P.T.U. Cheesehouse Party

This tutorial is ©Delectable PSP Addictions . It may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without my written permission.

I used PSP9  and AS for this tutorial but I think it can be done with any version of PSP.

AAA-Frames filter.
Eyecandy 5 filter
Font used: 2Peas Fragile (PTU)

For this tut you need a funny scrapkit  or some scraps of cheese and a mouse of your choice and a cat tube of your choice.

I used a PTU kit Cheesehouse  by Shayarka Designs at http://shayarka.blogspot.com/, but unfortunately she stopped designing and you can't buy her kits anymore..:(

I used a tube by Chuchilko which can be purchased at picsfordesign.com

Open a transparant image 600 x 340 and selections, select all.

If you have the scrapkit then you can follow my steps, if you don't have it you have to use a background of your own and also elements of your own choice. (Be copyright aware!)

Here are the steps when you have this kit:

Open paper 13, resize by 20% and copy and paste it into the selection of your new transparant image. Deselect.

Open elements 4, 6, 9, 16, 33 and 34, resize them to your liking and place them on your work (see my tag for refference).

Open your kitty tube and when you have the same one I used open also the little mouse. Resize them and place them to your liking on the background layer (again see my tag for refference).

Give all elements and the kitty tube a dropshadow, using Eyecandy 5 Impact, perspective shadow with the settings below:

 

Copy merged all layers and paste it as a new layer on top of all the others.

Adjust blur, motion blur with the settings below:

AAAFrames, Foto frame with the settings below:

select all, selections modify, retract by 14, hit the delete button. Selections, select none.
Put all the correct copyright information clearly visible on your tag.

Now for the Animation:

duplicate the mouse layer. Close the original and on the duplicate, with your freehand lassotool set to point to point, lasso the right leg, promote it to a new layer and on the duplicate mouse layer hit the delete button once. You now have a 3-legged
mouse with the other leg on a seperate layer:)
Move the leg layer below the 3-legged mouse layer and with your deformation tool, slightly rotate the right leg a bit inwards and down.
Adjust, Sharpen.
now merge the 3 legged mouse layer and this leglayer down. Rename this layer leg down. Close this layer for now.

You now have 2 mouselayers.
Go back to the original mouselayer and duplicate it once more and close the original one.
With your warptool settings as below:

move the nose a tiny bit up, rename this layer nose up. Close it for now.
You now have 3 mouse layers.

Open the leg down layer.
With your mover tool carefully click on the mouse to active it and then on the arrow down button on your keyboard tap twice. Close this layer and open the original one.

And we're done with the mouse:)

Now for the blinking eyes on the kitty:

Go to your kitty layer and add a new layer and name it eyes half closed.

On this layer with your freehand lasso tool set to point to point, lasso half of the eyes of the kitty and floodfill the new layer on top of the kittylayer with a color from the furr. I used e3eaec.Deselect.

Close this layer and add a new layer. With your free hand lasso tool , again point to point now lasso the entire eyes and floodfill this new layer too with the same color and rename it eyes closed. Deselect.

By now I merge together the frame with the credits. And also all the elements that I used, so I have lesser layers. See my screenshot:

Now add your name. I used 2Peas Fragile (it's a PTU font) or use a font of your choice, stroke on 2 with color fbec59 and the fill on black.

Give it a dropshadow to your liking.I used these settings: 3, 3, 100, 5

Now we are going to put it together in AS to make the animation work...let's go!:)
You still have the 2 top mouse layers and the closed eye layers of the kitty closed, I hope. If not do so ( see screenhot 5 above)

Read and follow all the steps below carefully to get a good animation:

Copy merge and paste in AS as a new frame.
Close the mouse layer and open the nose up in PSP. Copy merged and past after the first frame in AS.
Select both frames, copy and paste them after frame 2. and again paste them after frame 4. You now have 6 frames in AS

with a sniffing mouse:)

Back in PSP, close the nose up layer and open the leg down layer of the mouse and close the kitty layer and open the eyes half closed layer. Copy merged and paste after frame 6 in AS.

Back to PSP, close the eyes half closed layer of the kitty and open the eyes closed layer. Close the leg down layer of the mouse and open de first mouse layer again. Copy merged and paste in AS after frame 7.

In PSP close the mouse layer and open the leg down layer again and close the eyes closed layer from the kitty and open the kitty layer again.
Copy merged and paste in AS after frame 8.

Back in PSP close the leg down layer of the mouse and open the original mouse layer again. Close the kitty layer and open the eyes half closed layer. Copy merged and past in AS after frame 9.

Back in PSP close the eyes half closed layer on the kitty and open the eyes closed layer.
Copy merged and paster in AS after frame 10.

You have 11 frames in total.

Almost done.
The only thing left to do is put the speed to the different frames to make the animation a bit smoother:)

Hold down your shift button on your keyboard and click first and frame 1 and then on frame 6 to highlight them all 6. Put the

speed of these frames to 18. Now click on frame 7 while holding the shift button again and clcik on your last frame to higlight

these last 5 frames and put the speed of these to 22 and we're done!

I hope you enjoyed this tut and I love to see your results!

hugs,
Lia