Sparkling Christmas

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This tutorial was made in PSP X8, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

It@lian Editors Effects - Effetto Fantasma

Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they will working right away.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 color label - 2 masks - 1 preset EC5: Impact - Glass

Double click on the preset and it's automatically in the right plugin.

 

Permission to use the tubes

 

The tubes are by @nn, Gerrie, Maelledreams

The masks are by Ildiko Design and OBG.

 

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, masks and animation.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes and the masks in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #bec5b7 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #7f8873 (or at your choice).

Open tube 'Alfa Sparkling Christmas Gerrie.

Shift+D to copy it - close the original.

The copy is your working image.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'maelledreams-occasion10'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings:

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur: 10.

Effects - Plugins - Medhi - Sorting Tiles - Plus checked - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Italian Editors Effects - Effetto Fantasma - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with the color white (#ffffff).

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'OBG_MASK_46' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with the color white (#ffffff).

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'ildiko_design_mask_&_own_2016 (6)' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Element Sparkling Christmas Gerrie'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Alfa Sparkling Christmas Gerrie 2017' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with a color of your choice.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass.

Click tab Settings - find setting 'Magnifique -Kerst 2017- Gerrie' - see image below:

Step 7

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - color white.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.

Selections - Select all.

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

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 80 - Blur 10 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked - color white - with these settings:

Step 9

Copy tube 'Wordart'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on top of your crea and a little to the right - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color.

Step 11

Copy tube 'maelledreams-occasion10'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 2x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Place it on the right side - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - with these settings:

Step 12

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - see image below:

Draw a selection around the belly of the bottle - see image below:

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

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 13

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 2x.

Repeat Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - set Random Seed to 1944 - click OK.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 14

Animation - Frame properties: 15.

Step 15

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 3x Next - click 1x Finish.

Step 16

If you want your crea in my Gallery:

Image - Resize - longest side 800 pixels.

Send me an email with your crea and the name of the lesson.

 

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Gerrie on September 12, 2017.

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 December 5, 2017

 

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