how to make a snowglobe

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This is another version of the snowglobe tutorial this time using the snow from the "making snow" tutorial. I will go through the whole thing again including the base so that there's no need to jump from one tutorial to another.

The snow.
First of all, make the snow brush - if you made the brush in the making snow tutorial, you can skip this bit.

Select the brush tool and the 17px soft round.

Now using the brush menu in the dock at the right of your top option bar, choose the following:

Next click on this arrow -

Choose "new brush preset". Name the brush "snow" and click okay.

The base.
Now make a brush for the base of our snowglobe. There are 2 versions - a plain one and one with a gradient added.

To do that in Photoshop, go to the edit menu, choose "define brush preset", name it and click okay. The new brush will appear at the bottom of your brushes list.

Open your document - I made mine 400px wide by 300px high, 72ppi.

On a new layer, stamp the base brush. The brush is 183px but, for this example, I made the size 140px. If you want a plain coloured base, use the plain base brush. If you want one with a gradient, choose the colour you want and use the second base brush. My base looks like this:

The layer with the base on it needs to be kept at the top of the layer palette - we don't want it to snow on the base!

Click on the background layer in the layer palette and then open a new layer. Fill that layer with black.

Select the brush tool and choose the snow brush you made above. Use white and, on a new layer, draw snow over the black layer. Don't be too heavy-handed.

Delete the black layer. You won't be able to see your snow any more but it's still there.

The photograph.
You need to crop your photo into a square. For this example, I cropped mine to 200x200, 72ppi. Copy and paste it on to your snowglobe canvas. Put it under the snow layer in the layer palette. You will see the snow on top of your photo.

Using the elliptical marquee tool, hold down the shift key and drag to make a circle that looks good on top of your base.

With the photo layer selected, do filter-distort-spherise. The part of your photo inside the circle will bend to look like it's a sphere.

Still with the photo layer selected, do shift-ctrl-I to invert the selection and then delete. This will take away the parts of the photo outside the circle.

The animation.
Now select the snow layer and jump into Image Ready by clicking on the icon at the very bottom of the left tool bar or doing shift-ctrl-M.

Because the snow layer is selected, you should be able to see the blue box around the layer. With the move tool selected, use the arrows on your keyboard to nudge the layer up until the bottom of the blue box is just above the bottom of the snowglobe photo. Be sure to nudge the box and don't move it by dragging it. If it goes off-centre, it won't look right when it's animated. To speed the nudging up a wee bit, hold the shift key whilst nudging with the arrows. That will make each nudge 10px instead of 1px.

Create a new frame in the animation palette and nudge the blue box down until the top is just below the top of the snowglobe photo.

With the second frame selected, click on the tween button and use 6 frames.

In your animation palette, click on the first frame and then shift click on the last frame to select them all. Set the timing to 0.2 seconds.

Click on the background layer in the layer palette. Now click on the first frame again and then press the play button to watch the snow fall. If you want it faster or slower adjust the timing accordingly. Save optimised as a .gif file. Here's our final snowglobe:

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11/28/2007 2:21 pm

Hey Anne--do you have any idea if this would work in PSE? This would be SUCH a cute idea for my Christmas card (sans animation, of course).

ETA: I am totally stumped on how to make the base. Is there a brush for that? I wasn't able to follow the tut. I don't have a "Define Brush Preset" I only have "define Brush" but I think you have to use part of a graphic for that.

Also, if I were to use a picture inside the snowglobe would I not want to make it shperical so it's not all distorted?

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11/28/2007 3:12 pm

I don't use PSE but I would think that you would open the jpg for the base into your PSE and choose "define brush to make the brush. Choose either the black one for a plain base or the gradiented (??) one for one that looks like it has a gradient on it.

As for the photo, sometimes they look good spherised and sometimes they don't. I know that in the original tutorial that I wrote, I used a photo of my dog and she was scary when I spherised her! LOL

Here's the original tutorial - scroll down to post 12 for Debbie's PSE instructions.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-prsigshownew?msg=2084.1

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11/28/2007 3:46 pm

hey anne, how do you get rid of the bottom of the photo?

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Ctrl-click on the thumbnail of the layer with the base to make the ants walk around the base. Then select the photo layer and do ctrl-X to remove the bit of the photo that's overlapping the base.

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