Here Comes Santa

Here Comes Santa Claus

You will need

MuRa's Meister Cloud plugin

VDL Adrenalin Snowflakes plugin

My zip file HERE

Please do not change any of the file names

1: Open a new transparent canvas 500X375

Set your foreground to #2b2048 and your background to #3d5277.

2: Effects, plugins MuRa's Meister Cloud with the default settings

3: Open the Vic-Cmas-aircm tube. Click on the bar at the top. Copy. Back to the working image. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 60% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked.

Adjust sharpness Sharpen.

Move slightly to the upper right.

Merge visible.

Duplicate this layer twice.

4: X out the top 2 layers and make sure the bottom layer is active.

Effects plugins VDL Adrenalin Snowflakes with the following settings.

5: Move to the middle layer and remove the X.

Add the Snowflakes plugin with the same settings, but this time change the random seed to 200.

6: Move to the top layer and remove the X.

Add the Snowflakes plugin with the same settings, but this time change the random seed to 300.

X out the top 2 layers again and making sure the bottom layer is active open the dmschristmastext tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer.

Duplicate the text layer twice and pull a copy above each of the Xed out main layers. X out the 2 copies, but not the original.

Click on the first main layer. Merge visible. If all went well you should have one main layer merged with one text layer.

X out this layer.

7: Remove the X from the first duplicated main layer and the first copy of the text. Make sure one of them is active and merge visible.

8: Remove the X from the second duplicated main layer and the second copy of the text. Make sure one of them is active and merge visible.

Remove the X from all 3 layers and save as a PSP 7 image.

Animation

1: Open your image in Animation Shop.

2: Click on the right side and pull out the 3 layers.

3: Edit select all.

4: Animation frame properties 35 (or a speed you prefer)

5: Save as a gif image.

There you have a very simple, but pretty animated Christmas tag.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on November 2, 2007.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this image.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Carol for testing this tutorial.