Making
Snow Globes
By
now you should have an idea of the size of
PSP and all of the things that are
available to you. If you aren't sure
of anything in PSP and you haven't
already, take a look at this
tutorial for an overview of everything
that is available in the programme.
I
wrote this tutorial at the request of one
of the people who emailed me from my
personal site - thank you Linda! It
shows you how to make a snowglobe using
tubes. I'm not going to animate mine
'cos I'm not very good at animations, but
I'll include some "snow" in the
zip file so you can have a go at animating
it if you'd like to :o)
You
should end up with something that looks
similar to this:
You
will need:
A
copy of PaintShop Pro - you can download
a 30 day trial version from here
This
zip file - I've downloaded these tubes
from various sites... if one of these
tubes are yours and you'd like me to give
you credit or take it out of the zip file,
just let me know! :o)
Fire
up PSP and wait for it to chug and whir
into action
Now
open up a new image, using the following
settings:
Width:
500
Height: 500
Resolution: 72.000
Background Colour: Transparent
Image Type: 16.7 Million Colours
Now
add a single, solid colour to the
background
Now
would be a good time to save your
snowglobe... I know it doesn't look like
much right now, but it's better to save
every few steps in case something
happens and you loose all your work -
it's better to only loose a few steps
than to have to start from the beginning
all over again! :o)
Open
up your dolphin tube (or whichever tube
you want to be in the middle of your
snowglobe) and copy it (Ctrl + C)
Now
go back to your background and paste the
dolphin tube as a new layer (Ctrl + L)
Now
open up your snow globe base tube, copy
(Ctrl + C) and paste it as a new layer
(Ctrl + L) on the background image
Open
up your globe tube, copy (Ctrl + C) and
paste it as a new layer (Ctrl + L) on the
background image
I
know it looks a bit of a mess right now,
but bear with me!! :o)
Save
your work again now - make sure you save
it as a .psp file
