Crimson Beauty

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on March 24, 2012

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Diamond, right click to save

Plugins

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Maura Meister Copies

Eyecandy 4 HSB Noise

The tube I used Crimson is by Keith Garvey, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

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

Set your background color to black, pick a foreground color from your tube

Floodfill with your foreground gradient, radial, angle 45, repeats 60, vertical 0

Effects>Reflection Effects>Kaleidscope, default settings

Effects>texture effects>fur, default settings

Apply graphics plus cross shadow using default settings

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Position on the left side

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Change layer properties to lighten

Change opacity to 60

Paste diamond as a new layer

Apply maura meister copies, wallpaper default settings

Change layer properties to soft light

Duplicat & mirror

Merge down

Move this layer a bit so there are no diamonds over the face

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy hsb noise, default settings

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking on the random seed button each time

Resize all layers to 65%

Add your text, name & © info

 

Animation:

Follow the usual steps to merge, copy & paste into animation shop

If you need help with this feel free to email me

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