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Water
Effect Tutorial
This tutorial is
for Animation Shop 3. Please note that the end result icons arent small enough
to use on Livejournal, because I've used higher quality settings to show how
they should look idealy.
For this tutorial,
I'm going to use a small, 100x100, icon sized image:
Load the image
into Animation Shop:
Select Effects>Insert
Image Effect... from the top menu.
Another window
will open. Select 'Underwater' from the drop down menu at the bottom of the
window.
You need to edit
the effect length, and frames per second. I've chosen 5fps, with 1.2 secs for
the length. You can change this. The way I've done it means I'll have to delete
a couple of frames once I've finished doing the effect in order to use it as
a Livejournal icon.
Click on 'Customize...'
Mimic these settings
for now. The sunlight 'Effects' and 'Liquid properties' are the sections you
dont need to edit much once you've got the settings similar to mine. The 'Waves'
however, define the entire thing. With the settings as shown here, the image
will turn out like this:
Here are some examples
of different settings you could use, and the effects they produce:
You can also increase
the amount of waves, or offset the X/Y values, if you want to. It's entirely
up to you. This is one of those effects that the more you play with it, the
more interesting the effects you discover. Have fun with it!
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