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Ho Ho Ho
Tutorial written by and © to Bits N Bobs 3rd December 2010.
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Supplies needed.
Font of choice for your name and text.
I am using Agatha Regular
Tube of  choice.
I am using Dressed for Santa from MyTubedArt
Tubes are not to be used without an MTA license
Mask of choice.
I am using Vix_Mask435 which you can download here
Scrap kit Ho Ho Ho by Bits N Bobs
Scraps I am using from this kit are
Paper 9,  Elements 31, 33, 17 and  9
Plug ins used
AAA Photo frame
Penta.com / Dots and cross - Garbage collection
Eye Candy 5 nature / Fire ( only needed for the animation )

Note
This tutorial was written in PSP 9
Open all supplies in paintshop except the font.
Double click on your font and minimize.

1.Re-size your paper to 300 pixels wide,
Layers/ promote background layer,
Layers/ New mask layer/ from image,
Find your mask image,
Source luminance tabbed, Invert mask data untabbed.
Ok.
Layers/ merge group, Layers/ duplicate layer, Merge/ Merge visible.

2.Re-size Element 17 to 200 pixels wide
Copy, paste onto your image as a new layer,
Add a drop shadow of choice.
I am using V3, H3, O100, B9, #000000

3.Re-size Element 31 to 350 pixels high,
Copy, paste onto your image as a new layer,
Position to your liking.
Add a drop shadow of choice.

4.Re-size Element 33 to 400 pixels wide,
Copy, paste onto your image as a new layer,
Add a drop shadow of choice.

5.Re-size Element 9 to 250 pixels high
Copy, paste onto your image as a new layer,
Add a drop shadow of choice.

6.Re-size your tube to 400 pixels high,
copy and paste as a new layer.
Position to your liking.
Add a drop shadow of choice.

7.Add all copyright info.

8.Activate your candle layer.
Using your freehand selection tool and the following settings
draw a flame shape something similar to the image below.


Layers/new raster layer,  name it flame 1, flood fill with a flame colour of your choosing.
I am using #f3c045.

9.Crop tool, merged opaque ( image below ) then crop


10.Layers/ new raster layer,
flood fill with a colour of choice,
I am using #5e8b17.
Layers/ arrange/ send to bottom.
Effects/ 3D effects/ Penta.com/ Dot and cross
Amount: 72, Distance: 10, Width: 2

11.Effects/ 3D effects/ AAA foto frame settings as below.



Repeat effect but change the width to 20

PLEASE NOTE: Save your tag now if you do not wish continue with the animation

12.Duplicate your flame layer and re name it flame 2,
duplicate flame 2 layer and re name it flame 3.
Close flame 2 and flame 3 layers and activate flame 1 layer.
Effects/ 3D plugins/ Eye Candy 5 Nature/ Fire
Settings to your liking or mine as below

Open and activate flame 2 layer
Effects/ 3D plugins/ Eye Candy 5 Nature/ Fire
Same settings as before but hit random seed once.
Open and activate flame 3 layer
Effects/ 3D plugins/ Eye Candy 5 Nature/ Fire
Same settings as before but hit random seed once.
Selections/ select none.

13.Close frame layers 2 and 3.
Edit/ copy merged.
Open up animation shop,
paste as a new animation.
Go back to psp close flame layer 1 and open flame layer 2.
Edit/ copy merged.
Back to animation shop,
paste after current frame.
Go back to psp, close flame layer 2 and open flmae layer 3.
Back to animation shop,
paste after current animation.
View/ animation then file/save as.

14.Create your name in paintshop as normal, copy the file and paste as a new animation into animation shop.
Copy the name in animation shop, activate your animation, edit/ select all, edit/ paste into selected frame and then file/save as.