PEACOCKY WINTER PTU

PEACOCKY WINTER

Written by Gwenda on November 17^th 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used A&S Christmas Script, found

HERE

Scrapkit is another beautiful Pay to Use kit called Peacocky Holiday by Nicky of Devilish Designz.

You can purchase this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Xmas Bonus by Ismael Rac. You can purchase these beautiful tubes from Rac’s store.

HERE

Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass.

HERE

Snow

HERE

New canvas 700 x 700

Fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Frame 6 – Resize 90%. Free rotate right 90. Sharpen

Dropshadow.

Paper 1 -  Resize 60% and paste below frame. Don’t worry about the excess – we will be sorting that out later.

OK . . . now for the fun bit – the Snow!!

Click on Paper 1, which should be sitting just under the frame.

Go to Snow 484 x 484 and copy frame 1.

Back to your tag, and paste as a new layer. Rename SNOW1

If you don’t want to animate, do not paste any more snow layers, but go directly to ***

Back to Snow 484 x 484 and copy frame 2

Back to your tag and paste as a new layer above SNOW1.

Rename this one SNOW2.

Keep doing this with all the snow frames from Snow 484 x 484, pasting each one above the other and renaming as you go.

You should end up with 10 snow layers and a really messy looking tag lol.

Don’t Panic! Tidy-up time.

*** Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 10. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 1 and hit delete. Click on each of the snow layer(s) in order, and hit delete.

Deselect.

Now in layers palette, go to each of the snow layers, and click the little eye to the left to close it. Do this to all snow layers except SNOW1.

Tree 3 – Position to the left. Dropshadow.

Snow 2 (from the scrapkit) – position at the bottom to the left.

Duplicate, and move bottom copy to the right.

Merge both Snow2 layers together.

Dropshadow.

Stocking 2 – Mirror. Resize 60%. Free rotate right 15.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Sprig 3 – Position to the left. Dropshadow.

Birdhouse –Resize 70% & position on left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Sprig 4 – Mirror. Flip. Resize 50%.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Ribbon 3 – Resize 60%. Sharpen

Position to left.

Duplicate and move to the right

Dropshadow.

In layers palette, move the left ribbon to sit between the two Sprig 4 layers. You will move the right hand ribbon shortly.

Tube – Position. Dropshadow.

Snow & Branch 2 – Resize 50% then 75%. Sharpen and place to the right.

Duplicate – mirror and resize 75%.

Dropshadow both.

Gifts 1 – Mirror. Resize 40%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

In layers palette, move your Ribbon 3 up so it is sitting above Gifts 1.

Ribbon 2 – Resize 75%. Free rotate left 90.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Candycane 2 – Resize 50%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Gift 1 – Resize 40%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Pinecone 2 – Resize 30%. Free rotate right 15. Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Bow 3 – Resize 40%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice

Crop and resize if desired.

Add copyrights.

Close off white background.

Ready to Animate??

Open Animation Shop.

In PSP make sure all snow layers are closed off, except SNOW1

Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – as new animation.

Back to PSP.

Close SNOW1 and open SNOW2.

 Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – after current frame.

Back to PSP.

Close SNOW2 and open SNOW3.

 Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – after current frame.

Repeat this last step, closing off one snow layer and opening the next until you have 10 frames in Animation shop.

In Animation Shop.

Edit – select all

Animation – animation properties.

Check box opaque and change colour to white. Click OK.

Edit – select all

Animation – frame properties. Change display time to 5

Save as a gif file.

I hope this wasn’t too confusing, as it’s a lovely snow effect if you take the time to do it.

Thanks for trying this tutorial and I would love to see your results!