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Made in PSPX and Animation shop
You need my selections files - annesskaflakes1-9 and annesskaxmastree, annesskasnow and annesskatreeborder.pspimage. Download files xmastree.zip
Filters needed - Greg's Factory Output Vol II - Pool Shadow
Mura Meister - Clouds
VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes
Save the selections files to your Selections folder, open the annesskatreeborder.pspimage in PSP
Open a new transparent image 500x500
In the Materials Palette
Set your foreground to #ffffff
Background to #c0c0c0
Effects, Plug Ins, Mura Meister - Clouds
Click on reset colours, then reset
Settings below
Effects, Plug Ins, Greg's Factory Output Vol II, Pool Shadow - use default settings but change Intensity and Lightness to 68
Image, Flip
Adjust Blur, Gaussian Blur 30,
Layer, New Raster Layer
Selection, Load selection from disk, annesskaxmastree
Floodfill selection with #18450f
Floodfill again BUT change the opacity to 50, see below
After you've floodfilled, change the setting back to 100 opacity
Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen More
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Resize 60
Move to left, see below
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Layers, Duplicate, Move over to the left slightly, See Below
Layers, Duplicate
Image Mirror
In the layers palette -Move the biggest tree to the top.
Close the bottom layer and Merge Visible
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow
1, 1, Opacity 50, Blur 1, colour white
Open the bottom layer, Merge Visible
Layers, New raster layer
Selections, Load selection from disk - annesskasnow
Floodfill selection with white
Selections, Select None
Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur, 14
Adjust, Add Noise, 21, Gaussian
Layers, Merge Visible
Follow the next parts closely as it may get confusing -
Layers, New raster layer
Effects, VDL Adrenaline, Snowflakes
Settings below
Layer, New raster layer
Selections, Load selection from disk annesskaflakes1
Floodfill selection with white
Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance more
Repeat Enhance more two more times
Select None
Close bottom layer
Layers Merge Visible
Rename layer snow 1
Close snow 1
Layers, New raster layer
Effects, Plug ins, VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes, same settings as before but change random seed to 100
Layer, new raster layer
Selections, load selection from disk, annesskaflakes2
Floodfill with white, Effects, Edge effects, Enhance more
Repeat Enhance more 2 more times
Layers Merge visible
Rename layer, snow 2
Close snow 2
Continue as below until you complete layer snow 9
1 add a new layer,
2 Effects,snowflakes, changing the random seed by 100 each time
3 Add a new layer
4 Load selection from disk annesskaflakes 3 and so on til 9
5 Floodfill selection with white
6 Enhance edges, repeat 2 more times
7 Select none
8 Merge visible
9 Rename layers snow 3 - 9
10 Close snow layer
You should then have your bottom layer, and 9 snow layers
Now, repeat steps 1-8 as above, you will use the selection annesskaflakes9 again
Rename layer, snow 10
Close snow 10
Repeat steps 1-8 (use selection annesskaflakes9 again)
Rename layer snow11
Close snow 11
So now you have the bottom layer and snow layers 1-11
Open the bottom layer
Image, Resize, 85% bicubic ALL layers checked
Image, Canvas Size
Click in the middle diamond
Change height and width to 545
Click on annesskatreeborder.pspimage
Edit, copy
On your working image, Edit, paste as a new layer
Makes sure it's now the top layer, rename border
Open snow 1
You should have bottom layer, snow 1 and border open
Edit, copy merged
Open animation shop
Edit paste as a new animation
in PSP close snow 1 and open snow 2
Edit, copy merged
In animation shop, edit, paste after current frame
In PSP, close snow 2 and open snow 3
Edit, copy merged
In animation shop, edit, paste after current frame
In PSP Continue to close a snow layer, open next snow layer
Edit copy merged
In animation shop, edit, paste after current frame
Until you have done snow 11
Now in animation shop you should have 11 frames.
Edit, select all
Click on Animation, Frame properties and change speed to 35
Now, View, Animation and if all went well it should look okay :-)
Save as a gif.
Tutorial written by Annesska - 30 November 2007
Tested by Silvia - thanks!
ŠAnne aka Annesska
February 2008
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