Spring Beauty
Supplies needed
Tube of ChoiceFont of choice(I used Flower1)
Mask of choice
Mura's Meister-Cloud
DSB Flux - Linear Transmission
Animation Shop
Supplies
I used the beautiful art of Rion Vernon. You must purchase a licence to use art which can be done here
Lets begin!
1. Open a new canvas 700x600 and fill white.
2. Add a new raster layer, Effects, Mura's Meister - Clouds with the following settings.
Effect - 100 Amount - 100 Grain - 3 all other settings should be zero. Top and bottom colours should both be white, middle - #c0c0ff
3. Apply a round mask of choice to this layer, delete mask and answer yes to the question asked. Ungroup layers.
4. Add a new raster layer, Effects, Mura's Meister - Clouds with the same settings, this time change the bottom 2 colours to green shades. I used #6fbc6b and #a4daa1
5. Apply the same round mask and again delete. Ungroup layers. Use your raster deform tool to flatten the circle to the bottom to make it look like a clump of grass.
6. Select your preset shape tool set to circle and using a colour from your tube, outer - null, draw out a lerge circle, do not convert yet, objects, align, center in canvas. Convert to raster.
7. Staying on your preset shape tool, set the outer to a different colour from your tube, line width - 2, line style - small dash...inner null, draw out a circle to sit inside the large one, objects, align, center in canvas. Convert to raster. Repeat this as many times as you like making them smaller each time.
8. Again with preset shape tool set to circle, outer - null, inner a different colour from your tube, draw out a smaller circle, objects, align, center in canvas. Convert to raster.
9. Add a new raster layer and place some flower brushes of choice to fit inside the smaller circle. I resized mine.
10. Make your large circle active and duplicate. On the original, not the duplicate, adjust, blur, avarage - 20
11. Effects, DSB-Flux - Linear Transmission with the following settings.
Slice size - 2
Offset - 6
Blend - 50
Horizontal Checked
12. Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer and add a drop shadow of choice.
13. Write out your name in a font of choice. If you want to have the same effect as me, follow the next steps...if not, continue to step - 14
2 Tone Text
Make sure you have placed your text similar to mine using one of the colours from your circle. Make the inner circle active and select inside it with your magic wand. Make the text layer the active layer, selections, promote selection to layer. Click back on your text layer, selection, invert, selections, promote to layer. Selections, select none.
Delete the original text layer. Activate the layer that you need to change the colour of. Selections, select all, selections float, selections, defloat, select your flood fill tool and select the colour you will need. Fill inside the marching ants, selections, select none. Hide all other layers and merge these 2 layers together. Unhide the other laters.
14. Add your copyright information and watermark, copy merged and paste into animation shop as a new animation.
Animation
1. Once you have your tag open in animation shop, hit ctrl, shift and L until you have 15 frames.
2. Open the animations and find the brown tulips. edit - select all - copy. Back on your tag, edit, select all, hold down Ctrl and E...this places the tulips in the same place in every frame.
3. Repeat this until you have as many as you like on your tag. Be careful not to put too many in. I mirrored the tulips when doing the opposite side of my tag, but thats up to you. I also used 2 different colours and have provided both if you want to use them.
4. Find the animation bee-2, edit, select all, copy, back on your tag, Ctrl and E . Repeat this for the other animations placing them wherever you like. You may want to change the colour of the small butterflies...to do this just click on - animation, replace colour and tell it which colour you want to change, and to which colour.
5. Save as a gif, and your all done.
Thanks for trying my tutorial
This tutorial was written by me, weescotslass on 29th June 2007, any resemblance to any other tutorial is completely coincidental.
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