Tutorial written by ©charlieonline graphics

I write this tutorial also en PSP.......HERE

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Written using PS CS5

but may be done with other versions.

Some basic PS knowledge is needed for this tutorial.

Tubes made by  Gini, MC, JB(Judy) and CherSwitz

Copyright belongs to them.

Note: I transformed all tubes in png format for using them in Photoshop

Some of them are also snowed by me in PS and its tool and Plugins

This page's tile is ©charlieonline graphics

You can find other Tiles or Textures..... HERE

Use the arrow to mark your place while you do the tutorial.



If you like to print it click below:

Let's begin!

1 - Open a new transparent canvas 980w x 760h 

Rename as Sky

2 - At the bottom of the Layer Palette click the 'Create New Layer' button

and rename as sun

Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool

match your setting as mine

and draw out a selection like this

Change the foreground to #d7d18b

and background to #f3edbb

Filter - Render Clouds

Your image should look like this

Select - Deselect

3 - Create a New Layer

and rename as basicsnow

Change your foreground to white

Open the Polygonal Lasso Tool

and draw out a selection like this

Scroll through the brush tip previews

and find the Large Snow Underline brush tip

Click to select it

Keep the same settings

Move your brush onto your selection

use the finish work as example

and brush your canvas till to have something similar to this

Note: For the basicsnow you can use also

 Filter - EyeCandy4/Jiggle

In this case flood fill your selection with White colour

Deselect

and apply the plugin settings as follow

Edit - Transform - Scale

Change W: and H: to 105%

with the Move tool move the white image

and using the Polygonal Lasso tool  delete all the surplus

as in the follow image

When you have erased what is superfluous

deselect and replace the basicsnow in the right position

Go ahead!

4 - Create a New Layer

and rename as snow

Select your brush tip previews again

and find the Light Snow brush tip

Click to select it

Keep the same settings

Move your brush onto your canvas

and brush  it till to have something similar to this

Layer - Merge visible

This will be your working canvas!

Now we go to add all the elements attached to the supplies

5 - Open the ChristmasScene_MistedByGini.png

Erase Gini watermark and

with your Move Tool drag it on your working design

and place it on the left of the sun,

like the finished work.

6 - *Filter - AlienSkin EyeCandy 5-Nature/SnowDrift - Small, First Flakes

with default settings*

Note: If you don't have this Filter, attached to my supplies

there are all the snowed  and resized images in a file named

7 - Open the cc_NorthPoleMan.png

with your Move Tool drag it on your working design

Edit - Transform - Scale

change width and height(W: and H:) to 80

place it above the mail box of the XmasScene,

just to wrap it up,

use as example the finished work.

Repeat  step 6

or use my snowed and resized one from

8 - Open the CherSwitz_SnowmanTiredTopper.png,

Image - Image Size

Resize at 40%

With your Move Tool drag it on your working design

Place it at the front of cc_NorthPoleMan

as the finished work.

Open the CherSwitz~doyouseewhatisee2.png

Image - Image Size

Resize at 50%

With your Move Tool drag it on your working design

And place it on the left of the snowman

as the finished work.

That is what you have had till now:

Open all the trees in the file

With your Move Tool drag each one on your working design

Use finished as example to place them

Note: Unfortunately I don't remember where I downloaded these trees,

but all rights © and property are acknowledged to their owners,

and I not claim any right over them.)

9 - Open the JB_tiny Santa.psp and the gift_tutorial-snowed

With your Move Tool drag and place it on your working design

as finished work.

Open the MC_Love Christmas-Holly&Stars_10-06~pjs-snowed

With your Move Tool drag and place it on your working design

as finished work.

Put all the other elements in the right position

and apply the Snow Drift plugin if you don't use my snowed elements

Now

Put your name or watermark

Add a little border if you like

Open again the Light Snow brush tip

change Size to 298 px

or other of your choise

and add some brush on your design till to have something similar to this

Merge all the layer

Now if you like you can use it so or animate it with a little snow

In this case......go ahead

10 - Open ch-snowanimation2.gif

Image - Duplicate

Close the original

Note: The ch-snowanimation2.gif  file

consit of 10 layers snowed and it is already prepared from me

to use it on PS animation, for an image sizes  W:437px x H:322 px

so you have to resize your image to these settings

Image - Image Size

Width: 437px and Height: 322px

Deselect Constrain Proportion

Note: In the supplies I added also a big animation gif sized: 760x600 px

named  ch-snow760x600.gif  if you like to use it in a big one.

Layer - Arrange - Send to back

you have to had this one

Click the play animation button and watch how the animation played

For me it's ok

Otherwise you can expand the 0,1 sec button in the bottom panel

and select 0.2 sec or other time from the fly-out menu.

Change the delay time of each frame at your wish

Note: Some people have written me this tutorial doesn't work with CS3,

in this case you can follow the explanation

of this other tutorial I wrote for basic animation.

*~*~Tut-PS-CreateAnimation.htm*~*~

Following the explanations of this basic animation tutorial,

 you have to make 10 frames playing

with the Layer Palette and the Animation Panel

When you are satisfied with the result,

and all has been set up,

close the Animation Panel!

It's time to save the image!

Go up to

File - Save for Web & Devices

with Default settings

and save the image!

Save a copy in .psd format too , it might serve you for another time

Done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

If you have questions or need clarification

post a message to my Contacts.

A special thank to my good friend "Laurie"

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