JOYFUL INSPIRATION

Vintage Autumn Girl (by Imze)

 

 

 

 

 

1

Open a transparent image 400x500 px. 

Set the foreground to #f1d5and and the background to #ec8615.

Make a gradient with your foreground color Sunburst and fill the layer with the gradient.

 

 

2

Open forest.png - Copy - add as a new layer. Set Opacity to 18. Merge down. Close forest.png.

 

3

 Open Girl CF.png - Past as a new layer on your working image. Duplicate. Go down one layer to the original layer Blur - Gaussian Blur 12. Up one layer - Merge down. Close image Girl.png

4

Make the background active. Open frame.png - past as a new layer.
Effect - Image Effect - Offset  H-2 V-30

 

5

Open goldpattern-ca_150x150.jpg

Top layer Active - Set your foreground to pattern - Open Images and find your gold pattern - Change the properties to 45 - 90.  

 

 

 

 6

 

New layer - Select all -  Contract 4 - Delete - Contract 4 and  Flood fill with same pattern - Contract 1 - Delete - Select None. Shadow 1-1-58-1 Black.

7

Paint Brush tool - Brush Fru-Fru 1 LR - Size 111.Apply in the left down corner - Duplicate - Mirror - Horizontal merge down. Mirror vertical. Adjust brightness and Contrast 16 - 35. Add shadow with the same settings as before. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

8

 

If you don't want to animate make forest layer Active - add New layer - Open Etoile.png - Copy and past at both sides of the girl. 

Merge all layers add your watermark. Add your name or text foreground 0 background the gold pattern. Use my font or the one you like. Merge all layers,

Save it as a jpg and your done!!

 

9

Animation

Close the girl layer. Copy merged. Past as a new animation in AS. Duplicate 4 times until you have 9 frames.

10

 

Open Etoile.mng in AS. Select all - Cull animation Remove 1 frame every 2 frames. You will have 9 frames. Copy Past in your tag image inside the frame to the right. Back to Etoile -  Select all frames - Reverse frames - Copy and past in the left side of the frame. Select all -  Propagate past.

 

11

 

In PSP open up  the girl layer. Copy - In AS - Past into selected frames. Don't move your mouse - then it will get in the right Place!

I use to save it first as a .mng file. Then you can open it again and again and add names or text without loosing quality.
 

12

 

I use to add name/text after animation Just stay in PSP write your text- add effects - copy and past as a new animation and then past into selected frames on your tag. (Propagate past)

Save it as GIF!