How to make a Snow Globe

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The DOWNLOAD file contains the following files...

fairy4.tub

snowglL.tub

bg12.bmp

ivy.tub

butterf.tub

butterf3.tub

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Download, unzip.

Open PSP open the tubes files and export each as a picture tube.

Go to FILE>NEW use the following settings...

Width: 183

Height: 262

Background color: Transparent

Click ok.

Click the tube tool and pick...snowglL: 100% on the control palette.

Now place a snowglobe in the middle like this...

Now click the magic wand and move your mouse to the white part and click.

This will make the white part selected.

Now go to FILE>OPEN and open the file bg12.bmp. It looks like this...

Select the snowglobe by clicking on it's toolbars.

Click on the flood fill tool select Pattern on the control palette

and click Options, click New Pattern Sorce and pick the bg12.bmp and click ok.

Now flood fill the globe. You can close out bg12.bmp.

Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE.

Now click the tube tool and pick...fairy4: 100% on the control palette.

Now place the fairy in the middle like this...

On the control palette pick...ivy: 55%.

Now place the ivy at the fairies feet like this...

On the control palette pick...butterf3: 24%.

Now place a butterfly on the ivy on the left side like this...

On the control palette pick...butterf: 49%.

Now place a butterfly on the ivy on the right side like this...

On the control palette pick...sparkleB: 28% which I sent in an earlier

lesson and place a sparkle on the top right side of the sky like this...

Now click the selection tool and put a rectangle around

the globe and single click inside the dotted lines.

Now go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW use the following settings...

Color: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 7.5

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Click ok.

Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE.

Click on the top box and pick a color you want your text to be.

I picked a light yellow.

Click the text tool and click on the gold bottom and pick a font.

I picked Black Chancery font, Bold, size 18.

Click ok.

Now go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW use the following settings...

Color: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 3.3

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Click ok.

You can move your text around if you need to.

Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE.

Go to FILE>SAVE AS give it a name and save it as a JPEG file.

This is what it looks like now...

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If you have any questions please just ask...