Winter Beauty

Winter Beauty

You will need

Xero Porcelain Plugin
My zip file HERE
Place the gradients in your gradient folder
Place the dmswinter beauty preset in your presets folder
Please do not change any file names

1: Open the dmswinterbeautyalpha, shift d to duplicate and close the original.

Flood with the dmsice gradient angle and repeats set at zero, style linear invert is not checked.

2: Effects, texture effects fur with the following settings.

3: Layers new raster layer. Selections, loads/save selections load selection from alpha channel. Load selection 1.

Flood with the dmsivorysilk gradient angle and repeats set at zero, style linear invert is not checked.

Effects, 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings. I have included the preset for this in the zip file, but it may not work with older versions of PSP.

4: Open the jet-woman-fur-mei-2007 tube. Click on the bar at the top copy, back to the working image. Paste as new layer. Position as in the main graphic.

Adjust hue and saturation, colorize with the following settings. Hue 149 saturation 48.

Lower the opacity to 36.

5: Open the MA~Whitefur-06 tube. Click on the bar at the top copy, back to the working image. Paste as new layer. Position as in the main graphic.

Effects plugins, Xero Porcelain default settings.

6: At this point you can add any text you wish and your watermark.

When you are happy where everything is placed, merge all, flatten.

7: Image add borders 5 white.

Open the dmswinterbeautyframe. Click on the bar at the top copy, back to the working image. Paste as new layer. Merge all, flatten.

8:Save as a PSP image.

Adding the animated candles

1: Open the image you just saved in animation shop.

Edit copy. Edit, paste after current frame. Repeat the edit paste after current frame once more. You should now have 3 copies of the same image.

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

Click on the first one edit. Select all. Make sure you can see the bottom of the frame. If not drag the slider down to make sure you can.

2: Now open the dmswhitecandlesanimated. Pull out the 3 layers as before.

Click on the first frame of the candles. Edit select all. Edit propagate paste. click on the first frame of the candles and hold the mouse down. Drag the candle image to your main image and place where you would like it to be on your main image. When you are happy with the position release the mouse button. All 3 candle images will now be in the exact same place on all 3 frames.

If you wish to resize do it now.

3: View animation. If you are happy with the speed your candles flicker leave the setting at 10, but of course you may change it is you wish.

4: Save as a gif image.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 5, 2008.

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 tag.

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

Thank you to Geri for testing this tutorial.