Guardian Angel At My Window

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 29, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Celestial scrapkit by me here

Plugins

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Eyecandy glass

Xenofex Constellation

The tubes I used Tides (1-2) & Celestial (2-1) are by Jonathon Earl Bowser, you can purchase these tubes from CDO here

The name of my font is Tagettes

I used size 36 & 48

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with dark blue

Add an inner bevel

Apply bright noise intensity 50, mix checked

Apply contellation

Settings>medium>keep original image checked

Paste your window as a new layer

Holding down your shift key select all 4 winow panes with your magic wand

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a rainbow gradient

I set mine on radial, angle 45, repeats 12

Move to below your frame

Do Not Deselect

Paste your first tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position on left side of the windown

Paste your second tube as a new layer

Repeat what you did with the first one

Position on right side of window

Merge down

Invert your selection

Delete & deselect

Apply bright noise to your window intensity 35, mix checked

Holding down your shift key click inside the window panes again

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer

Apply eyecandy glass

Settings>clear

Lighting>click on select from file>sky sun & dusk

Deselect

Paste moon & stars 2 as a new layer

Floodfill with a sky blue

Resize to 40%

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Position in the upper left corner

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Repeat bright noise changing intensity to 40, mix checked

Paste moon & star chain as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position on right side of your window

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

If you're using the same tube as I am:

Paste layer 7 from your tube as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Select around the lower left dove

Copy, cut & deselect

Paste as a new layer

Position at the upper left of your frame covering the top of your moon & star chain

Repeat with the lower right dove

Position on upper right of your frame

Move the remaining dove to the very top of your window frame

If you're using a different tube then you can subsititute the doves with something else

Paste flower 5 as a new layer

Erase the hook

Resize to 30%

Position on lower right corner of your window

Add drop shadow

Paste flare 3 as a new layer

Floodfill with your sky blue

Resize to 60%

Position on your window as shown on my tag

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Paste your angel as a new layer

Resize as needed to make her small

Position on the bottom left of your window frame

Add drop shadow

Duplicate

Change layer opacity to 90

Keep duplicating decreasing layer opacity by 10 until you're down to 20

You'll have 9 angel layers

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide all your angel layers except the bottom one

Merge visible

Paste into animation shop

Hide your bottom angel & unhide the next one up

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until all 9 frames are pasted

I changed the frame properties on frames 2 - 8 at 45

Frames 1 & 9 at 90

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

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Result by Kaye W