Girls & Butterflies

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 16, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

You'll need a butterfly if your tube doesn't have one

Take a look through your scrapkits for one

Plugins

Mura Meister Copies

Eyecandy Texture Swirl

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Eyecandy Texture Noise

The tube I used Girl 1 (14-2) is by Jamie Kidd, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Fiolex Girls

I used size 48 for my text & 60 for my name

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Paste your butterfly as a new layer

Resize as needed (I resized mine to 25%)

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & resize to 75%

Hide your original butterfly layer for now

Apply mura meister copies

Wallpaper, change # to 200

Duplicate, mirror, flip & merge down

Apply eyecandy texture swirl

Settings>features, medium, no twist

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Change layer properties to overlay

Apply graphics plus cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 80

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Position on one side

Add drop shadow

Paste your close up tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Position on opposite side of your main tube

Add drop shadow

Unhide your butterfly layer

Move to top

Duplicate & hide the duplicated layer

Move to near the upper left side of your right tube

Duplicate & resize to 75%

Repeat until you have 4 butterflies

Merge all 4

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Duplicate 2 times

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 60, mix checked

Repeat on other 2 layers changing intensity to 65 & 70

Rename these layers to animation 1, 2 & 3

Unhide your butterfly layer

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eycandy texture nose

Settings>tie dye

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

Rename these layers to animation 4, 5 & 6

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide your middle & bottom animation layers

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your top animation layers & unhide the middle ones

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your middle animation layers & unhide the bottom ones

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

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