New Year e-card

New Year e-card



Collect a JPEG picture of mountain
Edit - Copy
Open a new document in PSP 670 x 430 transparent
Selections – Select All
Edit – Paste – Paste into Selection
Pick Freehand Selection Tool – Point to Point
Select this portion carefully


Selections – Promote Selection to layer
Selections – Select None
Rename this Layer Sky 1
Duplicate this layer & rename Sky 2
Close these 2 layers
Select the top layer
Layers – New Raster Layer
Write 201 with a Gradient of your choice

Rename the Layer ‘201’


Layers – New Raster Layer
Write 5 with same font, size & gradient
Place it after 201 so that it looks like 2015
Rename this layer ‘5’
Duplicate the layer several times
Duplicate from original
Do not duplicate from duplicate
Select the first layer of 5
Image – rotate – Free Rotate – Right 20
With Raster Deform Tool move it
To the right and below a little


Select the second layer of 5
Again rotate Right, this time 40
Like this select 3rd, 4th, 5th …… layers
Rotate right, each layer add 20
Such as 60, 80, 100, 120 …….
Until it looks like 5 is disappearing below


Close all the layers except the layer 201 & background
Layers – New Raster Layer
Write 6 with same font, size & gradient
Place it after 201 so that it looks like 2016
Rename this layer ‘6’
Select the top layer
Layers – New Raster Layer
Write Happy New Year
Font, color & size is your choice
If you want to do like me
Dose it like this


I used Almonte Snow font, available at dafont.com


Select Magic Wand Tool
Tolerance & Feather 0
Click on the first gap in H
Then press ‘Shift’ and click all the gaps
Keep the selections


Layers – New Raster Layer
Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Select this blank layer
Foreground color white (FFFFFF)
With Flood Fill Tool Paint the inside


Selections – Select None
Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Select Sky 1 layer
Click in the little arrow in the right side of layer
Change Sky 1 to Soft Light and
Sly 2 to Difference
It will make the sky black


Now Animation

Open background, layer 201, layer 5, Sky 1 and Sky 2
Open & close duplicates of layer 5, one by one
Edit – Copy Merged
Paste in Animation Shop – After Current Frame
When 5 disappear, open layer 6

Now you have to work both layer 5 & sky 2
at the same time
Right click on Sky 2 layer – Properties

Change it to 95


Right click on layer 6 – Properties
Change it to 5
Edit - Copy Merged
Paste in Animation Shop – After Current Frame

Like this decrees the Sky 2 layer by 5 each time
Like 95, 90, 85 …. 10, 5, 0
At the same time increase Layer 6 by 5 each time
Like 5, 10, 15 …. 90, 95 100
Always, Edit - Copy Merged
Paste in Animation Shop – After Current Frame
When Sky 2 and layer 6 reaches
0 and 100 simultaneously
Open Text Layer

Timing

All frames of layer 5 – 10
After that all frames – 150
Last frame (text) - 500

2 comments:

  1. This tutorial is awesome!!!I'll try it at Home,nd send it to my friends...pls tell me which version of photoshop u've used,CS5 or CS6???

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    1. CS4 is enough. You can do it in Photoshop.
      But here it is done in Paintshop Pro 9 and Animation Shop.
      If you want I'll tell you how to do it in Photoshop.
      And thank you.

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