This is my own creation, I saw a Christmas Card that was similar and made my design based on
that.
You may not copy this tutorial but are welcome to link to it from your
own group or site. Thank you
This tutorial was written using PSP9
and Animationshop
Filters Used: Alien Skin Xenofex2 Constellation here
Effects Alien SkinXenofex2 Constellation with the following
settings:
Choose #eb9c1f for your foreground and white for your
background - choose gradient with the following settings
Go to preset shapes and choose ellipse and with the following
settings draw a big circle. Your darker colour should be at the bottom. If you hold the shift
key whilst you draw your circle it will be nice and round.
Obects, Align and centre in your canvas - move it slightly
upwards
Convert to raster layer
Gaussian Blur 15
New Raster Layer
Go to the image supplied and copy and paste it as a new layer -
make sure it is over your moon - resize if necessary
Then take your paintbrush and with white brush some snow across
the bottom of you picture - make sure your hardness setting is about 15 to give a nice soft
edge.
Now go to your tubes and pick a nice sparkle - place up in the
left hand corner. Fairly large.
Now put some text across your snow - I used a drop shadow of
H1,V1, opacity 93, blur 7
Merge layers
Add border 3 black
Add border 3 white
Add border 3 black
Add watermark
Duplicate layers twice so you now have three layers
Take the same sparkle tube that you used before and change the
size to smaller than you used before and click directly in the centre of your sparkle to give
it a brighter light - do it again on your third layer with your tube sparkle size smaller
again.
Save your image as an Animationshop Image and then go in to
Animationshop - and open your image.
Select all frames (ctrl a) and then press Alt and Return to get
the Frame Properties - change this to 35 - play your animation to make sure it is ok and then
save as a gif.
