Moon Watching

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 20, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Celestrial scrapkit by me here

Plugins

Cybia Screenworks

Xenofex Constellation

DSB Flux Bright Noise

The tubes I used White Stuff & Snowflake are by Majestik Art, you can purchase these tubes from MTA here

The name of my font is Nightsky

I used size 42 & 48

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with the light blue from the scrapkit color palette

Apply cybia screenworks, fabric weave

Apply xenofex constellation

Click on settings then on low density

Check the keep original image button

Paste moon & stars 4 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position upper center

Select all>float>defloat

Add a new raster layer

Invert your selection

Floodfill with your bg color

Deselect & merge down

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 60, mix checked

Copy & paste into aniamtion shop

Effects>insert image effect>rotate>default settings

Delete frame 1

Select all

Reverse your frames

Resize to 50% & then again to 70%

Activate frame 1 and select all

Back to psp

Paste your tubes as new layers

Resize as needed & position at both sides

Add drop shadow

Paste fairy as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position at the center bottom

Add drop shadow

Paste various flares & stars as new layers

Resize as needed

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Position in various areas of your tag

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Delete your moon layer

Merge all, copy & paste into animation shop

Multiply until you have 10 frames

Activate frame 1 & select all

Grab your moon by frame 1 and drop into place on frame 1 of your tag

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

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Result by Kaye W