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Open all the materials into psp, except the snow animation

Part 1

Tag base:

Open a new transparent image of 700x700 and floodfill with white.

Copy Snowdays-Paper7 and paste as new layer.
Copy Snowdays-frame1 and paste as new layer.
Copy Snowdays-Paper2 and paste as new layer.
Copy Snowdays-sled1 and paste as new layer.
Copy Snowdays-frame2 and paste as new layer.

Slide the blue layer and the sledge a little upwards so they fit nice into the frame, see preview.

Copy Snowdays-snowballs and paste as a new layer, put it into the left down corner, see preview.

Copy Snowdays-mittens and paste as a new layer, Put it to the right, see preview.

Copy Snowdays-sign1 and paste as a new layer, put it on the frame at the right side.

Copy Snowdays-tag2 and paste as a new layer, Put it into the right upper corner on the frame, see preview.

Copy Snowdays-bow1 and paste as a new layer, put it on the tag, see preview.

Activate your text tool and type Your name, I rotated it 22 degrees to fit on the name-tag.

Part 2

Dropshadow

Give the next layers a dropshadow:
Both of the frames,
The little men with the sledge,
The snowballs,
The gloves,
The textlabel "cold hands',
The name tag,
The extra bow on the name tag
And Your name on the tag.

I used the next dropshadow: 0 0 40 20 black = #000000

Part 3

Prepair snow animation in psp

Activate the layer with the men with the sledge in Your layer palet.
Merge downwards and repeat this till the bottom layer, so also the white layer is merged with it.
Cale this merged layer "base'
Click on the eye of this layer so its closed.

Activate Your toplayer and merge visible.
Call this layer "Top"
Open the eye of the base layer so that layer is visible again.

You only have two layers left , the Top layerand the Base layer.
Activate Your base layer,  --> Copy

Part 4

Make the snow animation in AS

Open animation shop

Paste as new image.

Duplicate this image til You have 10 frames.
Click Control A and all the frames are selected.

Open the cold hands snow.gif in Animation shop.
It has also 10 frames.
Click also here control A so they are all selected.

Drag now the first frame of Your snow animation into the first frame of the tag animation.
Put it into the square part of the frame and just release the mouse button when its on the correct place
At this part You check if the animation runs correct.
If not, just pus the undo button and try again.

Go back to psp and activate the toplayer in your layerpalet.
--> Copy

Back to Animation shop, --> paste as new image.
--> Duplicate till you have again 10 frames.
Click Control A till all the frames are selected.

Also click control A with Your base animation where You added the snow.
Again drag the first frame of the top animation to the first frame of the base with snow animation.
The frame has to cover correctly so the snow is inside the frame.
Again check if the animation runs smoothly.

If not, just push the undo button and try again.

Otherwise You may save this tag as a .gif file.




 

If You have Your creation ready and its different from the preview, You may send it to me and I show it here:

 

 

 

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