Ice Women

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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this lesson you need Animaton Shop (AS).

and the following plugins:

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Render and Buttons & Frames

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Kang 2 - the Persian Widow

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes.

The tubes are by Bibiche, MMDesignz and Nurso 53.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #dde0e8 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #6a7e99 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 750 x 635 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Render - Clouds (fore-/background color) - default settings.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'NS_15_0111_09'.

Back to your working image - paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.

Step 3

Open tube 'aaabibicheyangqi003'.

Image - Resize - Height 634 pixels - Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Image - Resize - Width 600 pixels.

Step 4

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - background color.

Step 5

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - with these settings:

Step 6

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - foreground color.

Step 7

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Set your foreground to gradient Sunburst - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

DON'T DESELECT!

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Kang 2 - the Persian Widow - default settings - see image below:

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Overlay.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 35.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Buttons & Frames - 3D Glass Frame 1: 71 - 128.

Step 9

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - background color.

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - same settings as before.

Step 10

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 30 pixels - foreground color.

Step 11

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Sparkle - with these settings:

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 4 - Opacity 40 - Blur 4 - black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -4 (minus 4).

Selections - Select none.

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

Open tube 'MMDesignz_CHRM398_141109'.

Image - Resize - Height 500 pixels - Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.

Place it on the left side - see main image.

Step 14

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - with these settings:

Make a selection inside the Christmasball - see image below:

Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 15

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.

Step 16

Back to PSP - Edit - Undo - 2x.

Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - Set Random Seed to 1 - press OK.

Selections - Select none.

Step 17

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 18

Back to PSP - Edit - Undo - 2x.

Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - Set Random Seed to 2 - press OK.

Selections - Select none.

Step 19

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 20

Animation - Frame properties - 15.

Animation - Resize animation - Width 650 pixels.

Step 21

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied:

Save your crea as a gif file and you're done!

If you got a screen, click 4x Next - click 1x Finish.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on November 19, 2009.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

All my lessons are registered with TWI.

Translated by Zial on March 2, 2014

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