Queen of Diamonds

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 17, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Mura Meister Copies

The tube I used Queen of Diamonds (PTE3583) is by Maxine Gadd, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

The name of my font is Tagettes

I used size 42 & 48

 

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

Floodfill with black

Paste the Q & diamond shape from your tube as a new layer

(If you're using a different tube you can use a fancy font to write the letter Q and your symmectric shape tool to draw a diamond shape)

Select around one & copy

Paste as a new layer

Delete your original Q & shape layer

Duplicate 9 times for 10 layers

From the top rename these layers to animation 1, 2, 3, etc

Activate animation 1

Apply muara meister copies changing the top & third #'s to 60 & the 2nd # to 80 (this will depend on the size of your shape, play around with it), set Phase at 100

Preset menu set to Spiral, shift mode Circle

Activate animation 2

Apply copies decreasing the phase by 10 to 90

change phase to 80 on animation 3

Decrease phase by 10 on each layer

On the last layer the phase # should be 10

Hide all these layers except the top one for now

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide all your animation layers except # 1

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

Keep doing this until you have all 10 frames pasted

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

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