January 28, 2016

Winters End

SNOWING TUTORIAL



Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on January 27th, 2016
for those who have a working knowledge of PSP.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere on the net.
If you want to translate please ask first. 

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Material:

PTU Kit "Winters End" TS by Creative Scraps by Crys, you can purchase it here 
Material: Neve 600x300, here
Font: Saldina

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--> Remember to save often and use my tag as reference if necessary. Use a Drop Shadow of your choice on layers. 

1. Create a new image 600x300. Add a new layer. Select all.

2. Open WE_Paper_12. Use custom selections as shown below:


3. Copy and paste into selection. Keep selected. Rename this layer BACK. Add a new layer. Open WE_Paper_6 and repeat the same before. Deselect.

4.Open WE_Frame_2. Resize 80%. Copy and paste as new layer. Using Free Hand Selection Tool > Point to Point select the frame border as shown below:



5. Click on the layer below the frame, should be the grey paper, and hit delete. Rename this layer COVER.

6. Click on frame layer. Open WE_Element_16. Resize 45%. Copy and paste as new alyer. Move it way to right. Open WE_Element_14. Resize 15%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move this layer below girl layer and place the lantern below her right hand. Click on first layer to continue. 

7. Open WE_Element_37. Resize 25%. Free Rotate: Left-130, Copy and paste as new layer. Move it way to left. Place it over the border braches. 

8. Open WE_Element_21. Resize 25%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to left and place it on bottom left corner a little over the previous leaf. Duplicate. Move it a little up and a little to right. Merge down.

9. Open WE_Element_39. Resize 25%. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it over the middle of the previous flowers

10. Add a new layer. Select all. Fill it with black. Contract 1. Delete. Deselect.

11. Click on BACK layer. Open WE_Element_26. Resize 45%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to left. Place it on left side of the landscape inside the frame. Duplicate and move it to right to make a complete fence. Merge down.

12. Open WE_Element_49. Resize 45%. Mirror. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to right.

13. Open WE_Element_8. Resize 45%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to left.

14. Open WE_Element_52. Resize 30%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to left.

15. Open WE_Element_53. Resize 15%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to left an place it on the fence. Click on first layer. Add your copyright info and license#. Add your name. You can save it as PNG now or continue to add snow to your tag.

16. Turn all layer from COVER layer to up invisible, COVER layer included. Copy merged. In AS -> Paste as new animation the image you copied from PSP. Duplicate it until it has 10 frames. Select all. Activate propagate paste. Open neve 600x300 and select all layer. Copy. Activate your tag back and paste into selected frames.

17. Back to PSP -> Now turn all layer visible again and close the visibility of layers below COVER but this time let COVER layer visible. Copy merged. In AS -> Paste as new animation. Copy. Activate the tag and paste into selected frames. Click to fix it over the back. Change the Frame Properties to 18. Save as GIF.