Lady Sheriff

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on August 3, 2011

For more info read my TOU

Materials Needed

Scrapkit Cow Poke here

Mask #120 by Wee Scott Lass here

Plugins

Xero Fritillary

Eyecandy 4000 HSB Noise

The tube I used is by Tim Lowery, 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 black

Apply Xero Fritillary changing the top & bottom numbers to 12

New layer

Floodfill with white

Apply mask

Merge group

Duplicate

Rename these layers to animation 1 & 2

Using your elipse tool click the blue circle under Mode

Width 15, foreground a color from your tube, background null

Draw a circle around the stars

Use your pick tool to resize as needed, you want the circle as large as the mask

Align Center

Do Not Convert to Raster!

Paste your tube as a new layer

Move below your circle layer

Resize as needed and/or use your eraser so none of your tube shows outside your circle

Paste wheel as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near bottom left

Paste tub 1 as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near bottom left, just below the wheel, refer to my tag

Paste branch 2 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position near bottom left

Move this layer to below the tub

Paste badge 1 as a new layer

Resize to 25%

Position near the top right inside the circle

Paste barrel 1 as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near lower right

Paste hay as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position in front of the barrel

Paste sunflower 2 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position over barrel

Move this layer to below the barrel layer

Duplicate & mirror

Move this layer to below the tub layer

Paste rope 7 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position bottom center

Move this layer to below the circle layer

Activate your circle layer

Activate your text tool

Add a new Vector Layer

Take your text tool to the top of the circle on your new vector layer.  When you see an A with a 1/2 circle go ahead & click

Type the words Lady Sheriff 2 or 3 times with a few spaces in between each phrase

Convert to raster layer

Going back to your circle layer, convert to raster

Add bevel effect using bevel #3, width 3

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your © info & your name

Activate animation 1

Apply Eyecandy HSB Noise, default settings

Repeat on animation 2 clicking on the random seed button

Hide animation 1, merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Unhide animation 1

Hide animation 2

Merge visible

Paste after current in animation shop

Save as gif and you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your result, just email it to me.  Please remember to include the tut name in the subject line!

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