The Future Is

Supplies needed

Tube of choice
Font of choice
DSB Flux - Linear Transmission
Animation Shop
My Supplies - here

I used the awesome art of Deacon Black. You must purchase a licence to use art which can be done here

Lets begin!

Note:If you want to change the colour of the animation, take the frames into PSP and change the colour there, then paste them back into animation shop as a new animation before you begin the tutorial.

1. Open my template in animation shop. Copy and paste the first frame into PSP as a new image.

2. We will be using this for placement for all other elements of the tag.

3. Copy and paste the 'The Future Is' words over as a new layer and place to the left side of the circle.

4. Grab your preset shape tool set to circle, width - 2, line style, dash, outer - colour from your tube, inner - null, and draw out a circle pretty close to the Black circle. Objects, Align, center in canvas, convert to raster. Repeat but change the colour to black and make the circle a little bigger this time. See mine above for reference.

5. With your freehand selection tool, select the areas where the lines are going over your text. Make one line layer active and hit delete on your keyboard, repeat for the other line layer. Selections, select none.

6. Copy and paste the 'Me and You' words over as a new layer and place to the right side of the black circle.

7. Grab your preset shape tool again set to circle, outer - null, inner, a colour from your tube, draw out a circle inside the black circle. Objects, align, center in canvas. Convert to raster.

8. Effects, DSB Flux - Linear Transmission with the following settings.

Slice Size - 3
Offset - 4
Blend - 50
Horizontal checked

9. Copy and paste the WiccaScroll as a new layer. Rotate it to the left slightly using your raster deform tool.

10. Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer and place her over the scroll. If you need to, delete some of her legs and make it look like her legs are in the scroll. Add any drop shadows of choice to your tube.

11. Copy and paste the heather as a new layer and place it near the scroll.

12. Add your copyright information, watermark and name. Hide the bottom layer, edit, copy merged, paste into animation shop as a new animation.

13. Duplicate by holding down ctrl alt and L on your keyboard until you have 3 frames. Edit, select all, copy.

14. Back on the template, edit, select all, hit ctrl and E on your keyboard to paste onto the template.

15. Save as a gif and your all done.


Thanks for trying my tutorial

This tutorial was written by me, weescotslass on 12th July 2007, any resemblance to any other tutorial is completely coincidental.

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