You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
DBS-Flux - Bright Noise
Xenofex2 - Constellation
Frame style mask.  I used one from Zuzzanna
Brush from
Obsidian Dawn.  Curtain brush supplied here
Tube and close up image of choice.  I'm using Barbara Jensen.  She is a licensed artist, and you can purchase her tubes
here
Two fonts of choice

Load your brush and mask into your chosen folders.  Open a new canvas of 500 x 500 flood filled with white.  Add a new layer and flood fill with a bright colour from your tube.  Load the mask, invert selected, click ok, and merge group.  Add DBS-Flux Bright Noise, intensity 30.

Open your close up image.  Take your selection tool and select the inside of the box of your mask.  Copy your close up and paste as a new layer.  Resize as you require to fill the selection.  Invert and hit delete to remove any overspill.  Select none and change the blend mode to Multiply.

New layer.  Select your brush tool and the curtain brush, size 346 (or whatever size you need to fit in that box).  Change your foreground to white, and apply your brush to the top of the box (see my finished tag), clicking about 4 times in the same place.  Duplicate twice to so you have 3 layers of this.  On the top one apply Xenofex 2 - Constellation with the following settings:

Apply to the other two layers hitting random seed once on each.

Add you tube, with a drop shadow of choice.  Then add your copyright, name, and any messages.  I'm using 'Merry Christmas'.

Hide the bottom two of your constellation layers, copy merged, and paste over into Animation Shop.  Back in PSP, hide the top constellation, and unhide the next one down.  Copy merged and paste after current frame in Animation Shop.  Repeat with the final Constellation.  Animate and save as a gif.



You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Merry Christmas to you all.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 7th October 2007 by Faerie Queen.