Spring Garden

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

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Butterfly, Flower & Pattern here

A Photo

The photo I used is called April Garden and is by Judy mastrangelo, you can purchase this photo at PTE here

Plugins

Eyecandy Texture Noise

DSB Flux Bright Noise

The tube I used Daylight Dance is by Judy Mastrangelo, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

The font I used is called FranciscoLucas Briosa

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

For the smaller words I used size 30

Open a new transparent canvas 800x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with your pattern

Duplicate

Select all

Contract 15

Delete & deselect

Add inner bevel & drop shadow

Paste photo as a new layer

Resize if needed

Add drop shadow

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

positon in a lower corner

Add drop shadow

Activate your rectangel shape tool

Foreground on your pattern, background null

Width 28

Draw a rectangle around your photo

convert to raster

Add inner bevel & drop shadow

Paste flower as a new layer

Resize to 35%

Position on a corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Duplicate & flip

Merge down

Paste butterfly as a new layer

Resize to 35%

Add drop shadow

Position at the top center of your frame

Duplicate

Positon at the center bottom of your frame

Duplicate

Position at the center left of your frame

Duplicate & mirror

Merge these layers

Merge with your flower layer

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy texture noise crinkle

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

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Change your font to a smaller size

Add the words Spring & Garden

Add inner bevel & drop shadow

Rotate some of them

I rotated left & right 20

Positon in different areas of your tag

Merge all your text layers except the © layer

Duplicate 2 times

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 50, mix checked

Repeat on the other 2 layers changing the intensity to 55 & 60

Animation:

Hide middle & bottom animation layers

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide the top animation layers & unhide the middle ones

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide hide your middle animation layers & unhide the bottom ones

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

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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