I Dream of Genie

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 28, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Stars by me here

It's in my celestrial scrapkit if you have it

Flower here

Plugins

Tramages Hex Lattice

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Eyecandy Nature

The tube I used Genie (PTE1453) is by Elias Chatzoudis, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

The name of my font is Artesanias

 

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply hex lattice, change the top # to 30 & the 2nd # to 100

Apply cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 90

Add a new raster layer

Select all

Paste flower into selection

Deselect

Layer properties>luminance

Apply constellation

Settings>small star constellation>keep original image checked

Paste your stars as a new layer

Floodfill with a lighter shade of your color

Resize to 75%

Position in lower right corner

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Duplicate, flip & merge down

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Apply bright noise intensity 75, mix checked

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Using your freehand selection tool select around the lamp

Copy, cut & deselect

Paste as new layer

Position back into place

Select around the spout

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy nature smoke

Settings>large expanding breeze with these settings

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

Add a new raster layer

Select all

Floodfill with your bg color

Contract 12

Delete & deselect

Add inner bevel & drop shadow

Repeat bright noise changing intensity to 50

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

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

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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You'll find my email blinkie on your left

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Result by Kaye W