Cherry Blossoms

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on March 28, 2012

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Mura's Seamless Stripe

The tube I used Cherry Blossom is by Anna Liwanag, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

The name of my font is Amperzand

Open a new transparent canvas 940x400, we will resize later

Floodfill with a dark color from your tube

Duplicate 5 times

Apply maurs's seamless stripes with these settings

Number at 65, you'll need to play with the colors to get what you want

Repeat on each animation layer increasing the number by 1 each time

Paste your tube as a new layer

If you're using the same tube paste both layers

If not then duplicate & mirror, resize a bit and maybe change the layer properties

Add drop shadow

Resize all layers to 65%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide all your animation layers except the top one

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Continue this until you have all frames copied

View your animation

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

:)

Result by Kaye W