New Tutorial on Snow Buildup Over Time

[Lin Evans]

Hi Folks,

Due to some recent interest in snow effects I have posted two new AVI tutorials for Intermediate/Advanced users of Photoshop who would like to create snow animations where snow builds up on trees, rocks, vegetation, etc., over time during the animation.

These two AVI tutorials are accompanied by a "components" zip file which contains modified Panos Snow Globe PNG files to allow those who wish to do so to animate inside a Panos FX created snow globe. The tutorials are number 23 in my tutorials section and are pretty large AVI files being about 110 and 90 meg respectively. To animate the buildup of snow over time and use my tutorials you need to either have Photoshop or be able to extrapolate the Photoshop preparation to your choice of photo editing software which allows selection by color, fill, etc. Unfortunately, I don't have other software such as Elements to experiment with, so if you don't have access to Photoshop you are pretty much on your own.

Essentially, what I'm doing is creating multiple PNG files with differing degrees of snow simulation covering vegetation. These are then played back with snow animation inside the snowglobe using PTE's fade in/fade out feature to simulate gradual build up of snow over time. Various other animations such as cloud movement, etc., can be used for more advanced PTE users, but this will give those who are interested some foundations to build on. Below I have placed links to the Tutorials section as well as to a sample of this being done in one of my own simulations:

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7901 (link to tutorials page)

http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/xmas/springsnowspc.zip (Windows Sample)

http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/xmas/springsnowsmac.zip (MacIntosh Sample)

Best regards,

Lin

[nelson]

Lin, thanks for giving so freely of your time.

I refer to your tutorials constantly and look forward to new ones.

Kieron