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HIVER 2

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary - better known as valyscrappassion.com
You can find the original here.

Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name or take off the watermarks, to present them on your sites or blogs,  to share them in groups,
to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Valérie’s work and other creators' work
mentioned in the original tutorial. Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

 This tutorial was made by Valérie on December 6, 2016, with PSPX9.
I used PSP9 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

 

Preparation
Decompress the zip file, make duplicate copies of the originals. Never work on the originals. Once you have made a duplicate of the alpha channel file, save it in a PSPimage format so that you can save your work with its multilayers later on. Save often, to avoid loss of time and efforts in case of a PSP crash of some sort. Save the selection in your My PSP files Selections folder.

Plugins
Alien Skin Xenofex 2  - Constellation
Carolaine and Sensibility  - CS-LDots
Mehdi  - Wavy Lab 1.1
In Filters Unlimited:
VM Distortion  - Tilomat 2000
VM Toolbox  - Dynamic Diffusion

Colors
Color 1 #e5e5e7
Color 2 #808080
Color 3 #8bae09
Color 4 #ffffff

Let's begin!!

1
Open Layer Alpha-Winter-VSP
Window - Duplicate and work on this duplicate. Close the original
Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1

Effects - Image Effects - Default Seamless Mosaic

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - <ICNET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 -
VM Distortion - Tilomat 2000 with these settings:

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

2
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with color 2 #808080
Layers - New Mask Layer - From image and select 'masker39-mpd©designs'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
Image - Mirror

3
Activate the bottom layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection#1

Selections - Promote selection to layer 
Effects - Plugins - <ICNET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Toolbox - Dynamic Diffusion

 
Selections - Select None
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 50 / 50 / 75 with color black

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / -50 / 50 / 75 with color black 

4
Activate the bottom layer 
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection#2

Layers - New Raster Layer 
Flood fill with the following halo gradient

Note from the translator: For some reason, when I compare the screenshot images from the original tutorial and my image in PSP, for gradients, I have to check 'Invert' instead of as prescribed in the original  to obtain the expected result. I made the screenshot like I made my image but it is for you to select to check 'Invert' or not in order to obtain the result that you want. See original.

 Keep selection active 

5
 Activate the image 'mistedVSP'
Edit - Copy and Activate the top layer 
Edit - Paste as a new layer 
Activate the Move tool
Place the misted landscape on the left like this:


Selections - Invert
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors
Selections - Select None
Layers Arrange - Move down
Repeat Layers Arrange - Move down a second time
Layers - Properties - Opacity to 75
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Your layers palette looks like this:

6
Activate the top layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection#3


Layers - New Raster Layer 
Flood fill with color 2 #808080
Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-LDots

Layers - New Raster Layer 
Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 
Flood fill with color 3 #8bae09
Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 again 
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors
Selections - Select None 
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layer Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 0 / 75 / 25 with black 

7
Activate 'deco1-VSP' tube 
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image 
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

8
Activate the 'deco2-VSP' tube
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Effects - Image Effects - Offset 

9
Activate the Title 'Winter-VSP' tube
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Place at the top left as in the final image 
Layers - Duplicate 
Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind

Layers - Reorder - Move down 
Activate the top layer
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Your layers palette looks like this:

10
Activate raster layer 3 (4th from the top)

Layers - New raster layer 
Flood fill with color 4 #ffffff
Layers - New mask layer - From image and select mask 'masker34 mpd©'
 Layers - Merge - Merge group 
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance 
Selections - Load/Save selection from alpha channel and select selection#2 again
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors 
Selections - Select none 

11
Image - Canvas size with these settings

Layers  - New raster layer 
Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom 
Flood fill with color 1 #e5e5e7
Layers - New raster layer 
Selections - Select all 
Selections - Modify - Contract by 24 
Flood fill with color 3  #8bae09
Selections - Select none 

12
 Activate tube 'C.Evers_woman_66'
Take the visibility out for the watermark and the background color
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
Image - Resize to 91% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image effects - Offset

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen 
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 50 / 50 / 75 with black

13
Layers - New raster layer
Sign your image and if you don't want to go on with the Animation Shop process, you can add borders and finish your image as you like.
 You are done if you plan to terminate your image at this point but,
if you want to go further into an animated result,
but if you want to try to make an animation
with this gorgeous image, proceed as follows

 14
Activate landscape layer (4th from bottom)

Selections - Load/Save selection from the disk Select-Hiver-VSP
(in the Materials, saved in your My PSP Files under Selections)

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation with these settings:

Selections - Select none
Edit - Copy special - Copy merge

Work in Animation Shop
Open your Animation Shop program
Edit - Paste as new animation

15
Return to your PSP
   Undo last command twice
(this will bring back your image without the first Constellation effect)
Now:  Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation and for the settings, 
they stay the same except for Random Seed - click on Random Seed to obtain a different number then OK

Selections - Select nothing 
Edit - Special copy - Copy with merge 
Return to your animation shop 
Edit - Paste after active image 
(this is your 2nd Constellation effect)

16
Still in your Animation Shop 
Edit - Select all

Animation - Frame Properties
In the window that opens, select between 18 to 25 to your liking
Animation - Resize animation
While all your frames are still selected, open your watermark png image,
place your animation at frame 1 and paste it your watermark in all selected frames exactly where you want to see it

17
Save as a gif
 That's it, we are done.

Thank you very much for your achievement. If you wish to do so, you can send your result to Valérie here and I know that she will add it in her gallery with pleasure!!

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