Christmas Story


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Supplies

The beautiful template is from

Scraps Dimensions
 

Permission tubes Here
 

Materials

PLUGINS

Alien Skin Xenofex 2
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact
AFS Import  (Import into Filter Unlimited 2.0)

Animation Shop


 

The tube(S) come from Nikita, NiniTube, Bieke.

If there is a tube of yours, please let me know so I can add your name.

Thanks to all the tube makers and creators for creating these wonderful tubes.

Leave the watermark on the tube intact.

Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Give credit to the creator.

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The colors, blend mode, and layer density in this lesson are chosen for these materials
 
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Step 1
Find a light color for the foreground and a dark color for the background from your tube.

Gerrie's color choice

 

Foreground color to color #e6e8eb -Background color to color  #a9bac4.
 

Step 2
- Replace your foreground color with a rectangular foreground/background gradient configured like this

Angle 1 - Repeats 1 - Invert checked - Horizontal and Vertical on 50

Step 3 
Open the SD template TAG TEMPLATE 43,

which will be the basis of your work.

Close all layers except Raster 1

 

Activate Raster 1

Activate Flood Fill Tool – Flood fill the layer with the gradient

Selections- Select All

Activate – image_noel_glass1 - Edit- Copy

Edit-Paste into selection
 
Selections- Select None

Step 4
Effects- Image Effects- Seamless Tiling use the settings below

Effects- Image Effects- Seamless Tiling using the default settings


Effects- Plugins- Filter in Unlimited2.0 - AFS Import - Splitdis - use the settings below


Step 5
Layers- New Raster Layer
 
Selections- Select All

Activate the tube - rand van sneeuw

Edit-Copy

Activate your work - Edit - Paste into selection

Selections- Select None


Step 6
Activate the tube - 1228382379_paysages.png

remove the watermark

 Edit- Copy
 
Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Place the tube to the bottom right

Layers- Duplicate

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal (Image - Mirror in older versions of PSP)
 

Step 7
Activate the tube - ffondneige2

 Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Place the tube to the top right (see finished image)


 
Layers- Duplicate

 Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal (Image - Mirror in older versions of PSP) 
You can move everything later

Step 8
Activate your accent tubes - Sneeuw 1
 Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Put this tube in the middle of your work

Put everything in a nice place of your choice

Gerrie added several tubes of snow - Place these tubes at your discretion

Step 9
Activate Raster 4 in the layers palette- Unlock this layer
 
Selections- Select All
Selections- Float
Selections -Defloat

Activate Flood Fill Tool – Flood fill the selection with the gradient

Selection remains active

Step 10
Activate your background tube- 1252518497_noel.png 
 Remove the watermark

 Edit- Copy
Activate your work - Edit - Paste into selection
Selections- Select None

Step 11
Activate -Raster 11 - and open this layer
We will leave this
 

Step 12
Open your pattern silverpipes in psp and set your background color to pattern


Step 13
Activate Raster 8 -unlock this layer

Selections- Select All
 Selections- Float
Selections- Defloat

Flood fill the selection with the pattern

Layers-Properties-Set the Blend Mode to Multiply

Selections- Select None
 

Step 14
Image - Free Rotate-with these settings


Effects - Image Effects - Offset use the settings below

 

Layers- Arrange- Move Down - This layer is under the layer of Raster 4.

Step 15
Activate the tube sneeuw 1
 Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Place it in the center over Raster 8 - Now it is nicely positioned behind it.

Step 16
Activate Raster 5- unlock this layer
 
Selections- Select All

Selections- Float
Selections- Defloat

Step 17

Open - noel_glass3
Edit-Copy

Activate your work - Edit - Paste into selection

Selection remains activated
 
Step 18
Layers- New Raster Layer
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Activate your accent tube  -  Sstyle_Poem_A-Christmas-Carol

Edit- Copy

Activate your work - Edit - Paste into selection

 Selections- Select None

Image - Resize 80% - resize all layers not checked

Layer Palette- make the layer below Raster 5 active

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal (Image - Mirror in older versions of PSP)

Activate your Move Tool

Put the Christmas story Sstyle_Poem_A-Christmas-Carol in the window.( see finished image )

Adjust - Hue and -Saturation -Colorize
 

Layers - Merge - Merge Down
 

Now move this to the left side - so you can still see the house.

Step 19
Effects- Plugins- Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Nature - Icicles
use the settings below- Color White


Effects- Plugins- Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow
use the settings below- Color is your foreground color


Step 20
Activate your Christmas tree - Nini_Tube_Startree3
Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer
Put it in the lower right corner - see finished image

Layers- Duplicate

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Effects - 3D - Effects - Drop shadow.

Horizontal and Vertical at 3 - Opacity at 40 - Blur at 4 - Color black


Step 21
Activate your chosen person tube- 12479955078_femmes_nikita

Image - Resize 80% - resize all layers not checked

Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Put it in the lower right corner - see finished image
 

Layers- Duplicate

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Effects - 3D- Effects - Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 22
Activate the tube maan

Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Move this tube at the top right

Effects - 3D- Effects - Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 23
Activate the tube - bisontine_noelchic_element1
Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Put this tube at the top right

Effects - 3D - Effects -Drop shadow of your choice.

Layers- Arrange- Move Down - This layer is below the layer of raster 6

Activate the top of the Layers palette

Step 24
Activate the tube - Lantaarnpaal
Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer -Move the tube to the bottom left

Effects - 3D - Effects -Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 25
Activate your tube of the boy with sledge- 1293385507_enfants_nikita
Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

-Move the tube to the bottom left - see finished image

Effects - 3D - Effects -Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 26
Activate the tube - 1287054605 noelnikital
Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

Put the girl on the sled -see finished image

Effects - 3D - Effects -Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 27
Activate the text WortArd

Edit- Copy

Activate your work -Edit - Paste as new layer

put the text at the top

Set the blend mode of this layer to Luminance ( legacy)

Effects - 3D - Effects -Drop shadow of your choice.

Layers- New Raster Layer
Add your watermark


Step 28

Layer palette - activate the layer of the Christmas tree

Effects- Plugins- Alienskin - Xenofex 2- Constellation - use the settings below

Edit- Copy Special-Copy Merged

Open Animatieshop

Edit - Paste - As new animation.

Step 29
Go back to the paintshop - Click the back arrow 1 time to go back one step.

Repeat -Effects-Plugins Alien Skin Xenofex - Contellation click 1 time on Random Seed

and OK

Edit- Copy Special-Copy Merged

Back to Animation Shop

Edit-Paste-Paste after current frame

Step 30
Go back to the paintshop - Click the back arrow 1 time to go back one step.

 

Repeat -Effects-Plugins Alien Skin Xenofex - Contellation click 1 time on Random Seed

and OK

Edit- Copy Special-Copy Merged

Back to Animation Shop

Edit-Paste-Paste after current frame

Edit - Select all


Step 31
For the Gallery

Animation - Resize animation to 800 pixels.

Step 32
File - Save as gif file

Give your image a name

Click next 4 times and save your image.

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Additional example

 

This lesson was written by Gerrie on Oct. 11, 2012

This lesson is and will remain the property of Gerrie.

They may not be copied or distributed without my written permission.

All my lessons are my own, so any similarity is purely coincidental.

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