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Made in PSPX and Animation Shop

Filters Needed -

Mura Meister - Cloud

VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes

Supplies - annesska-snowflakes.pspimage, silvertree.pspimage, snowflakesframe.pspimage and jet-woman2-december-2007.pspimage(Used with permission) Please do not share or change the file names.

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Open the snowflakes.pspimage, leave the layers closed for now

Layers, New raster Layer

Layers, Arrange, Send to bottom

Effects, Plug ins, Mura Meister, Cloud, settings below



Layer, New raster layer

Effects Plug ins, VDL Adrenaline, Snowflakes, settings below



Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance more,

Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, h 2, v 2, Opacity 100, Blur 12, Colour #808080

Click on the silvertree.pspimage, Edit, Copy

On your working image, Edit, Paste as a new layer

Image, Resize 85% bicubic, All layers unchecked

Adjust, Hue & Saturation, Colorize, 201, 17

Click on jet-woman2-december2007.pspimage, Edit, Copy

On your working image, Edit, Paste as a new layer

Image, Resize 85% bicubic, all layers unchecked, move down and to the right



Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow h 2, v 2, Opacity 40, Blur 12, Colour #808080

Click on the snowflakesframe.pspimage

Edit, Copy

On your working image, Edit, Paste as a new layer

Layers, Arrange, Bring to top

Close the layer

Click on your woman layer

Layers, Merge visible

Image, Resize 85% bicubic, All layers Checked

Open the top layer(frame)

Open snowflakes1

Edit, copy merged

Open animation shop

In Animation Shop - Edit, Paste as a new animation

In PSP close snowflakes 1 and open snowflakes2

In Animation shop, Edit, Paste after current frame

In PSP close snowflakes2 and open snowflakes 3

In Animation Shop, Edit, paste after current frame

In PSP continue to close a snowflake layer and open the next snowflake layer then copy merged


and paste after current frame in Animation Shop until you have done snowflake9

You should now have 9 frames in Animation Shop

In Animation Shop, Edit, select all

Animation, Frame Properties, Change the speed to between 30-40, your choice, I used 40

View animation and if it looks okay, save as a gif

Tutorial written by Annesska, 9 December, 2007

Thanks to Silvia for testing.


  

  

Anne aka Annesska

February 2008