New Year Sparkle

 

***Tutorial New Year Sparkle By JackieBeth, written on December 22, 2010***

**SAVE PROGRESS OFTEN**

***add drop shadows and resize/recolor when you see fit***

Items Needed

Paint Shop Pro/version PSPX was used to create this tutorial

Animation Shop

image of choice

Artist I Used: Anthony Guerra (currently has no website)
work currently unavailable

filter Xero/Porcelain

filter Alien Skin Xenofex 2/Constellation

filter Mura Meister/Copies
 font & 2 masks of choice/font used in this tutorial: "Snidely"

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open a blank transparent canvas size 500 by 500

flood fill white

open a image of choice

in your layer palette right click on top of your image layer

promote background layer

apply a mask of choice (best to use one with jagged edges)

merge group

copy and paste image to canvas

apply filter Xero/Porcelain: change blue to 0

free rotate 15 to the right

duplicate image

select bottom layer

apply filter Mura Meister/Copies: Wall Paper default

effects/distortion effects/wind: from left 100

apply second mask of choice

merge group

duplicate your mask layer twice

on each mask layer apply the following filter, changing only random seed each layer

apply filter Alien Skin Xenofex/Constellation

star size 1.98

size variation 47

edge star density 1

overall star density 3

overdrive 100

twinkle amount 75

twinkle rotation 45

keep original image selected

hide your bottom two mask layers

copy merged

paste as new animation in animation shop

in psp unhide your second and hide the first mask layer

copy merged

paste after current layer in animation shop

do the same for your third mask layer

apply all proper credits

add names/phrases as you wish