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