This tutorial is for those who have working knowledge with Paint Shop Pro & Jasc Animation Shop.

The animation in this tut is for advanced users and this tutorial can be very difficult if you are new to paint shop.

*Scrap: this tutorial used Dianne’s “Winter Solstice” kit.

Visit Dianne’s Blog, to shop with her stores and see more of her creations here: Digicats (& Dogs).

*Tube: by artist Vinegar: Fingerprints.  

This is a paid for tube and requires a license to use. You can purchase here: HERE

*Mask: Becky_Mask021 by Becky of Secrets of the Imagination. Site is closed. You can snag the mask in my supplies HERE

*IMAGE PHOTO: Snowy Picture you can snag at JTS Designs it’s called:

JTD_WinterShot and can be snagged at her site: HERE

Please show a little love when snagging!

*Font: Cocktail Script. I could not find this exact font for you to use, but there are few close ones HERE:

*Plug In: VanDerLee (snow effect) a PTU Filter.

Please SAVE often!!

Let’s get started

Open up your supplies and save your mask to your mask folder, usually in your C Drive/Programs/Corel/ Corel Paint Shop Pro X/masks.

Now, open an 850x850 transparent canvas in Corel. Flood fill white. *We will resize later.

Open up your scrap kit Winter Solstice and have ready. Create a new layer and flood fill with color code:#a6b29.

Now apply the Beck_Mask021 with these settings:

Now go to your layers on the right hand of the screen and Right Click and Merge Group.

Copy and paste a frame of choice from the kit. I used: DCD_Square Frame01. Top toolbar-Image-Free Rotate-15 Degrees to the Left.

Copy and paste another frame of choice from the kit. I used: DCD_Square Frame06. Top toolbar-Image-Free Rotate-15 Degrees to the Right.  Make sure this frame layer is at the top.

Open your WinterShot (Snowy Trees Photo) and resize by 15%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Duplicate twice. Free rotate each one just like the frames. Make sure you drag this photo underneath each frame layer. Use your pick tool to bring in so none of the pictures are showing. See mine to reference.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Make sure this layer is at the very top of all your layers. Free rotate to the right 15 degrees. Use your pick tool to position just right so her hand is resting on the frame. Duplicate the layer. Drag one layer beneath your top layer of your frame but above your photo. Now click on the top layer to make active. Use your free hand selection tool, (usually hidden underneath your pick tool) and select around the bottom of the tube area that is sticking out on top of the frame. Hit delete on your keyboard. Top toolbar-Selections-Select None.

Now add any other elements from the kit you would like. I used:

DCD_Tree with snow 3-I moved this to the left of the taggie. See mine to reference.

DCD_Winter Bells01-Resized by 35% and placed at the corner of your main top frame. Add any drop shadows you prefer.

If you would like to add my half transparent word art “Winter Solstice” to the taggie, make sure you copy and paste it just above your mask layer. So it shows like mine.

Add your name to the bottom. I used font Cocktail Script, Size 20-Foreground Null (Transparent)-Background Black. Convert to a Raster and add a drop shadow.

Now add any copyrights and watermarks.

Save as a JPG with the white background, or hide your white background and save as a PNG. (Transparent Background).

Leave Corel open with your taggie ready and open up your Jasc Animation Shop.

Make sure to have your white background main layer unhidden for this.

Click the top main snowy trees image; Duplicate 3 times, so you have a total of 4 images.

Hide your main image and name the others 1, 2 and 3.

Click on 1 to make active. Top toolbar-Effects-VanDerLee-Snowflakes with these settings:

Now click on 2 to make active, apply the same settings but hit random seed once.

Now click on 3 to make active, apply the same settings but hit random seed once more.

Now hide 2 and 3 for now leaving 1 of this snow effect visible.

Next animation step (we will come back to the other)

Click on the top main tube layer. Duplicate 3 times for a total of 4 tube images.

Hide the main tube image, and label the others 1, 2 and 3. Click on 1 to make active.

Use your free hand selection tool, with point to point checked, go around the whisps of her hair that you would think wind would blow, usually the edges, like my example below:

Hold the shift key down as select the pieces so that you can do them all at the same time. If it looks bad stop and hit undo (back arrow at the top). Make sure not to get too big of chunks of hair while you are doing it, the smaller thin whisps looks better.

Once happy with the selections, go to the Top Toolbar-Effects-Distortion Effects-Pinch-Strength 23. (Do not deselect yet). Click on 2 to make active, apply the same effects except change the strength to 35, and then click 3 to make active and apply the same effects but change the strength to 53. Now you can deselect. Top toolbar-Selections-Select None.

Hide all of these tube layers but 1. (Now you have both of your effect layers Snowy Trees and Tube Layer 1’s showing with the rest of the animated layers hidden.

Everything else on your taggie should be visible as well.

Right Click, Copy Merged and Paste as a new layer into Jasc.

Go Back to Paint Shop Pro. Hide layer 1 and unhide layer 2 for both the tube layer and the snowy tree layer. So now you have both 2’s of both images unhidden and both 1’s of both images hidden.

Right Click, Copy Merged and Paste as after the current layer into Jasc.

Go back to Paint Shop Pro and do the same thing with the 2’s (hide them) and unhide the 3’s.

Right Click, Copy Merged and making sure the last layer is selected in Jasc,

Paste after the current layer so it will be the last layer.

Now top tool bar in Jasc-Edit-Select All.

Now top tool bar in Jasc again, Animation-Frame Properties-25.

View-Animation, to see the animation. If you’re happy then save. Resize at this point.

*To Resize, Top Toolbar-Animation-Resize with Pixels-600x600 or for my blog 430x430, with maintain aspect ratio checkbox checked.

Save and you are done!!

Thank you for trying my tutorial!

I would love to see your results and are displaying them on my tutorial page.

If you would like to share your creation from this tutorial,

You can email them here: jessicawoods1@yahoo.com