| Title: Make it snow inside a font or object | |
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Date Posted：07/08/2017 14:56 PMCopy HTML  Making it snow inside a font or object To make it snow inside a font or object is easier than it looks, one thing that you have to know about using most filters, they won't work with a vector layer, you always have to have it in raster layer. That being said that is the hardest part of remembering about how to make it snow inside an font or object. So let's make it snow... First you need the filter VDL Adrenilin and you can get a free copy of it HERE **Note: This is an 8bf filter that is in a zip file. Here is a site where you can get a few different shaped globes instead of just the typical round ones, and they have bases too.... HERE or you can google for some different ones, there are a lot out there. 1. Bring up your globe tube make a duplicate (Shift+d) and put the original away. Do the same with your base tube. Add the base tube to your globe tube and position it where you want it. 2. In your layer palette make 5 copies of your globe. You should now have six layers in your layer palette. plus the base layer(top layer). 3. Starting with the bottom layer rename your layers s1,s2,s3,s4,s5,s6, and base (which is the top layer) total of 7 layers. 4. Right click any layer go to VIEW/VIEW NONE 5. Click on layer s1 to make it the active layer 6. Go to your Tool Bar on the left and choose SELECT/MAGIC WAND (you will recognize it because it looks like a wand stick) 7. Now click in the middle of your snow globe and you will see selection ants around the outside edge of the globe ***NOTE: When you use your magic wand, if the ants go out too far, lower your tolerance to like 20 or so, if your ants only fill certain areas of your globe, then you need to raise your tolerance to about 50...these numbers are just suggestions, some wands are more touchy than others so you have to just play with that tolerance a bit. *** 8. Now you should have ants around the outside edge of your globe, and now go to SELECT/MODIFY/CONTRACT and contract your selection by 1. ***NOTE: The select ants is what is going to keep our snow from snowing outside of the globe, the only place you will see snow is inside your selection ants.***** 9. Now with the s1 layer still the active layer (highlighted layer), go to EFFECTS/VDL Adrenalin/Snowflakes and use the following settings. AMOUNT: 30 SIZE RANGE BEGIN: 15 SIZE RANGE END: 20 HARDNESS: 68 TRANSPARENCY: 0 SNOW COLOR: BASIC-SNOW RANDOM SEED: 1 click ok.... ***NOTE: Before we go on to the rest of our steps, you might want to play with your settings, I have mine set for really heavy snow and large flakes, the size ranges are what makes it bigger or littler.....*** 10. Hide your s1 layer and open s2 layer 11. Repeat step 9 changing only the RANDOM number by sliding it up or down an amount and click ok. Hide s2 and unhide s3 12.Continue doing step 9 changing only the RANDOM amount each time on the rest of your layers. 13. Unhide all layers 14. Highlight the base layer and make 5 copies for a total of 6 layers of bases. Rename them b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6 15. Hide all 16. Unhide s1 and b1, merge visible and hide merged layer 17. Unhide s2 and b2, merge visible and hide merged layer 18. Continue the above steps until you have all of your bases merged with your globes. 19 You should now have 6 layers of globe with snow on a base. Rename them from bottom to top, g1,g2,g3,g4,g5, and g6 20. Now we are going to add a tube of your choice to put "inside" your snowing globe. Click on your tube and then go to Edit/Copy, now go back to your snowglobes canvas and click to activate it and then go to Edit/Paste As A New Layer. 21. In your layer palette right click on the tube layer and scroll to Arrange/Send to bottom. 22. In your layer palette, duplicate your tube 5 times for a total of six layers of tube. Rename them from bottom to top, t1,t2,t3,t4,t5, and t6 23. Hide all layers ( right click any layer, scroll to View/View None 24. Unhide t1 and g1, merge visible, hide merged layer 25. Unhide t2 and g2, merge visible, hide merged layer 26. Continue the above steps until you have all of your globe and tube layers merged . You should now have 6 layers of snowglobes. 27. Unhide all layers and save as a psp image, it is now ready to take to animation shop. I hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial ***NOTE: If you want to add the Merry Christmas text I have on my tag, just follow my tut on how to do text on a curve and then make 5 duplicates (for a total of 6 curved text) and then add them to your snowglobe just like you did the tube. I ALWAYS suggest that you take the extra 30 seconds or so that it takes to rename your layers before you start doing your hide/unhide/merge visible steps because that way you don't get confused as to what has been merged and what hasn't.***** Marilyn |
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