Winter Wonder World

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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 Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Vizros - Book (you have to install this plugin)

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 work immediately.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 6 tubes - 1 picture - 1 animation.

 

The tubes are by JHanna, Kara2601, Manon (MTM) and Mario C.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

 

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, picture 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 picture in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #d9e1d5 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #2d312a (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Selections - Select all.

Copy picture 'JHanna_144 bground'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 2

Open tube 'mc1029'.

Image - Resize - Height 450 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her upper right - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 65 - Blur 2 - background color.

Step 3

Open tube 'kTs~lk3020'.

Image - Resize - Height 400 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 70% - All layers not checked.

Place it a little to the left - see main image.

If you like an other color for your Christmas ball, use:

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 65 - Blur 1 - black.

Step 4

Copy tube 'Mtm_Birds 16-Ready for the hunt snowy-24 Sept 2005'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place him in the lower left corner - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 65 - Blur 2 - black.

Step 5

Copy tube 'KaraT3610'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Move it down and in the middle - see main image.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Click Shift+D to duplicate this image and minimize it.

Step 6

Activate your main working image.

Layers - Promote background to layer.

Effects - Plugins - Vizros - click on Register and fill in the code.

Effects - Plugins - Vizros - Book - with these settings:

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

Click 1x in the white area.

Press Delete.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy - Paste as a new image.

Step 7

Image - Resize - Width 300 pixels - All layers checked.

Click with your Magic wand in the darker area on the left side of the book.

Flood fill it with white and add your name there or flood fill it with a nice pattern, like I did.

Edit - Copy.

Step 8

Activate your minimized image.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 10 - nothing checked.

Move it down and in the middle - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 9

Open tube 'Kerstklok'.

Image - Resize - Height 160 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put it right below - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 10

Open tube 'Text_MerryChristmas'.

Image - Resize - Width 200 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put it on a nice place.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - black.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - white.

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

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Step 13

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 65 - Blur 10 - white.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 5.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Open Animation Shop (AS).

Edit - Paste - As a new animation.

Step 14

Click Ctrl+C - click now 5x Ctrl+L.

You now have 6 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 15

Open animation 'Animatie-b-24ster' in AS.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.

Step 16

Activate your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Place the star in the Christmas ball.

Place as much as you like, just repeat:

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Animation - Frame properties - 25.

Step 17

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied:

You can resize your crea if you want:

Animation - Resize animation - Width 500 pixels.

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 June 24, 2010.

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 June 19, 2013

 

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