Let It Snow

 

In this PSP tutorial I used the artwork of Alicia Mujica

available for purchase at AliciaMujicaDesigns. 

This tube is found in the Winter Special Edition 2018 pack 

Anyone wishing to use the same image in their own personal creation

MUST have the proper license for that image

PTU Scrapkit called Emelia Snow by Kathy's Psp Designs

Thank you Kathy! ♥

WordArt supplied HERE

Circular Snow Animation HERE

Mask 20/20 HERE

Animation Shop

Optional filter Eye Candy 5 Nature: Snowdrift 

Font KG A Little Swag

Open New Image 675 x 655 px

Be sure the resolution is set to 72 px/inch & color depth 

is set to RBG 8 bits/channel - transparent checked.

Flood fill white

Add a new raster layer, select All

open Paper 2 C/Paste into the selection

deselect.

Open element 71 - resize 85%

C/P

Select all - float, defloat, invert

Back to paper layer, press delete.

Deselect.

Delete element 71.

Open element 32 - resize 75% CP

Open element 80 C/P to right upper portion of tag

duplicate - mirror, flip

Merge these two layers

Apply mask 20/20 to above

Open frame 9 - resize 85%

C/P

Adjust brightness/contrast Clarity

setting 112, 97

click inside this frame with magic wand

modify expand selection by 3 px

select 'masked' element 32

and press delete. Deselect

Open element 38, resize 55%

C/P below silver frame but above 'masked layer;

place lower left to center

Open element 77 resize 50%

C/P ontop snowball to mimick Snowman

Open element 21 - resize 32% C/P above silver frame to right

Rotate 10 degrees to right, sharpen using unsharp mask

setting 1, 55, 5 luminance checked

Add main tube, resize 40% C/P

using selection tool - freehand - feather setting 5

Draw a selection around the bottom of the tube

to delete portion extending beyond bottom of frame

Delete & deselect.

Optional: Duplicate tube.

On duplicate, apply eyecandy 5.0- snowdrift

setting Small - first flakes

drop opacity to 73%

Open element 39 - resize 50% C/P to bottom righ to tube

Open wordart element 3, resize 42%

C/P

Use the selection tool - rectangle, feather 0

select each word separately,

promote each to a new layer.

Arrange these words - see reference tag above

using pick tool to rotate, sharpen after rotating

using unsharp mask, same setting as above.

Open elment 5 - resize 75%

C/P over bottom of main tube

Open Word Art "Let It"

C/P

Open Word art Element 64 - resize 37%

C/P, apply brightness/contrast setting 25/5

Open element 66 - resize 40%

C/P to left of main tube

Add any other elements of choice

If you wish to resize tag, do so now before adding

copyright as resizing will distort the copyright.

Add copyright, license & url

Add name

Drop shadow any elements you wish to define

ie. Wordart using a soft setting like 1/1/35/3 color #606060

for the most part, a dropshadow was not used

except for Word Art & Name

To test overall placement of elements so none are cut-off,

add a new raster layer ABOVE the white background

Flood fill black or any dark color.

This will show if any of the white elements extend beyond the image

to eliminate this, erase with eraser tool

To Animate:

*Above is a preview of the snow animation included - do not save preview*

Download the MNG file from Mediafire instead

Close or delete white & black background layers

Close 'Off' all layers beginning from top

ie. copyright, sparkles, snow, both word art, name,

build a snowman wordart, snowballs to right,

ticket & silver frame

Above the 'closed' black background layer,

add a blank new raster layer

Now Edit - Copy - Merged 

Open animation shop, paste an a New animation

duplicate 9 times to create 10 frames to match snow animation

Select All - Propogate Paste

Open MNG snow file in animation shop

Select all - Copy

Drag first frame of snow onto first frame of your tag & release

Check animation by selecting 'view'

if placement is off, simply undo & try again.

Back to PSP, hide all the layers that are open

except the blank raster layer above the black background

then open all the Top closed layers

as listed above.

Keep the white & black background layers closed.

Edit - copy merged

Paste into A/S as a new animaton, duplicate

frame 9 times to equal 10 frames

Select All & Copy

Drag first frame of this top layer

onto the working animation layer first frame

release & check animation.

If you wish to add background color

to your animated tag, select animation properties

solid colour white or colour of choice.

Optomization Wizard

Using these settings:

Optomize - Customize

Colors 255 colors, optomized octree

error diffusion checked,

optomizations - middle 3 checked

Select All - animation properties

add white background

view your animation. 

& save as a GIF

Hope you enjoy this wintery tag!