Come Fly with Me

You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Tube of choice - I'm using the art of Cal Slayton
Font of choice
Preset - Here

Start by putting the preset in your preset folder.  Open a canvas of 600 x 600 with a white background.  We will crop this later.

Select your preset tool, using a colour from your tube in the background, foreground set to null, find the globe preset.  Hold down the shift key (this keeps the shape), and drag out your globe.  Convert to raster layer and add a drop shadow of H and V = 0, Opacity = 35 and blur = 8.
 

Take your Eclipse preset tool.  Background null, foreground on black, line width 3, drag out your circle.  It needs to be wider than the globe.  Free rotate it 26 degrees to the right.  Convert to raster layer.  This shape is going to go around your globe.  Add the same drop shadow.  Then take your lasso tool, all set to 0, and select a potion of the shape you just did, to move below the globe.  Promote to layer, then delete this section on the original layer, and move the selection below the globe.  You should now have something like this:

Select none.

 

Add your tube, giving it the same drop shadow, and add your copyright and text.  I added the phrase 'Come Fly With Me', and my name.

With the top layer active, take your circle preset tool, foreground null, and background a bright colour from you tube.  I'm using red.  Give it the following inner bevel:

Crop your image now, but leave enough space at either side of the black line for you red circle.  Now we are going to make the red dot circle the globe.  Position it firstly on the bottom of the black line next to the globe like so:

Copy merged and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.  Back in PSP move the dot along the line.  Copy merged, and paste in Animation after current frame.  Repeat this until the red dot had gone all round the globe.  When you get to the other side you will need to move the dot layer below the globe layer so it looks like it is rotating behind the globe.  I ended up with 18 frames.  Click animate and save as a gif.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 10th August 2007 by Faerie Queen.