Moonlight Falls

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 8, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Stars here

Flower Mist here

Plugins

DC Special Nylon

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Eyecandy Texture Noise

The tube I used Moon Light Falls (7-1) is by Melissa Dawn, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of my font is FranciscoLucas Briosa

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

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply dc special nylon

I used these settings, you may have to play around depending on your color

Apply graphics plus cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 100

Paste your tube as a new layer

Select around the wings with your magic wand or freehand selection tool

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy texture noise settings on diamond noise

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

Deselect

Using your rectangle shape tool set your foreground to a dark color from your tube

Set the width at 18

Background null

Draw a square around your tube, make it slightly smaller than your tube

Align center

Convert to raster

Using your magic wand click inside your frame

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a lighter shade of your color

Paste your flowers as a new layer

Change layer properties to luminance

Add drop shadow

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow to your frame

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Open your shooting stars in animation shop

Activate frame 1 and select all

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 & paste after current in animation shop

Select all & copy

Activate frame 2

Paste after current

Activate your last frame

Paste after current

Repeat until you have 21 frames

When you start placing them on the right side of your tag, reverse the star frames (shift r)

Activate frame 1 and select all

Grab the star by frame 1 and drop it onto frame 1 of your tag

Go back to your stars

Undo (CTRL Z)

Drag onto your tag again

Repeat this as many times as you want

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