·Christmas Presents·





This tutorial was written for those
that have a working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies Needed:
PSP X (any version will work)
Tube of your choice
I used artwork by Suzanne Woolcott. To use this artwork please visit HERE
Scrapkit by Kristi, called Winterbride
Font: Christmas Card

The scrapkit I used was called Winterbride by Kristi. It can be found HERE or HERE

Ok let's get started...

Open a canvas 600x600, transparent background, fill it with white.
Open and resize the book, paste as a new layer into your canvas,
open and resize the bubble, copy and paste as a new layer into your canvas,
move to the middle of the book, open a paper of your choice,
with your selection tool click outside the bubble, selection invert,
add a new layer, and fill with a paper of your choice, do not deselect,
open and resize the snow, copy and paste into your canvas as a new layer,
move down the bubble, invert the selection and hit delete in your keyboard, deselect.

Open and resize the tree, post into your canvas, also the tube, the sleigh, and the presents arrange them as you wish.
Add some sparkles, that came in the kit, and also any other embellishments of your choice.

Add a soft shadow to your layers. Add your copyright and your name.

Animation. Hide the presents, copy merge, open AS, paste as a new animation, back to psp,
resize the sparkles and with your selection tool set to freehand select one of your choice,
copy and paste the sparkle at the top of the tree, copy merge, go to AS, paste after current frame,
back to psp, duplicate the sparkle and move down, copy merge, in AS paste after current frame,
back to psp and duplicate the sparkle again follow the same steps, until you have your sparkles all over the tree,
when the tree is done, move one copy of the sparkles where the presents should be,
copy merge go to AS paste after current frame, in your psp,
delete the sparkle over the present unhide the first present,
copy merge, go to AS paste after current frame, in psp,
duplicate one sparkle and move where the second present should be, and unhide the present,
copy merge and paste in AS after current frame, do the same with the last present.
In AS, change the frame properties to the first frame to 50 and the last one to 150, save as a gif and you are done.


This Tutorial was written on 12-22-2008.
And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
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© Marcia 2008 Any Resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental. Proud Member of TWI