A Winters Day

This tutorial was written by me and for those

who have a good working knowledge of psp.

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice, I used artwork by ©Suzanne Woolcott.

Scrap kit, I used (PTU) Holiday Ice by Designs by Sarah

at Pimp My Tags W/ Scraps.

Mask, I used Big Mask 18 by Vix

Font of choice, I used Happyjamas.

Plug-in, I used VanDerLee - Snowflakes

Animation Shop

Let's Begin! 

Open window 

Re-size by 75% with re-size all layers UNchecked

Now you have some room to work with

Paste paper 1

Apply noise at 20

Apply mask

Merge group

Using your magic wand tool click outside frame

Invert

Expand by 4

Invert

Paste paper 11

Apply noise at 20

Invert

Contract by 6

Delete

Using selection tool draw out a rectangle 

just bigger than the opening of window

Invert

Paste paper 8 

Delete

Paste paper 2

Delete

Change blend mode on paper 2 to luminance (L)

Paste tree 2 and re-size and place where you like

Paste tube

Paste bow 2 and place in center top area

Add name and copyright info

I added noise to my name 

Now once you have the tag as you like it, it's time to 

animate it

Click the layer right below the frame layer

for me that's the tube layer

Now add 4 new layers

Now apply snowflakes plug in to each layer 

only changing the random seed setting

So the first one is set at 500
Then 1000,2000,3000 for other layers
Select background paper and float
Invert
Delete on all 4 layers so snow in only frame size
Close the 1000,2000,3000 layers off and copy merge and paste into AS

Go back to PSP and close the 500 layer and open 1000
Copy merge and paste after current frame in AS

Continue these steps until all 4 layers are pasted in AS.

Shift A and change frame properties to 15

Save as Gif