
Gerrie,
thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your
tutorials.
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This tutorial was made in PSP X6, but can also be made in the other versions.
Animation Shop (AS) and the following plugins:
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation
Filters Unlimited 2.0 - <Bkg Designer sf10 I>
Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete
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: 3 tubes - 1 color label - 2 masks - 1 font.
Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tool of font FXplorer and it's in your font in PSP.
For this tutorial you need a tube of your choice.
Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are from the scrapkit by Nanly_Designe.
The masks are by @nn and MD.
Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and masks.
Please don't remove the watermark.
The Copyright belongs to the original artist.
Let the credit to the maker.
Step 1
Open the tubes, the color label and the masks in PSP - minimize them for now.
Set your foreground color to #dde7f1 - or at your choice.
Set your background color to #00384f - or at your choice.
Open a transparent image of 900 x 600 pixels.
Flood fill your image with your background color.
Step 2
Selections - Select all.
Copy your tube.
Paste into the selection.
Selections - Select none.
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 I> - Blur 'em! - default settings - see image below:

Effects - Texture effects - Weave - color white - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Step 3
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill this layer with your background color.
Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'MAST-MD-053' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.
Layers - Duplicate.
Layers - Merge - Merge down.
Step 4
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.
Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask '@nn_310513_mask_280_tdstudio' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
Step 5
Copy tube 'Element_27'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 6
Open your tube.
Image - Resize - Height 580 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Move her a little to the right.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 7
Copy tube 'Element_26'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 5x with 80% - All layers not checked.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Place it upper right - see main image.
Layers - Duplicate.
Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.
Place it on the right side, but lower then the first one.
Step 8
Activate your first ball.
Copy tube 'Element_09'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.
Put this ball on a nice place or see main image.
If the rope is too long, just erase ( ) a little part.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 9
Activate layer 'Copy of Raster 4'.
Layers - Merge - Merge down - repeat 2x.
The woman and the Christmas balls are merged.
Step 10
Activate your top layer.
Activate your Text tool - font 'Miss Lankfort - Size 30 - see image below:

Switch your colors.
Close your foreground color.
Type 'Wishing you a Merry Christmas' or your own text.
See main image for placing.
You can rotate the text until you like it, but in that case you better type your
text in 2 parts. First 'Wishing you a' - place it.
Then type 'Merry Christmas'.
Then it's easier to turn.
Layers - Convert to raster layer.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 100 - Blur 3 - color black.
Step 11
Activate your bottom layer.
Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal
Contrast - with these settings:

Layers - New raster layer.
Add your name and/or watermark.
Step 12
Activate layer 1 (the stars layer).
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 - with these settings:

Edit - Copy Special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Step 13
Back to PSP.
Click Undo 1x.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 - click Random Seed 1x.
Edit - Copy Special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.
Step 14
Back to PSP.
Click Undo 1x.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 - click Random Seed 1x.
Edit - Copy Special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.
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.
Give your crea a name and Save it.
I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)
This lesson was written by Gerrie on February 26, 2015.
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 1, 2015
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