Blinking Christmas Tree

Blinking

Christmas Tree

Material

Open the PNG picture of Christmas Tree

Duplicate the picture twice

Now you have 3 Christmas Tree pictures

Minimize the 2nd and 3rd picture

We will work on first picture

Layers – New Raster Layer

Layers – Arrange – Send to Bottom

Paint with color Black (#000000)

or the color of tour choice

(Do not work on transparent picture. It will not save

properly in Animation Shop)

Select top layer

Effects – Plug-in Filters – KPT 6 – KPT Lens Flare

Set the Filter like this

With the mouse drag the light above this ball

Click on √ sign

Do it in all the balls shown in the Picture 1

Then Picture 2 and Picture 3

Do not change the filter settings

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Open Picture 1 again

Effects – Plug-in Filters – Plugin Galaxy – Star

Use this setting

Right click in the position you want to set the Star

Do it like shown in the picture 1, 2 and 3

We are done

Open 1st Picture

Edit – Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop

Edit – Paste – As New Animation

Open 2nd Picture

Go to Animation Shop

Edit – Paste – After Current Frame

Open 3rd Picture

Go to Animation Shop

Edit – Paste – After Current Frame

File – Save As

Save as GIF picture

If you do not know how to save

See my first tutorial “Animation Tutorial”

in the left hand side

If you do not have KPT 6 and Plugin Galaxy filters

Use Paint Brush

This one for KPT 6

And this one for Plugin Galaxy

These are in built brushes in Paintshop Pro