You will need

FM Tile Tools

VDL Adrenaline 

Animation Shop

My zip file HERE

Please respect those who made the contents and do not change the file names

1: Open a new transparent canvas 625X500. Fill with the dmbutterkisses gradient with the following settings. Angle 0, repeats 1, style linear. Invert is not checked.

2: Open the Misted_Moonlight_RM tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and lower the opacity to around 70%.

Effects, plugins, FM Tile Tools, Blend Emboss with the default settings.

3: Open the Misted_Snow_Covered_Trees_RM tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and lower the opacity to around 70%.

Effects, plugins, FM Tile Tools, Blend Emboss with the default settings.

4: Open the Misted_Snow_Forest_RM tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and lower the opacity to around 70%.

Effects, plugins, FM Tile Tools, Blend Emboss with the default settings.

5: Open the Alies 144 - Gezichten - 03112009 tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

Effects, plugins, FM Tile Tools, Blend Emboss with the default settings.

6: Add any text you may require and your watermark.

7: Layers, merge, merge all, flatten.

8: Image add borders 14 white.

9: Layers, promote background layer. Layers duplicate. Duplicate the main layer once more. You should now have 3 layers in all. Starting at the bottom layer number the layers 1, 2 and 3.

9: Click on layer 1 to make it active.

Selections, select all, selections modify contract by 14.

10: Effects, plugins, VDL Adrenaline, Snowflakes with the following settings.

Leave selected.

11: Click on 2 to make it active. Apply the same snowflakes effect, but change the random seed to 250.

Leave selected.

12: Click on 3 to make it active. Apply the same snowflakes effect, but change the random seed to 500.

Select none.

13: Click on layer 1. Save as a PSP 7 image.

NOTE: Do not resize graphic or the frame will not fit when you add it in Animation Shop.

Animation

1: Open the graphic you just made in Animation Shop. Click on the bar at the right side to pull out the layers.

2: Open the dmsbluechrismasframe.

Edit copy. Edit, Paste after current frame. Edit paste, after current frame. This will give you the 3 frame layers you need.

3: Click on the first frame of your frame animation.

Edit, select all. Edit copy.

4: Back to the main image. Again click on the first frame. Edit select all. Edit, propigate ppaste. This will paste your frame on to all 3 main images.

All 3 frames should remain selected, but just check to be sure. If not click on the first frame again and edit, select all.

5: Make sure that first frame is still selected. Animation, frame properties 20 (or a speed you would prefer)

6: Save as a gif and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on December 4, 2009

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 Cody for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2009