick and easy to do

This Tutorial was wrote for PSP X but I have also tested it in PSP 9 and PSP 8

Any resemblance to any other tut on the web is purely coincidental

The animated effects shown in this Tutorial are achieved by using Bump Maps, for those who
are interested in seeing how to make a set of animated Bump Maps check out my Tutorial here

OK HERE WE GO.

( REMEMBER TO SAVE REGULARLY)

STEP (1)

Download the Golf Ball Bump Maps here

STEP (2)

Double click on the downloaded Golf Ball Bump Maps zip folder, extract the files and then copy
or move all the files to your Bump Maps Folder, usually found in My Documents/My PSP Files

STEP (3)

Right click on the below Rolled Gold jpg image, when its pop-up
menu appears click on Save Picture As, Save it to your Environment
Maps Folder, again usually found in My Documents/My PSP Files

STEP (4)

Open up your PSP program, and go to the Overhead Bar, then go to File, and in its
drop-down menu, Click New, when its pop-up box appears, create a 400x400 pixel Document
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 "Rotating Golf Balls" then Click Save

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

Go to your Layer Palette and create 4 Rasher layers and arrange it like this

STEP (6)

Go to the Overhead Bar, and go to Effects, and in its
drop-down menu, Click, Artistic Effects/Balls and Bubbles

When its pop-up box appears you will note that it has 4 tabs, Shape-Surface-Maps-Illumination

Select the Shape Tab, and make these settings

Select the Surface Tab, and make these settings

Select the Maps Tab, and make these settings

Still on the Maps Tab click on the Bump Map drop-down list and select 1 GBM

Select the Illumination Tab, and make these settings, then click OK

Your Document and Layer Palette should now look similar to this

STEP (7)

Go to your Layer Palette and select Rasher 2 Layer

Go to the Overhead Bar, and again go to Effects, and in its drop-down menu, Click,
Artistic Effects/Balls and Bubbles, this action will make the Balls and Bubbles Setting
Box re-appear, you will note that all settings made in (Step 5) have remained the same

In the Balls and Bubbles Settings Box select the Maps Tab, click
on the Bump Map drop-down list, and select 2 GBM, then click OK

We now need to apply this procedure to Rasher 3 Layer and Rasher 4 Layer, which is

Go to your Layer Palette and select Rasher 3 Layer, then go back to the Balls and Bubbles Setting
Box, and select the Maps Tab, then on the Bump Map drop-down list, select 3 GBM, then click OK

Go to your Layer Palette and select Rasher 4 Layer, then go back to the Balls and Bubbles Setting
Box, and select the Maps Tab, then on the Bump Map drop-down list, select 4 GBM, then click OK

STEP (8)

Go to your Layer Palette and arrange it like this

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)

Your Document should now look similar to this

Go to the Toolbar and select the Eraser Tool

Go to the above settings bar for the Eraser tool, and make these settings

With the Grid Lines and Snap to Grid still on, go to your Document, and
where the Grid lines cross, click your little Eraser icon (once only) this
action will smoothly remove the centre of the Golf Balls on Rasher Layer 1

NOTE:- you do not need to click the exact centre of the grid lines, as the
influence of the "Snap To Grid" will proportionally erase from the exact centre

Your Document should now look similar to this

Go to your Layer Palette and select Rasher 2 layer, click its Eye icon to
make it visible, go to your Document, again where the Grid lines cross, click
your little Eraser icon to smoothly remove the centre of the Golf Balls

Carry out this Delete step to Rasher 3, and Rasher 4, Layers

That's it, we are done, all you need to do now is to 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 (Method 1) here

Animating your PSP work with Jasc Animation Shop (Method 2) here

Animating your PSP work with Ulead GIF Animator (Free Trial) here