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Click Image=> canvas size.
- width =750
- height = 900
- anchor = center bottom
 3.
Click Image=> canvas size.
- width =750
- height = 500
- anchor = center top
 4.
Duplicate the back ground to make a layer called "top dunes". Select the
bottom two dunes using the magnetic lasso tool. Click the Add layer
mask button on the bottom of the layers palette.
5. Right Click on the background layer and select duplicate. Call this
layer Dragon Scales.
6. Use the magnetic lasso tool to select the next dune back. Click add
layer mask button on the bottom of the layers palette.
Click back on the image on the dragon scales layer instead of the mask.
7. Click Filter=> texture=> Texturizer. Click on Texture type: load
texture. Search your hard drive for your adobe folder, photoshop
7+>presets=> textures. Select the snakeskin.psd file inside this folder. Set
the following settings to your texturizer.
- scaling = 50%
- Relief = 10
- Light direction = top right
Click back on the background layer. Turn the eye off on the top dunes and
the dragon scales layers 8. Open your image of the sand dragon head. Click
Image=> Mode=> RGB.
Select your magic wand tool and set the options to
- tolerence = 85
- contiguous checked
- antialias unchecked
Use the wand to select the black surrounding the dragon head. Click
Select=> inverse.
 9.
Use your move tool to drag this image onto your dunes canvas. Position the
dragon so the top of the horns are just at the top of the dune which was the
dragon scale dune.
 10.
Click image=> adjust=> Hue/Saturation. Adjust the hues to match the
shades of the dunes. I used the following:
- hue = -65
- saturation = -29
- lightness = -20
11. Turn on the eye for the dragon scales layer and the topdunes.
Creating the animation
12. SWITCH TO IMAGE READY. 13. Open the Animation panel. Set the
time of frame 1 at 0.5 seconds. Click the duplicate current frame icon
on the bottom of the animation panel.
14. Select the move tool. Make sure the Bounding box option is NOT
selected. Move the sanddragon head on frame 2 up till it is near the top of
the image.
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Click back on frame 1. Click the carrot on the right side of the animation
panel banner and select TWEEN. Set the following:
- tween with = next frame
- frames to add= 4
- layers = all layers
16. Set the new frames, 2-5, to a time of 0.1 seconds.
 17. Click on frame 2. Hold your shift key down and click on frame 5.
This will highlight frames 2-5.
- Click the right hand carrot in the upper right and select copy
frames.
- Click on frame 6.
- Click the right hand carrot and select paste frames. Select Paste After Selection.
- Click on frame 7. Hold your shift key down and click on frame
10 to select frames 7-10.
- Click the carrot in the upper right corner of the animation
palette. Select reverse frames.
17. Click on frame one. Click image=>image size. set the width to 300 by
200 high and constrain proportions.
 18.
Use your slice tool to make a slice that will contain all of your
animated dragon. At least two other slices will result as default.
Set the animated slice to the following:
- gif
- lossy =0
- adaptive colors 128
- no dither.
 19.
Use the slice tool to click on the other two slices, one at a time and set
the image to JPG 45%
20 Click Save=>optimized as. Set to HTML and graphics.
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