Leny, heel erg bedankt voor je toestemming om je lessen te mogen vertalen.

Thank you Leny, for your permission to translate your beautiful tutorials.

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For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Texture - Texturizer

VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 4 tubes - 1 gold pattern - 1 mask - 1 animation - 1 font.

Place the gold pattern in your Pattern folder.

Place the mask in your Mask folder.

Open FXplorer: click on Tools - Load fonts (by folder).

Go to the folder where your fonts are.

Click on the letter of the font you need.

When it's done, the fonts are in the fonts in PSP.

 

The tubes are by Leny and Molly.

The mask is by Leny.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes and mask.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

 

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #ffffff.

Set your background color to #a0070a.

Set your foreground to gold pattern 'MD-Xmasgold' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Open a transparent image of 500 x 400 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Texture - Texturizer - Sandstone - with these settings:

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask 'Lenymaskerkerst' - with these settings:

Layers - Delete.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 4 - Opacity 45 - Blur 6 - color black

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 3

Click with your Magic wand in the red area - Tolerance to 10.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - with these settings:

Select the beard of Santa.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 4

Copy tube 'Leny-kerst0'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Image - Mirror.

Place the gazebo on the left side - see main image.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 80.

Move raster 2 below the mask raster.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Leny-kerst13'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 2 with 75% - All layers not checked.

Place him on the right side, just above the red line.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 80.

Layers - Merge - Merge all.

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font Christmas - Size 34 - Stroke width 2,0.

Set your foreground to your gold pattern.

Type: Merry Christmas.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 85 - Blur 2 - color black.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Selections - Select all.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 100 - Blur 25 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

Copy tube 'Leny-kerst5'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place him in the lower right corner.

Step 8

Copy tube 'RM-Xmas-Frosty-elf-001-SM_molly'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 50% - All layers not checked.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as the last time.

Place the branch between the words - see main image.

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 10

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

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 - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Resize - Width 480 pixels.

Step 11

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 10 pixels.

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

You now have 3 layers.

Close the 2 top layers.

Activate the bottom layer.

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

Step 12

Open and activate the middle layer.

Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - set Random Seed to 150.

Open and activate the top layer.

Effects - Plugins - VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes - set Random Seed to 200.

Selections - Select none.

Activate the bottom layer.

Edit - Copy.

Step 13

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

Back to PSP.

 Activate the middle layer.

Edit - Copy.

Step 14

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Activate the top layer.

Edit - Copy.

Step 15

To AS: Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 16

Open animation 4 in AS.

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

Step 17

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place them on top of your crea.

Repeat: Paste into selected frame until the top is filled.

Step 18

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!

 

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

Hugs Leny

 

This lesson was written by Leny.

This lesson is and remains the property of Leny.

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

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

 

Translated by Zial on December 11, 2018

 

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