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Tip: Be creative with your photographs. For example, turning old pictures into snow globes can help bring them back to life. Making them a 'must see' again for the whole family.
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Paint Shop
Pro Tutorial
How
to make snow globes
No collection
of Paint Shop Pro tutorials would be complete without a Snowglobe tutorial,
so here it is.
Snowglobes
are quite easy to make especially if you have the GLOBE
TUBE, the BASE TUBE and the SPARKLE
TUBE (download by clicking each link) The
animation is a separate tutorial and will give you a good tutorial in itself,
on using Animation Shop, which is part of the
Paint Shop Pro program. Enjoy. STEP
1 Open
a New Image.
300 x 300
Transparent Background
16 Million Colors
STEP
2
You
need to make a round picture for your globe. Open an image that you want
to use as the center of your Snowglobe. We will use this pic of my daughter on
her first day at Kindy many years ago. Make
sure your image is about 200 x 200. Resize if necessary.
STEP
3
With the Selection Tool 
set to Circle, click in the center of the image and make a round
selection.
Copy
the selection to your clipboard. CTRL+C STEP
4 Click
on the New blank image to make it the active canvas. Paste
the round selection "As a New Layer" CTRL+L Move
the image up near the top of the canvas.
STEP
5
Now
click the Toggle Layer Palette 
and rename Layer 2 "danni" or something that suits your image. Now
make 2 more new layers. Name
layer 3 "Sparkles" and Layer 4 "Globe".
STEP
6
Seeing
how you have just added a New Layer called Globe, this then should
be the active layer. Now
click on the Picture Tube Tool 
and select the Globe Tube from the drop down list. Size
the Globe Tube so that it will fit over the top of the Circle and
move into place as necessary. The example here was sized to 93. You may have to
play around to get a good fit.
STEP
7
Add
a New Layer and name this Base. Select
the Base Tube from the Picture Tube Drop Down List and size it to
what you made the Globe. Position
at the base of the Globe. Go
to Colors || Colorize and slide the Hue to a color that suits your globe
coloring. Please follow the link below to continue the snowglobe
tutorial. Click
here for part 2
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