Dont Have A Cow

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 10, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Tramages Tow The Line

The tube I used Betty (57-1) is by cuddly Rigor Mortis, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of my font is Tamborine

I used size 48 for my text before resizing

I used size 60 for my name after resizing

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color of your choice

Apply tramages tow the line using default settings

Paste your tube as a new layer

Add a drop shadow

Activate your elipse shape tool, change mode to circle, width 20, foreground null

Pick a darker shade of your color

Draw a circle around your tube

Resize if needed

Align center

Add inner bevel

Move your color to the background & pick a lighter shade for your foreground

Activate your foreground gradient, radial, angle 45, repeats 60

Activate your magic wand & click inside your circle

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer & floodfill

Move to below your tube layer

Do Not Deselect

Activate your tube layer

Invert your selection

Delete & deselect

Add a drop shadow to your circle

Activate your circle tool again, select a contrasting color, width 1, background null

Align center

Add a new vector layer

Activate your text tool

Hover your text tool over the top of the circle, left click when you see the little A

Write out your text

I used size 48 & had to add 4 spaces in between each phrase

Go back to your circle background layer

Duplicate & rotate right 30

Duplicate & rotate right 30

Repeat this until you have a total of 6

Resize all layers to 70%

After resizing I repasted my tube, resized to 90% and did the selection inside the frame, inverted then deleted & deselected

I did this because I didn't like the way the cow looked & I wanted her to look bigger

Add your 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

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until you have all 6 layers pasted

I set my frame properties at 15

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

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

You'll find my email blinkie on your left

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Result by Kaye W