- Winter 2022 - Original by Creannie Design

***Translation: January - 2022***

Thank you Annie for permission to translate your tutorials.

Translated by Chris (acbdesigns)

Tested by Celine

Materials:

Disclaimer: Each Graphic is the property of the original artist to whom the copyright belongs and may not be placed in a collection or offered for sale on-line or otherwise.

This translation is written with PSP 2020 Ultimate, if you work with older versions some things might be different but the result will be the same.

Acknowledgements:

Tubes by Pattyf56, Saturnella, and Cre@nnie Design

Plugins:

Jasc Animation Shop

[AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2

Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror

VanDerLee - Snowflakes

VM Natural - Lakeside Reflection & Splash

Preparations:

Place the Emboss 3 Preset into the Presets folder of PSP

Open all other files in PSP and minimize to tray

Colors:

Set your Foregroundcolor to #ecedf2
Set your Backgroundcolor to #649ac9

Note: When working with your own colors, adjust the Blend Mode/Opacity at your own discretion

If you are using different colors you may need to colorize some of the original elements

The Tutorial:

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01

Open a new Transparent image 650 X 500px

Fill the image with the Foreground colour

02

Selections - Select All

Open "sat-hiv07.png from tray

Erase the watermark

Edit - Copy

Minimize to tray for later

Edit - Paste - Paste Into Selection

Selections - Select None

03

Effects - Image Effects Seamless Tiling - Default settings

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 35

04

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Lakeside Reflection

Effects - Plugins - Simple Pizza Slice Mirror

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light and lower the Opacity to 50

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

05

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Foreground Colour

Selections - Invert

06

Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Splash

Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

Edit - Copy

07

Selections - Invert

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/75/30 Colour: #000000

08

Selections - Modify - Contract - 100px

Layers - New Raster Layer

Edit - Paste - Paste Into Selection

Selections - Select None

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/75/30 Colour: #000000

09

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Background Colour

Selections - Invert

10

Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2

Selections - Invert

11

Effects - Image Effects Seamless Tiling - Default settings

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/75/30 Colour: #000000

Selections - Select None

12

Effects - Image Effects Seamless Tiling - Horizontal

13

Effects - Geometric Effects - Skew

14

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal

Lower the Opacity of this Layer to 50

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

15

Effects - Image Effects Seamless Tiling

16

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill the Layer with the Foreground Colour

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - "NarahsMasks_1678"

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Layers - Duplicate

Change the Blend Mode of this Layer to Screen

17

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill the Layer with the Foreground Colour

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - "NarahsMasks_1669"

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Your work and Layer Palette should look like this now:

18

Open "winter.png" from tray

Erase the watermark

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Objects - Align Right

Change the Blend Mode to Luminance and lower the Opacity to 50

19

Effects - User Define - Emboss_3

20

Open "pattyf56_xmas_mist_023" from tray

Edit - Copy the Middle Layer

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Objects - Align Left

Objects - Align Bottom

Lower the Opacity of this Layer to 70

Effects - User Define - Emboss_3

21

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Background Colour

22

Effects - Image Effects Seamless Tiling - Default settings

Selections - Invert

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 35

23

Selections - Invert

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/75/30 Colour: #000000

Selections - Select None

24

Open "sat-hiv07.png from tray again

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Image - Resize - 70% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal

25

Pick Tool (K)

Enter these values for the X and Y: positions on the Toolbar

X: 594.00 Y: 15.00

Press M to close the Pick Tool

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/70/30 Colour: #000000

26

Open "tekst-winter2022.png" from tray

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Pick Tool (K)

Enter these values for the X and Y: positions on the Toolbar

X: 85.00 Y: 103.00

Press M to close the Pick Tool

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Effects 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/70/30 Colour: #000000

27

Image - Resize - 800px - Resize All Layers - Checked

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

28

Activate the Bottom Layer

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Snowflakes

Edit - Copy Merged

29

Open Jasc Animation Shop

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Animation

Go back to PSP

Edit Undo (To Remove the Snowflakes)

30

Staying on the Bottom Layer

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Snowflakes

Edit - Copy Merged

31

Go back to Animation shop

Click on the first image to make sure it is active

Edit - Paste - Paste After Current Frame

32

Go back to PSP

Edit Undo (To Remove the Snowflakes)

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Snowflakes

Edit - Copy - Copy Merged

33

Go Back to Animation Shop

Click on the second image to make sure it is active

Edit - Paste - Paste After Current Frame

Edit - View Animation

If all looks good

File - Save As - Name your work

Click on Next (3 times) Finish

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Extra Examples by Chris and Celine:

Celine: