Double Flowing Images
by kim@pixelbit.com

What you make is yours but please don't steal my work.

Needed tools
A frame and a scenery image

Flaming Pear Flood
Eye Candy 4000

Open your scenery image and your frame.
Make a duplicate of each and close the originals to preserve them.
Make your frame active. Copy
Make your scenery active. Paste as a new layer. (CTRL + L)
With your mover tool, move the frame around do the correct part of the scenery is inside the frame.

Use your magic wand tool. Tolerance set to 0.
Click on the inside transparent area of your frame.
Selections > Modify > expand > 1.
Selections > Invert.
Make your scenery layer active, press delete.
Crop your image to the size of the frame.
 

Increase the canvas size to 500 X 500 with the top position arrow checked.

Make your scenery layer active.
Apply Flaming pear Flood.
Select the "Ordinary waves" preset.
Raise the waviness setting to 61.
Adjust your horizon to that the flood effect starts in the center if the image.

In your layer palette, make two duplicates of your top layer for a total of three.
make your top layer active.
Use your selection tool set to rectangle.
Select the entire flood area of your image.

Apply Eye candy 4000 > Jiggle using the Slightly bent preset.
Subtle bubbles looks good too, so you decide which one works best for you.

In your layer palette, make the middle scenery layer active.
Apply the same jiggle effect but click the Random Seed button once.

Repeat for the last scenery layer.
Deselect and verify that your frame is still the bottom layer.

SHIFT + D to make a duplicate of your image.
Select one of your images.
Crop to the size of the frame.
Save this image as large.psp. Close.

Make your remaining image active.
Resize your image 50 percent of original.
go through all 4 layers and click Adjust > Sharpen > Sharpen.
Place the crop to the size of the frame.
Grab the lower crop line and pull it down to include about 1/4 inch if the water under the frame.

Save AS small.psp.

Open Animation shop.
File > Preferences > General Program Preferences.
Make sure "Keep layers as separate frames" is checked and click ok.
Open your large.psp image.

Your image will look something like this

Duplicate your frame twice for a total of three frames.

click on the first frame to make it active.
Press and HOLD your CTRL key and click on the other two frames so only the frames are select and the scenery layers are not selected.
CTRL + X to cut.
Select all. CTRL + E to paste the frames into selected.

File > Preferences > General program preferences > Layered files.

Click "Each frame shows first and current" and click ok.

Open your small.psp image.

In this image, you will have four frames.

The first frame is the frames only. The remaining three frames have BOTH frames and scenery.
But the frame will be UNDER the scenery.
Click the first frame and press delete.
Select all. Click Animation > Reverse Frames. Copy.

Make your large image active.
Select all. CTRL + E to paste the small image into selected.
Place the small image just inside the larger frame.
Almost done.
Select all again.
Press ALT + ENTER to open the frame properties.
Set the speed to 25.
That's it.
You're done.
Nothing left to do but save.