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The Brightest Star

Being the Christmas season I thought this might be a nice little tut

Please note on the frame is Wallis'sİ, do not take this off.

Please visit her site

I will enclose my picture but you can use your own, the crossblinkie for the star.

Written by

İDorothy/Dec/2008

Frame by Wallis

Let's begin

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Supplies

Open your template in PSP, any PSP is fine, I still am using PSP7, old habits die hard

The first thing is to use your freehand lasso tool....lasso all around the snow on the xmas tree that you want to sparkle.........in PSP7 just hold down the shift key until you have circled all you want to sparkle, right click to select all....now go to ...edit...copy...edit...paste as new image.....you now have all your snow that you want to sparkle.....save this to a folder ....we will add the sparkle later...

This is what you will have,with no yellow showing, I just saved it wrong

Before we go further, if you want to surround your lights and make them glow now would be a good time, I didn't make mine glow as it would have made too much animation

On your template....Close off all the snow layers and open the background layer..with your lasso tool... lasso around the frame and the xmas trees like so

Go to selections....load to alpha channel and name it frame

Add a new layer and name it text...add whatever text you wish and keep that layer open at all times

Remember when you "load from alpha chanel" make sure you are on the snow layer

Make sure your text layer...picture layer and background layer are open at all times....select none

1)Open s1 layer and ...selections...load from alpha chanel... hit delete..select none....edit>...copy>merge...Open animation shop...right click in animation shop and paste as new animation...go back to PSP

2)Close off s1...open s2....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none.......edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame....go back to PSP

3)Close off s2...open s3....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame....go back to PSP

4)Close off s3...open s4....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

5)Close off s4...open s5....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit...copy>merge.. in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

6)Close off s5...open s6...selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

7)Close off s6...open s7....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none....edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

8)Close off s7...open s8....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

9)Close off s8...open s9....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

10)Close off s9...open s10....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

11)Close off s10...open s11....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

12)Close off s11...open s12....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

13)Close off s12...open s13....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

14)Close off s13...open s14....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame....go back to PSP

15)Close off s14...open s15....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>copy>merge... in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

16)Close off s15...open s16....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

17)Close off s16...open s17....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>...copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

18)Close off s17...open s18....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

19)Close off s18...open s19....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame...go back to PSP

20)Close off s19...open s20....selections...load from alpha chanel....hit delete...select none...edit>..copy>merge...in animation shop right click on last frame and paste after current frame

Now open animation shop and bring in your snow tree that we saved.. go to "effect"..insert image effects and in the drop down box click on ...noise....click OK...go to the first frame and delete it

You should have 20 frames....make the snow tree active and click on edit>select all...edit>copy, now click on your back ground pic you and go to edit>select all...edit>paste into selected frames and place your tree exactly on top of the tree in your picture...

Now the star...open your star in animation shop....make it the active one... click on edit> select all....edit>copy... now go to your picture and click on edit> select all....edit...paste into selected frames....Place the star right on top of the star in the picture

There you go now all you have to do is enjoy it

I hope you enjoyed this tut and thanks for doing it

Merry Christmas

.....Dorothy.......

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