Supplies Needed
1 tube of choice – I used
the beautiful artwork of Mayumi Ogihara which can be purchased from DigitalArt Heaven.
Becky mask 22 here
Snow here
Animation Shop
“Winter Night” is an
exclusive kit created by Moonshine Dezingz and can be purchased from Digital
Art Heaven here.
This tutorial was written
assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.
~♥~ Let’s
get started ~♥~
Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
So few layers of this
template will be used it’ll be easier to just tell you which layers TO KEEP.
Delete all layers ACCEPT
for the following:
Left Pink Square, Right
Pink Square, Center Pink Square, Lime Green Rectangle, and Center Green Strip.
Highlight the background
layer.
Image/Canvas Size
800 x 800
OK
Flood fill white.
Copy and paste Frame 1 as
a new layer just above the background layer.
Resize 70%
Click inside of it with
your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 4.
New Raster layer below
the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 3
Into Selection.
Deselect.
Highlight Center Green
Strip Layer.
Click on it with your Magic
Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4
Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template
layer.
Give the paper a slight
Inner Bevel:
Open up Frame 3.
Use your Selection Tool
set on Rectangle and section out a small area of the frame:
Make your Flood Fill tool
active and set the foreground to Pattern.
Look for the frame and
then change the settings:
Angle: 45
Scale: 100
Highlight Lime Green Rectangle
layer.
Click on it with your
Flood fill tool.
Give it the same slight
Inner Bevel.
Close out the frame
element.
Highlight Left Pink
Square.
Merge Down.
Merge Down again.
All 3 pink squares should
now be on one layer.
Click on each square with
your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1
Into Selection.
Deselect for now.
Copy and paste your tube
as a new layer and move it into approximate position – see my tag for
reference.
We’re going to add the
elements to the small squares – see my tag for element placement – and don’t
worry about what overhangs the edges. We’ll clean that up in a bit.
Copy and paste Element 25
as a new layer (don’t close this element out because we’re going to section out
and copy areas in just a bit).
Resize 40%
Make your Selection Tool
active set on FreeHand and change Feather to 10.
Make Element 25 from the
kit active.
Section around the fluffy
area of the snow – (the dotted lines will jump out a little further because you
changed the feather number).
Copy.
Paste the snow on your
working canvas just behind the church and move into position – see my tag for
reference.
Make Element 25 active
again.
Deselect.
Using your Freehand
Selection Tool again, settings are still the same –
Section out the tree on
the left side of the church, but don’t include the start on top.
Copy and paste on your
working canvas.
Resize 50%
Copy and paste Element 41 as a new layer.
Resize 12%
Copy and paste Element 23
as a new layer.
Resize 10% and 70%
Copy and paste Element 31
as a new layer.
Resize 40% and 90%
Duplicate the fluffly
snow layer and move it in front of the brown snow tree.
Make your Selection Tool
active.
Set the Feather number
back to zero.
Once all your elements
are in their position –
Highlight the merged
template layer with the 3 pink squares.
Click anywhere outside of
it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each element
layers that overhangs the template and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
DO NOT delete the
template layer.
Open up the snow that I
supplied:
Highlight Frame 1 layer.
Copy
Make your working canvas
active.
Paste the snow layer over
the top element within those 3 frames.
Rename this snow layer S1.
Make the snow I provided
active again.
Highlight Frame 2 layer.
Copy
Make your working canvas
active.
Paste Frame 2 as a new
layer just above S1 layer.
Rename this layer S2.
Continue copying and pasting
the snow layers onto your working canvas.
Once you’ve done that
highlight the merged pink template layer.
Use your Magic Wand and
click anywhere outside of it.
Highlight each snow layer
and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Close out all snow layers
accept for S1.
Copy and paste Frame 2 as
a new layer.
Resize 45%.
Duplicate.
Move both frames into position
– see my tag for reference.
Inside the top left
frame:
Click inside the frame
with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 4.
New Raster layer below
the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 8
Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube
as a new layer below the frame.
Resize as you like.
Move into a position you
like.
Selectons/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Change the Opacity of the
tube to Luminance (Legacy)
Lower the Opacity to 53.
To the lower right star
frame:
Apply the same paper in
the same manner as the top star.
Copy and paste Element 10 as a new layer.
Copy and paste Element 10 as a new layer.
Move into position at the
top left of your tag – see my tag for reference.
Duplicate
Mirror
Move into position at the
bottom left of your tag – see my tag for reference.
Highlight the white
background layer.
Select All
Selection/Modify/Feather:
Feather Amount: 30
OK
Selections/Invert
Highlight each pine
branch layer and tap the delete key until you like the feathered look you want.
Deselect.
Copy and paste Element 18
as a new layer.
Use your Eraser tool and
erase the 3 little flowers to the left of the large flower.
Resize the element 75%
Duplicate
Free rotate one of them
Left 10 degrees
To the other – mirror and
then Free Rotate Left 20 dgrees.
Add your
elements. I used:
El8: Resize 10%/duplicate as many times as you
like/duplicate and flip to place at bottom branch as well.
El 7: Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror
El 7: Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror
Highlight your white
background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 7
Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.
Add your copyrights.
Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground and Background:
#37261a
Type your name.
Convert to Raster Layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:
Copy Merge.
~Time to Animate~
Open up Animation Shop.
Edit/Paste as New
Animation.
Back in PSP.
Close out S1.
Open up S2.
Copy Merged.
Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current
Frame.
Back in PSP.
Close out S2.
Open up S3.
Copy Merged.
Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current
Frame.
Continue doing this until
you have all 10 snow layers copied and pasted into AS.
View your animation.
Don’t panic if it’s going
backward! That’s an easy fix…
Ctrl + A to highlight all
frames.
Animation/Reverse Frames
If you’re happy with your
animation –
Animation/Resize
Animation –
Click Pixel Size
Width x Height – 600
OK
Save your animation.
I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial.
I’d love to see your
results.
Hugs,
Bev
