Snowy Wreath
Essentials Needed:
1 main image
1 Background image
1 frame with
transparent centre
VanDer Lee Snowflakes
or a snowflake animation.
I created the little
girl at the postbox and the Holly wreath in Bing, so have uploaded them for you
A wintery background.
You can download them
here
Open a new 600 x 600
pixel, transparent background image.
Open your
wreath.
I know the wreath
would be my top layer, so I added my text now, or you could add the text in
animation shop, whichever you find works for you. I merged visible the text and
the wreath.
You can either use
your magic wand to select the centre of the wreath,
Or do as I did, which
was to draw an ellipse with my selection tool.
I wanted it to overlap the wreath frame a little.
Open your background
image and resize as necessary, Edit/Copy.
Go back to your
wreath and add a new Raster Layer.
Edit/paste into
selection.
Keep Selected. Layers/Arrange/Move Down so the background is
underneath the wreath layer.
Now open your main
image. Again resize to your liking.
Edit paste as a new
layer in between the background and the wreath.
That is really the
tag made, but I chose to make some snow.
I know you know how to do it by now, but it just adds so much to the tag, in my
opinion.
So inner of the
wreath is still selected. Layers/New
Raster Layer. Move this layer beneath the Wreath, so the snow appears inside
the wreath.
Go to
Effects/Plugins/VanDerLee/Snowflakes.
Set it as below or as
heavy as you want the snowfall to be.
When you have done
this, select none.
Go to Edit/Copy Special/Copy Merged
Open animation shop
and Paste as a new animation.
Go back to PSP and
undo the last two steps so that your layer is selected and run Snowflakes
again, remembering to move the Random slider at the bottom so your flakes fall
in different places.
Select None,
Edit/Copy Special/Copy Merged and go into animation shop and paste/after
current layer.
Back to PSP for the
last time and again, undo last two steps – your layer should still be selected.
Do snowflake effect –
again moving random slider over a bit.
Copy/Copy Special/Copy Merged
Go into animation
shop and paste after Current Layer.
Go to view animation
and if it’s like mine you will need to change the speed of the falling
snow.
In Animation Shop go
to Select All
Then animation/Frame
properties and change the number in the box to whatever you want. I changed to 18.
That’s it done. I hope you enjoyed this one.
