Winter Night

Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the beautiful artwork of Mayumi Ogihara which can be purchased from DigitalArt Heaven.

Font of choice – I used Rosalinda here

Becky mask 22 here

Dangerously Delicious Designz template 186 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.

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

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.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev