Four Seasons supplies needed: 4 tubes of your choice to represent the four seasons van der lee - snowflakes plugin open a new transparent image 600 x 600 flood fill with a light color of your choice effects/texture effects/texture with the following settings select the pen tool with these settings and black for the foreground color position the pen tool at x-300 y-0 draw a straight line down the entire image now position the pen tool at x 0 y 300 and draw a straight line across the entire image you should have this layers/merge/merge all flat now take your season tubes which should be no larger then 280x280 copy and paste as new layer 1 in each square making sure winter and spring ar in opposite corners. add drop shadow to each tube as follows resize all layers to 350x350 adjust/sharpness/sharpen image/add borders 1px in a dark color 1px in your light color 1px in a dark color 8px in your light color select the 8px border with magic wand adjust/add/remove noise/add noise with following settings effects/3d effects/inner bevel with the following settings selections/select none repeat border steps from above but change 8px to 20 px select 20px border with wand adjust/add/remove noise/add noise same settings as above effects/plugin/simple/diamond effects/3d effects/inner bevel same settings as above selections/select none add new raster layer name it text add text and use deform tool to position add new raster layer name it watermark add watermark now you should have 3 layers close off text and watermark layers and highlight layer 1 add layer name it rain 1 you should now have this select your selection tool with the following settings with your rain 1 layer highlighted draw a square around the spring square with your selection tool effects/plugin/van der lee/snowflakes apply the following settings adjust/blur/motion blur with the following settings add new raster layer name it rain 2 highlight rain 2 and follow the steps above but adjust the seed to 2000 apply motion blur as well same settings add new raster layer name it rain 3 follow the steps above but adjust to seed 4000 apply motion blur same settings add new raster layer name it snow 1 using the selection tool draw a square around the winter square with snow 1 highlighted effect/plugin/van der lee/snowflakes with following settings add new raster layer name it snow 2 effects/plugin/van der lee/snowflakes apply same settings as above but adjust seed to 2000 add new raster layer name it snow 3 effects/plugin/van der lee/snowflakes apply same settings but adjust seed to 4000 selections/select none now we move to AS open your text ,watermark and layer 1 leave rain 1 and snow 1 open and close off all others you should have this copy merged paste as new animation in AS repeat closing rain 1 and snow 1 open rain 2 and snow 2 copy merged paste after current frame in AS close rain 2 and snow 2 open rain 3 and snow 3 copy merged paste after current frame in AS you can adjust your frame speed by going to edit/select all then animation/frame properties and putting in the number you want i chose 10 now resize to your needs and optimize and save Tutorial written by Amanda (momof3) for Le Café D'Amis Click here to show me off your results!

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