Selfie

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
EyeCandy/Gradient Glow
Tube of you choice
Font of your choice
Polaroid Tube - go here to learn how to make your own

Lets start.  Open a new canvas, 500 x 500, flood filled white.  Open your Polaroid tube, duplicate it by pressing Shift and D.  Close the original.  Using your magic wand click in the centre.  Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.  I have the original picture from my tube, so I'm using this in the Polaroid.  Select none, copy merged, and paste onto your new canvas.
 

Duplicate, free rotate  the duplicate 15 right, and the bottom original 10 left.  Position them to your liking.  Add a drop shadow to each Polaroid, V= -2, H= 2, Opacity= 40, and Blur= 5, colour black.

Activate your top layer, and merge down.  You should have your Polaroid layer and white background.
 

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.  Duplicate, and on the top tube add Gradient Glow, colour white, glow with set at 8.  Then go into Ajust/Brightness and Contrast, with brightness set at 30 and contrast set at 0, click okay.

Add the Gradient Glow again.  On your original bottom tube, add the same drop shadow you added to the Polaroids.
 

Now add your copyright information, and your text.  I'm using font 'Spahrty Girl', which you can find here.  Size, colour and position as required.  I'm putting mine above my tube to cover the chopped off section of her head.  Convert to raster, and add the same Gradient Glow once.  You may crop your canvas at this point, and save as a blank tag.
 

Now lets animate.
 

Hide the tube with the gradient glow, and with the top layer activated, copy merged, and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.  Hide the original tube, and unhide the gradient glow one.  Copy merged, and paste after current frame.  Duplicate the none flash frame, and drag to the end frame.  You should now have in this order, none flash, flash, and none flash frames.  In the first and third frame change the frame properties to 75.  View animation and save as a gif file. 

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 9th July 2006 by Faerie Queen.