The Beauty of a Snowflake
Supplies Needed
A main image (The one I used is by Brenda)
A snowy background
image
a window frame of your choice.
Van Der Lee Snowflakes
Animation Shop
You can download what
I used HERE
Firstly, I made my
duck wobble a bit.
Open your image,
resize to approximately 65% or whatever size you wish.
Duplicate this layer 5 times, so you have six layers. I renamed mine
2 duck layer, 3 duck layer so
you’d know where we were at in the tutorial.
Draw around the area
you want to wobble.
Keep selected the
whole through the next stages.
Starting from the
bottom up go to Distortion effects/Twirl
Enter 10 degrees in the
box.
Now move up to the
next layer and put 20 in the box and third layer put 30 in the box.
On the 4th
layer put -30 in the box
5th -20
and 6th -10
Select None.
Close the eye on all layers except the bottom two. Duck Body
and 2 Duck Body
Click on one of the
active layers and to to Edit/Copy/Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop
and Paste as a new animation.
Back to PSP and keep
your first layer visible but close the eye on 2 duck body.
Open the eye on 3 Duck
layer. Go to Edit/Copy/Copy Merged and then to Animation Shop and paste after
Current frame.
Back to PSP and
again, keep first layer, Duck body open and close out 3 Duck layer.
Open the eye on 4
duck layer and do the same as before. Do
this until all layers have been copied over to animation shop.
** PLEASE ENSURE THAT EACH TIME YOU CLOSE OUT A LAYER, THAT YOU CLICK ON THE
ACTIVE LAYER, OTHERWISE
IT WON’T COPY**
In Animation shop, you
should have six frames. Go to View Animation
You can make any
changes to Frame rate etc now. Leave
this open in Animation Shop
Now to make your background
etc.
Open a new image 600
x 600.
Open my jmr window
frame psd file.
It has two layers. I
left the layers separate in case you want to change the background image etc.
Enter your text,
name, watermark here before you go any further.
With your magic wand click inside each of the boxes in your window frame.
Layers/New Raster
Layer
Go to Effects/Plug Filters/Van Der Lee/Snowflakes.
I have included it in
the zip in case you don’t have it.
Use these settings
Press OK
Now Select None.
Go to Edit/Copy
Merged and go to Animation shop and paste as new animation.
Back to PSP and undo
the last two steps. Your window should
be selected.
Run Snowflakes again
but change the Random Seed number to 200
Select None. Edit/Copy Merged and Paste After current frame
in animation shop.
Back to PSP and undo
last two steps. Your selection is still active and run
Snowflakes again,
changing random seed to 300 this time.
Select None,
Edit/Copy Merged and paste into Animation shop.
You can do this as
many times as you wish, remember to change the random seed each time.
Now go to Animation
Shop and view your animation.
Make sure you have
the same number of frames with your animated image and your window image.
If not duplicate the
frames you need to make them equal.
Go to your main image
and with your pointer go to Edit/Select all/Copy
Then click onto your
window frame image/Select All/Paste into selected frame and place your cursor where
you want your main image to be placed. Left click your mouse and your image
will appear in all frames.
I also added my
sentiment in Animation Shop. Premade in
PSP.
Just make your sentiment and take it into animation shop. Duplicate it the same
number of times as you have frames and do the same as described earlier, by
selecting all, copying and pasting.
