Happy Cats

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on August 7, 2011

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Sun here

Colored Roses here

The tube I used is by Judy Mastrangelo, you will need a license to use which you can purchase from PTE here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with white

New raster layer

Floodfill with a pattern or gradient

New raster layer

Activate your tubes tool and look for a grass or lawn tube

Place the grass around the bottom part of your tag

Now select the dandelion tube and place a few around on the grass

Select the grass blade tube, change the step size to 50 or smaller

Place a few around

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Paste sun as a new layer

Resize to 25%

Position upper left corner

Add drop shadow

Paste a rose as a new layer

Resize to 40%

Add drop shadow

Position near the bottom left

Duplicate

Resize to 85%

Paste another rose as a new layer

Resize to 45%

Position with the others

Move this layer to between the first 2 rose layers

Repeat with a 3rd rose as above

Merge all your rose layers

Rotate left 60

Move layer to below the grass layer

I resized it to 85%

Activate the tube layer

Using your freehand selection tool, set mode on Replace, feather 0

Select around the lower half of the tail

Click inside your selection & it will draw tight around the tail

Defloat

Copy the selection

Deselect

CTRL X to Cut

Paste as a new layer two times rename layers to Tail 1 & 2

Move one of the tails back into place.  

Rotate the other one left 15 and put back into position

Repeat this on the head of the white cat

Dont forget to rename your layers

Add your name & text

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your © info

Hide 1 head & 1 tail

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Unhide your layers

Hide the other layers of the head & tail

Merge visible

Copy & paste after current into animation shop

I set my frame properties at 60

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

:)