ADDING A SPARKLE STAR

IN

 PHOTOIMPACT 11

Part one

 Sparkle Star Supplies are HERE  Some Christmas fonts HERE

Step 1.

Make you background in PI, ( I used 350x200) adding any borders or other effects that you like.

Step 2.

Choose a Christmas font that has a Christmas tree, size the text to 200. I have chosen 2 Peas Let it Snow, Which is a pay4 but there are a lot of free fonts out there that have just as nice trees.

Step 3. 

Duplicate your tree to the number of times you want the colour to change.

Step 4.

Goto: Photo/Color/Hue and Saturation and give each duplicated tree a different colour by using the settings in the screenshot. To get different colours just move the top slider and leave Saturation at 59 and Lightness at 0.

Step 5.

Write you greeting (I wrote Merry Christmas) on your sig tag, make sure that you are happy with the font, your shadow and the colour you have chosen, only then do you duplicate your greetings text and change it to a different colour. The colour that you change it to is up to you. I usually use a gradient.

IMPORTANT  Make sure your greetings text has the same shadow!!!

Step 6.

Goto: Object/Select all objects in the drop down menu

Your Layer Manager should now look like this

 Click on the eye and hide all layers, the only image that will be showing is the base image. (The reason for this is, so that you don't have to do it in GA (Gif Animator)) Save as a UFO file.

Step 7.

Open GA and open your UFO file. This will give you one frame with the background base image.

I have 5 trees so I will add 5 frames, you will notice that the background image is on all 5 frames

Make sure that your Object Manager is open and that All Objects is showing in the Show objects drop down list.

Step 8.

In the Object Layer Manager in GA, open the eye on one tree and the text colour you would like on the first frame.

Then click and highlight  frame 2 and open the eye on the next tree up, and text that you want showing.

Click and highlight frame 3, opening the eye and text you want.

Repeat this step as you click and highlight each frame, until you are satisfied, that you like the way it looks and are happy with the speed that it  runs at, this is also important.

Adding the star sparkle

PART TWO

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