:: stars, hide your fires ::

[carnimirie]

[Code Geass] x15
C.C. x3
Kallen x3
Lelouch x3
Euphemia x2
Shirley x1
Knightmare x1
Lelouch and C.C. x1
Rolo and Lelouch x1

[Fullmetal Alchemist] x15
Edward x7
Winry x5
Greed x2
Fuery x1

[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni] x5
Shion x5

[Weiss Kreuz] x8
Aya x4
Crawford x4

[Yuugiou] x7
Anzu x3
TAS!Bakura x3
TAS Quotes x1

[Miscellaneous] x4

Comments

[carnimirie]

Heehee, that's one of my favorites! \o/

It *is* a very long process indeed. If you like, I could make a tutorial for you on it? I've always wanted to make a tutorial, lol.

In a few sentences though (and keep in mind, this is if you use Jasc Paintshop), first you find a snow effect animation (or rain, or petals, etc) and open it in Jasc Animation shop; then you select all the frames, copy them, and paste them into Paintshop. What happens is all the different frames become layers in one picture. Put them all into one raster group- don't lose their order!- and paste as a new layer on top of whatever picture you want to give the snow effect. Then you play with the Blend Mode of the entire group (Light or Screen should work best). Then you hide all but the first layer of the snow in the raster group, copy merged, and paste into Animation shop as new animation. Repeat with the subsequent layers, pasting them after the last frame. Then you just play with frame properties to dictate speed and voila! You have a snow effect!

That is a very appropriate reaction to that icon, hahaha~

[sabishii_omoide]

Thanks! Please do make one if you want.

Yep. I've always used PSP (with Animation Shop), and that's what I was using to attempt it. I was trying to do manual layers and manual spacing before pasting into Animation Shop, which is why I failed so badly. Never thought about finding a pre-made animation to stick on a base because I didn't know there were any out there. Might have seen a petals animation though... Guess I'll have to go looking. Just hope I find some. (Rain you can actually make without the use of an animation).