Blue Winter Tut (PTU)

 Blue Winter

I created this tag on October 16^th, 2010.  It was inspired by my dear friend Vaybs.  Any resemblance to any other tag is strictly by coincidence.  I am now going back and writing a tut on how I made it and so there may be a couple of things that I won’t be able to tell you exactly how I did it

This tutorial is written for those with a knowledge of PSP and I wrote it using PSPX2 

and Jasc Animation Shop 3.  

Fair Warning...this is my first tutorial

LET’S BEGIN

I’m using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis.  You must have a license to use his artwork and you can purchase his art at MPT.

I have used elements from 3 different scrap kits:

PTU:  Winter Magic by Addictive Pleasures can be purchased here

FTU:  Ice Princess by Fantasy Moments can be downloaded here

FTU:  Winter Impressions by Fantasy Moments can be downloaded here

Mask used is WSL_Mask254 from Weescotslass Creations here

A snow animation of your choice or you can use this one here.  
I don't remember where I got it.  If it is yours or you know who it belongs to, please let me know so that I can give proper credit

Plug ins used:

DSB Flux>Bright Noise

Pentacom >Jeans

Xero>Porcelain

Font:  Frosty

HERE WE GO

Open a new canvas of 970x800, flood fill with white.

Copy and paste your tube and CU into your image as new layers and make your CU invisible, for now.

Open Frame2.png from Winter Magic, select Image>Mirror.  I adjusted the blue tint just a bit using the Manual Color Correction.

With your magic wand, select the area inside the upper right frame circle.  Expand selection by 2.  Open new raster layer below frame and flood fill selection with a medium color from your tube.  Apply Pentacom> Jeans with default settings.  Select>None.

Make your CU visible, mirror it and position it inside the frame.  Change Blend Mode to Luminance Legacy and an opacity of 88%.  Duplicate and apply Xero>Porcelain with default settings, Blend Mode Normal and an opacity of 44%.  Activate your Jeans Background layer and with your Magic Wand, select the transparent area.  Activate your 1^st CU layer, hit and hit your Delete Key and do the same on the second CU layer.  Merge the first CU layer down on to the Jeans background and then merge the 2^nd CU layer down. 

Open bg.jpg from Winter Magic, copy and paste as New Layer below the frame layer, resize 75%.  (You are going to have to play with this one to get the tint that you want.)  De-saturate: Adjust> Hue and Saturation  Saturation= 0, Lightness = 0.  Adjust> Brightness and Contrast> Brightness/Contrast> Brightness = 5 and Contrast = -1.  Selections>Select All, Selections>Float, Selections Defloat, add new raster layer, Blend Mode> Overlay.  Now fill selected area with a color from your tube and then kinda play with the colors til you get the tint that you want. 

 Merge the overlay layer down on to your background layer and position in lower left circle of frame.  Using your magic wand, select the area inside the circle and expand by 2 invert selection, activate bg layer and hit delete.  I suggest that you lock these layers together.  Resize frame, bg and CU images by 90%.  Position your tube in front of the frame.

From the Winter Impressions kit: 

Element-14 as new layer on top for visibility.  Use you Magic Wand with these settings  Mode = Add, Match Mode = Color,  Tolerance = 24,  Feather = 0.  Select all the blue color and De-saturate.  Using the Manual Color Correction, choose a medium gray color from your element and change to a color from your tube.  Invert Selection, Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Brightness/Contrast set Brightness = 25, Contrast=13.  Select None.  Bring layer down to second from the bottom and position to the left.

From the Ice Princess kit:

Element-19: Mirror, Desaturate and recolor using the Manual Color Correction.  Bring Layer down to just above your tree and position to the right.  Element-46: desaturate, recolor, resize by 55% and position at the top of the bottom left circle of the frame.  Element-76: desaturate, recolor, resize by 37% and position at the top of the right circle of the frame.  Element-77:  I used the lasso to select the blue gems, desaturate, recolor, select none, resize 50%.  Position to right of frame.

From the Winter Magic Kit:

Snowflake2: Resize by 50 %, duplicate and merge down.  Duplicate your snowflake 2X and position the 3 snowflakes in your image.  Glitter2: Position to right and bring layer down below ribbon.  Snow.png:  Position layer to the right and over the legs on your tube.  Swirl3:  Position along the bottom over the legs.  Snowflake4:  Rotate 45⁰  , position to the left over the tree and frame.

Activate your bottom layer and open a new raster layer. Flood fill with the color of your choice or copy and paste one of the papers and apply the Mask. 

Add the artist’s copyright and your license number.  I usually apply Eye Candy 4000>Gradient Glow to this text to make it stand out better.

Apply Drop Shadows to your liking.  I’m a drop shadow freak and apply drop shadows to everything but the mask.  I used a dark blue from my tube for my drop shadow color.

Now for the snow animation:

I do things a little different than most ppl do.

Make only your layers that are below your frame visible, your frame and everything above it will not be visible.  Merge visible.  Select View All and with your Magic Wand, select the transparent area inside your frame, expand by 2, then make your merged bottom layer invisible and Merge Visible.  You should now have just 2 layers with marching ants around the edge of the inside of the frame.  Activate your bottom layer and open a new Raster Layer and name it “Snow”,  duplicate 9X (You want as many layers as your snow animation…the one I am using has 10 layers).  Working from the bottom up on both images, open your snow animation and make only the first layer visible.  In your materials, choose patterns, and select your snow.  Activate your 1^st snow layer and fill your selected area.  Go back to your snow animation and make only the second layer visible, open your materials and select the new Snow pattern (NOT THE ONE THAT SAYS CURRENT PATTERN).  Activate your 2^nd Snow layer in your image and fill your selected area.  Repeat these steps until you have all 10 layers of Snow.   

Duplicate both of your merged layers 9X.  Make only your first layer of all 3 groups visible; activate the bottom layer and Merge Visible.  Make the merged layer invisible and make the first of each group visible, activate the bottom visible layer and Merge Visible.  Repeat these steps until you have 10 merged layers.  I save this as a PSP file so that I can come back and add a name. 

For the name, I used the Frosty font in white, rotated it by 15⁰ to the left.  Convert to Raster, Select All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, Expand by 2.  Open new Raster Layer below the name layer and fill selection with a dark color of your choice.  Select None and add drop shadow.  Activate Name Layer, Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, merge name layer down with outline layer and again with the shadow layer, duplicate 9X.  Activate 1^st name layer and apply DSB Flux>Bright Noise set at 40 and Mixed.  Activate 2^nd name layer and hit Ctrl+Y to open up Bright Noise again, click 2X on mixed and OK.  Activate 3^rd layer and repeat these steps for all of your name layers.  Select None.  Arrange your layers so that each name layer is above the corresponding merged layers and then merge each name layer down to it’s merged layer.  Resize your image to the desired size and save as a PSD or PSP Animation Shop file.  Open in Animation Shop and Animate.

I realize that the wink is not included.  You may see this type of animation in other creations of mine but I will not be providing a tutorial on how to do it. 

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This Tutorial was written in October, 2010 by me, MsGoddess2U, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted and registered with TWI.