ChristmasElf

 

Christmas Elf

Artwork ©Nocturne

In order to use her art you must purchase a license and her tubes at PicsForDesign.com

This is a CT tutorial for

____________________________________

I used "Great Gift", a scrapkit from Hania

___________________________________

Font : Snacky Shack

Filters: Eye Candy / Drop Shadow

Xero / Porcelain

Muras Meister / Copies

Ulead Effects / Gif-X 2.0

The example was made with PSP X  and Jasc Animation Shop

_____________________________________________

I am not going to explane how to copy and paste, be creative or look at my tag for placement 😉

1.) Open a new raster layer 900x900 and fill with white

2.) Use a background and mask of your choice

3.) The frame I made from the hat that came with the tube / copy and paste the hat as new image

4.) Freehand Selection Tool /copy

5.) Open a new raster layer 900x900 and paste as new raster layer / you may need to resize it a bit

6.) Muras Meister / Copies

7.) Copy and paste as new raster layer to your tag

8.) Effects / Distortion Effects / Twirl

9.) Now place it to your liking

10.) Add elements and your tube

11.) To place the elements in that chest, you need again your Freehand Selection Tool

12,) Add drop show on those items and merge them

13.) Lower the opacity to 10% / Freehand Selection Tool

14.) Hit "DELETE" on your keybord / select none and put opacity back to 100%

15.) Type your text, mine was "Merry Christmas" / convert to raster layer

16.) Duplicate this layer and on the top one Effects / 3D Effects / Cutout

17.) Add drop shadow to your elements (no drop shadow at the gingerbread man) and tube

18.) Add your name, the artist copyright and your license

20.) Set background color to #86512f

21.) Highlight that gingerbread man

22.) Effects / Ulead Effects / Gif-X 2.0

23.) Save

24.) Click "Cancel" / hide the gingerbread man layer

25.) Edit / copy merged

26.) Paste as new animation to Animation Shop (AS)

27.) Duplicate this frame till you have 15 frames

28.) Open your gingerbread animation in AS / edit / select all / copy

29.) Highlight your tag / edit / select all / paste into selected frame

30.) View animation and save as ....gif 😉

~~~~DONE~~~~