Quick Snow

Author: Edna Munn

Software: PhotoImpact Version 12 & X3

Title: Quick Snow

Skill Level: Beginner

Description: This tutorial will teach you how to make Quick Snow using the In House Animation capabilities of PhotoImpact.

Making an animation "without" Gif Animator that used to come packaged with PhotoImpact is very easy. I will show you how in a very quick and easy tutorial. 

No outside filters are used to make the Snow  it is all done with the Particle Effects animation in your drop down menu. in your PhotoImpact Software.

Supplies Needed: A copy of PhotoImpact 30 Day Free Trial 

Right-Click and save the photo to your Hard Drive.

This photo was taken by me and is copyright free for your use in this tutorial.

Let's get started and don't forget to save often!!

Open your copy of PhotoImpact.

Goto File/Open  and navigate to the folder you saved the above image or open one of your own images.

Duplicate your image Ctrl+D and close of the original image.

Goto Effects/Particle Effects from the drop down menu.

The pop out below will become available to you and this is were we are going to make the snow all in one step by changing a couple of numbers.

Firstly change the number of frames to 4.

Click on Snow in the Particle scrolling menu to the left.

Then make sure there is a tick in the Repeat box.

 Now click on the Infinite Loop button so that your animation when finished won't stop after the 4 frame sequence.

Make sure that you are in the Basic Tab menu.

On  Frame 1 (starting from the top) change

The Density to 1000

The Size to 13

The Variance to 100

The Opacity  to 100.

Now click on the diamond button at the end on the right and this will take you to the last frame number 4.

You will also need to change frame 4 to the same settings as frame 1.

The Density to 1000

The Size to 13

The Variance to 100

The Opacity  to 100.

Now click on the Advanced Tab as we are going to change a number here as well.

On Frame 1 change

Vibration to 20

Now click on the little diamond at the end on the right, (this will take you to Frame 4) and also change

 Vibration to 20

Nearly there! :-))

Click on the triangle and run your animation.

 Happy with it??

Then click on the Save button.

You will get another pop out that will let you save your animation without taking it to GA.

On this pop out, change the colours to 120 and give your animation a name.

The default Frame delay is 10. I have changed mine to 12 as I felt that 10 was a touch to fast.

Make sure that there is a tick in the Infinite Loop box.

At this stage as we are not using Gif Animator, make sure that there is "NO" tick in the "Open with Ulead Gif Animator" box.

Click on Save.

Now you are Finished.

Navigate to the folder you saved your animation to, double click on it and your animation should look something like the animation below.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

Extras

If you want to change the direction of the snow just click on the Advanced tab and in the wind direction box type the direction you want.

By clicking on Add/Add Animation, will also allow you to add the animation you have created to your EP. At a later stage if you ever want to add this animation to another image, you can do so by double clicking on it in your EP

Please feel free to  print this tutorial out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  to put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this, is not intentional and is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 10th February 2009 and is therefore

© to Edna Munn

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