1. Choose a foreground
color and a background color from your tube.
(my foreground color is #98a5b1
- my background color is #e9f0ff)
Open the tube Magicofwinter_Arbeitsbild.
Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 1 - click Load.
Flood fill the
selection with your foreground color.
Don't deselect!
2. Copy the tube
"SS_791_Misted".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Selections - Invert -
click on your delete button.
Selections - Invert.
Set the Opacity of this
layer to 15 - Blend mode to Luminance (L).
Effects - Plugins - FM
Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.
3. Layers - New raster
layer.
Set your background to
Texture Background-020 - with these settings:

Flood fill this layer
with the Texture.
Effects - Edge effects
- Enhance.
Set the Opacity of this
layer to 50 - select none.
4. Copy the tube "rain".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Image - Resize - 40% -
All layers NOT checked.
(if you want the rain
go slanting: Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 40)
Set the Opacity of this
layer to 40.
Effects - Plugins
- Xero - Clarity - with these settings:

Image - Rotate - Free
rotate - with these settings:

Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 1 - click Load.
Selections - Invert -
click on your delete button - select none.
5. Layers - New raster
layer.
Set your background to
gradient (Texture NOT checked) - with these settings:

Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 2.
Flood fill with your
foreground color.
Selections - Modify -
Contract - 2 pixels.
Flood fill with your
gradient - select none.
Layers - New raster
layer.
6. Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 3.
Flood fill with your
foreground color.
Selections - Modify -
Contract - 2 pixels.
Flood fill with your
background color.
Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.
Flood fill with your foreground color.
Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.
Flood fill with the
following gradient:

7. Copy the tube
"KaraT3681".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Image - Resize - 65%.
Selections - Invert -
click on your delete button.
Selections - Select
none.
Layers - Merge - Merge
down.
Layers - Load/save mask
- Load mask from disk - find mask "20~20" - with these
settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge
group.
8. If you don't want to
make the animation, proceed to step 9.
Layers - New raster
layer.
Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 3.
Flood fill the
selection with your foreground color.
Selections - Modify -
Contract - 3 pixels.
Click you your delete
button - select none.
Rename this layer "Ani".
9. Coy the tube
"tube67_tbT_winter_etaner".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Place it in the right
corner of your background layer - see image above this
lesson.
Copy the tube
"models37022-tube-colombe".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Image - Resize - 80%.
Place her on the left
site.
10. Layers - New raster
layer.
Selections - Load/save
selection - Load selections from Alpha channel -
Selection 1 - click Load.
Selections - Invert -
flood fill with your foreground color.
Selections - Modify -
Contract - 1 pixel.
Flood fill with your
background color.
Selections - Invert.
Effects - 3D Effects -
Cutout - with these settings:

Selections - Select
none.
Kopieer de tube "Dat22".
Past as a new layer on
your working image.
Add your watermark or
name and your crea is ready to start the animation.
Animation
Activate the layer "Ani".
Effects -
Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex - Constellation - with
these settings:

Click OK -
save this image as 1.jpg in a folder of your choise, so
you can easily find it back.
Edit -
Undo.
Effects -
Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex - Constellation - click 1x
on Random Seed.
Save as 2.jpg.
Edit - Undo.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex
- Constellation - click 1x on Random Seed..
Open
Animation Shop.
File - Wizard Animation.
You see
the following screen - click Next 3x:

Untill you
arrive at this screen - enter the number 10:

Now your
see the screen below.
Click
Add image - Look for your 3 pictures - if all 3 are in
the screen:

Click
Next - click Finish.
View -
Animation.
Now you
can see how your crea looks like.
If you
like it, click File - Save as - place it in a folder of
your choise.
I hope you had fun
making this tutorial :-)

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© by Daty Januar 2010
Translated by Zial on
December 11, 2010