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Snow Storm
Part
One
In part one, we will
be making a "Snow Globe" using the quick image I made using trees and snowmen
from the Component Designer Christmas banner section of PhotoImpact X3.
In
Part 2 we will create a "Snow Storm" with the snow that you have
made from my
GA Snow Tutorial and the "Snow Globe" we will make in this tutorial .
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Right-click on the image below and save it to a folder on your hard drive.
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OK lets get started!
Making your Snow Globe in PhotoImpact
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1. Make a new image 400 x 400 at 300 ppi with a white
background.
2. Click on your path drawing tool and draw out a circle any
colour, 2D mode, 200 x 200.
3. Object/Align/Centre Both.
4. Edit/Fill/Image and navigate to the folder where you have
saved your background tile.
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5.
Check the Fit To Image then click on preview to see how it looks in your circle.
If it looks ok then click on OK. If not click on the tile to fit and see what
that looks like. Pick the better of the 2.
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6.
Right-click and duplicate your circle.
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7. Open
your EP/Material/Glass/L01. |
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8.
Open the Material box by clicking on the Adjust Material Icon above.
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9. Select
"Shading", then Metallic, Copper and give "Shininess" a value of 16 and the
"Strength" 0. |
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10. Select "Light" and move the
Ambient up to 50.
10a. Deselect Object. |
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11. Click on your Path Drawing Tool/Custom
Shape/F134.
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12. While your shape (F134) is still
selected, go to Material/Metallic/M17 and double click.
This will give your stand a nice silver metallic
look. |
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13. Draw out your shape so that it covers the
bottom of your Snow Globe. Click on your Transform Tool and click on
the Flip Horizontally icon. Now move your stand so that it sits nicely
at the bottom of your Snow Globe.
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14. Right-Click and duplicate your stand.
15. Right- Click/Arrange/Send to
back.
16. Your back stand will still be selected
so move it up until it looks natural. To get the perspective right you
will need to
make the width a tiny bit smaller.
17. You should end up with an image that looks
something like the one on the
right.
At this point add some elements behind the glass
and some elements in front of the glass
like a snowman etc. This is entirely up to you. |
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17. File/Save As/UFO
If you have trouble opening .ufo files in GA 5 then
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End of
Part One!
If you have followed
the instructions on my how to
make snow
tutorial GA 5, then
Part 2 will show you how to animate the snow you have created inside a path
Drawing Tool shape such as a circle etc.
Thank you for doing
my tutorial and I hope you had fun making your Snow Globe in PI.
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 14th January 2010 and is therefore
© to Edna Munn
Website and web set Design
Also created
by
Edna Munn
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