Tena's Breathing Bear tutorial for Photo Impact

Created Jan 28th, 2006

I have been seeing several  images of different things breathing and just
had to play around to see if I could figure out how to do this in PI.

Please do not copy this tutorial .
You are welcome to use it in graphic groups to learn as long as credit is given .
I would love to see any creations that you come up with.

Tena K. Williams







 

 Open up your bear in a 300x 300 blank image.
You will need to use your transform tool to size him down a bit to fit.

Click on your bear and merge him.

Save him now..as a UFO

Remember to save often.
 

 
 With your lasso tool, go around the bears tummy in the area that you feel would be moving when he is breathing..
click on finish when you are done.

Now you will see lines around the area you selected.
 

Right click and duplicate this selection..twice.
We want two tummies to work with.
 Now select your magic wand and lets get that bear as an object.
Place your magic wand outside of the bear and click, now your bear is selected.
.Right click and select invert..
Right click again and select convert to object.

Open your layer manager and you should see this.Your new bear image and two tummies.

With your layer manager open select your first tummy and you'll see the lines dancing on your bear
Go up to effects.
Select Distort/Punch
Take the default  in the middle
and select options.
Where it says power..change that to 15 and click ok.

Now back to your layer manager..select your second tummy you created.
Again go to effect/distort/punch
and this time change the power to 10.

Be sure to save your bear again..as a UFO

Now lets open this bear up in GIF animator.
Go up to switch and select the Gif Animator
When it opens choose open an existing image file..find your bear and open it up.

When it opens you are going to see on the right side.... 4 objects...

 
Find the bear image on the right that has the white on it....click on it and right click..select delete object. 
Now you are left with all moveable objects.
At the bottom where you see your bear..right click on him..select frame properties and change it to 40.

Now right click on your bear and duplicate it twice so you now have three bears.

You will now have 3 frames.

Click on the first frame to make it active and up on the right side where you see your objects..where you see the eyes....click on the top two eyes so the tummies disappear.

Now click on your second frame.
On the right side again this time remove the eye on the first tummy.
 

Then click on your third frame and where your objects are shown..remove the eye from the second tummy.

 
Now let's take a look at our little bear.
Click on preview  and your should see your little guy breathing deep..lol
 

So let's save him.
Go up to file/optimization wizard and save the little guy.

Hope you had fun trying it out .

Now you can add your name to him or even make him wink too.. Use your imagination.
 
 
 

 


 

the same effect can be applied to create a beating heart..as seen below...