Winterwonderland Frame
(PSP 7 & 8)
A tutorial by Mar © 2004.

What you need:
PSP 8. Download a 30 day trial here.
Silver pattern, an image and the font: Download here.
Texture filter download here.
Extract to your plugins folder in PSP.
Close and open PSP to make your filter work.

Save often.
Let's go and Good luck.....

Background color to pattern and find MD-Silver.jpg.
Foreground color to #1E497A or use to pick a color from your image.

Open a new image 350 X 350, transparent.
Fill with your foreground color.

Effects > Plugins > Texture > Texturizer.

Open the  font and minimize it.
You see it in your text menu.
Click in the middle of your image and use Frames and Headers (in  ZIP).
B of Bold > Size 150 > Stroke 0,0 > Anti-alias checked.

Type the letter o.

With  resize.
Leave a small part free on all sides.

Convert to raster.

Cut your silver frame and paste as a new layer.
Now you know for sure your frame is in the middle.

Edit > Paste as a new image.
Put aside for now (minimize), you'll need it later.

Lock your background layer of your original image.
Make sure you're on the top layer (=blue).

Merge visible layers.

Open your background layer and activate your bottom layer (blue).

Open your winter image or use the one in the zip.

Use selection tool .
Circle. Feather 10. Tolerance 25. Anti-alias checked.

Draw a circle in the middle of your frame.

With and right mouse button you can move the selection.

Open your image.
Draw a circle over the part you like to use.
Copy.

Go back to your frame.

New raster layer.

Edit > Paste > Paste into selection.

Activate your top layer.

Effects > 3-D effects > Drop shadow.

Merge all layers.
Image > Add borders > 5 Pixels > Symmetric > White.

Select (feather 0) the white border.

Fill with silver pattern.

Effects > 3-D effects > Same drop shadow.
Repeat but change Horiz. and Vert. to - 2.

Add borders > 25 Pixels > Symmetric > White.

Selections > All.
Selections > Modify > Contract 25 pixels.
Selections > Invert.

Fill selection with the foreground color .

Repeat Texturizer effect.

Effects > Reflection-effects > Kaleidoscope.

Apply.

Add borders > 5 Pixels > Symmetric > White.

Selections > All.
Selections > Modify > Contract 5 pixels.
Selections > Invert.

Fill the selection with silver pattern.

Repeat the drop shadow 2 and - 2 as before.

Open the silver frame you did minimize and copy.

Go back to your Winterwonderland frame.

Paste as a new layer.

Because you did cut and paste before the middle part will match exactly.

Selections > All.
Selections > Float.

Selections > Selection load/save > Save to disc.

Name it. I named it glitter.

Selections > None.

Layers > Delete.
You have only your background layer left now.

Selections > Load from disc.

Hit 3 times Shift-D to make 3 copies.

Image 1:
Adjust > Add noise/.... > Add noise.

Save as winter-1.psp.

Image  2:
Adjust  >Add noise . Noise to 25.
Save as winter-2.psp.

Image  3:
Adjust > Add noise. Noise to 30.
Save as winter-3.psp.

Image  4:
Add noise. Set to 35.
Save as winter-4.psp.

If you like a smaller grain, use 10-15-20 en 25.

To animate see this tutorial...... at the bottom.
You'll find how to animate your winterwonderland frame
 when you start at the screenshot of Animation Shop 3.06.
My frame property is set to 10 seconds per frame.

You don't have to adjust anything because you have no transparency.

Important is the order of your images.
Winter-1.psp on top and winter-4.psp as your last image.

Your  Winterwonderland Frame is done.
I hope you like it?
Thanks for doing my tutorials.

Translation into English with help of my best friends, Trudie.
Thanks sweetie! Couldn't do it without you.

Since 11-05-2004: