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Falling Snow Effect

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Written by Chetankumar Akarte

Thursday, 03 May 2007

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Falling Snow Effect
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Create a new document

Create a new document. Set background color to #FFEAF4. Set the width and height of your movie to be 400(width) by 300(height). You can define your document size depending on background image you are using. Here I am using snow-house image (see figure - snow-house.jpg) whose size is 400px by 300px. So I have kept my document size as per size of image I am using.

Figure - snow-house.jpg

Set your frame rate to 35 frames per second. Frame rate defines speed of falling snow. More the frame rate faster the speed and vice versa.
Now import your background image to library. You can do it as follows…
File > Import > Import to Library…