This tutorial was translated with PSPX, PSPX2, PSPX3, but it can also be made using other versions of PSP.
Since version PSP X4, Image>Mirror was replaced with Image>Flip Horizontal,
and Image>Flip with Image>Flip Vertical, there are some variables.
In versions X5 and X6, the functions have been improved by making available the Objects menu.
In the latest version X7 command Image>Mirror and Image>Flip returned, but with new differences.
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Italian translation here
French translation here
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For the first version of this tutorial I used the scrapkit by Gerda Blue Christmas Scrap 2013 (19, Oktober 2013)



For this tutorial, you will need:
Tubes at your choice.



For the tube of my second version thanks Luz Cristina.
(you find here the links to the material authors' sites)



consult, if necessary, my filter section here
Xero - Improver here


Animation Shop here




Open the golden pattern in PSP and minimize it with the rest of the material.

1. Set your foreground color to Pattern, open the menu and under the Open Images Category,
select the pattern 1or-Arguld24 with these settings.



Choose for your background color a medium color of your tube.



Open Auswahl-Datei
Window>Duplicate or, on the keyboard, shift+D to make a copy.



Close the original.
The copy, that will be the basis of your work, is not empty,
but contains the selections saved to alpha channel.

Flood Fill the transparent image with your background color.

Open your landscape and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Image>Resize, if necessary, resize all layers not checked.
Place the image so that it fills the entire area of the canvas.



2. Layers>Merge>Merge visible.

Layers>Duplicate, and close this layer.
Activate the layer below of the original.

Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load the selection Auswahl#00.



Layers>New Raster Layer.
Flood Fill the selection with your background color.
to fill your selections with a single click, set the match mode of your Flood Fill Tool to None.



If you want to alternate the lines with a lighter color and/or fill each box individually,
set the match mode to RGB value

Selections>Select None.

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3. Open one of the tubes you intend to use for the calendar boxes,
and go to Edit>Copy
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Image>Resize, if necessary, resize all layers not checked.
Place rightly the tube in one of the boxes.

if you have problems seeing the box, you can temporarily reduce the opacity of the background layer.

Effects>Plugins>Xero - Improver, click on Landscape and ok.



Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, with a darker color of your background color.



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Repeat 23 times from **** to **** with the other tubes needed to fill all the boxes.

4. When you have placed the 24 small images in the boxes:
Layers>Merge>Merge visible.

Open and activate the top layer.
Rename this layer "background 2".

5. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
The selection Auswahl #1 is immediately available. You just have to click Load.



Selections>Promote Selection to layer.
Selections>Select None.

Activate your Text Tool and choose a font.
Close your foreground color and set your background color to the golden pattern.



Write the number 1 in the small rectangle.
Layers>Convert in Raster Layer.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Place correctly the number.
Layers>Merge>Merge Down.
Rename this layer "1".

6. Activate again the layer "background 2".

Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load the selection Auswahl #2



Selections>Promote Selection to Layer.
Selections>Select None.

Write the number 2.
Layers>Convert in Raster Layer.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, same settings.



Place correctly the number.
Layers>Merge>Merge Down.
Rename this layer "2".

7. Repeat the step 6 again 22 times, loading the next selection.



Don't forget every time to activate the layer "background 2".

8. When you are done, you can delete the layer "background 2".

You should have this



9. Activate the top layer.
Layers>New Raster Layer.
Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load the selection Auswahl#25.



Flood Fill the selection with your golden pattern.

Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel.



Selections>Select None.

10. Activate the bottom layer.

Layers>New Raster Layer.
Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load again the selection Auswahl#00.



Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Selections>Select None.

Layers>Merge>Merge Down.

11. Activate again your top layer.

Open your tube and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Image>Resize, if necessary, resize all layers not checked.
Effects>Plugins>Xero - Improver, same settings.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Move the tube to the right side, against the border.

12. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Selections>Select All.
Flood Fill the layer with your golden pattern.

Selections>Modify>Contract - 5 pixels.



Effects>3D Effects>Cutout.



Selections>Invert.

Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel.



Selections>Select None.

13. Sign your work on a new layer.

This should be your level palette.
I left the numbered levels from top to bottom, for convenience,
but without problems for the result of the animation




14.Animation

Stay always positioned on the background layer.

Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged.
Open Animation Shop and go to Edit>Paste>Paste as new image.

Go back to PSP.
Close the layer "1".
Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged.
Go back to Animation Shop and go to Edit>Paste>Paste after the current frame.

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Go back to PSP.
Close the layer "2".
Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged.
Go back to Animation Shop and go to Edit>Paste>Paste after the current frame.***

And so on, repeat the step until you have closed the layer "24".

And you will have an animation consisting of 25 frames.

Edit>Select All.
Animation>Frame Properties and set to 50.



Click on the frames 1 and 25.
Animation>Frame Properties, and set to 200.

Check your result clicking on View and save as gif.

For the tubes of this version thanks Luz Cristina and Tine






Your versions here




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4 October 2022