Flickering Candles Tut

This tutorial was written in PSP 10 but should be almost the same in other PSP versions

You will need my tube here or one of your own that has candles on it with a flame

A gradient to match your tube

Another gradient to make a contrasting frame.

In your material palette-foreground box-go to gradient and add a gradient to match your tube.

Working on your tube-add a new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient.

Layers- arrange-send to bottom

Now change your gradient to another one that matches and style 4-angle 121 repeats 24.

Image-add border-size 20-colour white.

Click on this with your magic wand and then flood fill with the gradient-add an inner bevel of your choice -I used the groove preset.

Select none

Add a new layer for any text. Make sure that any text is away from the candles flame

Add a new layer

Add any other decoration at this stage. I used simple bows for the top two corners but bells or stars would look nice

Layers -merge visible and then resize as you wish

When you are happy duplicate the tag

Now with your selection tool-setting-rectangle-make a selection around one of the flames on one of the tags

Effects-distortion effects-pinch-strength 100 -select none.

On the other tag do the same thing with the other flame.

Open animation shop and copy and paste one of the tags as a new animation

Then copy the other tag and paste after the current frame

Test the animation. The speed may need to be adjusted. Select a frame- right click on the frame-go to frame properties and alter the number until you are happy. I have mine set at 20. You can have a different frame time on the other frame if you.

That's it done save as a gif.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial

rewritten by chrissie 2005