Story Time

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 19, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Rainbow here

Plugins

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

DSB Flux Bright Noise

The tube I used Girl 4 (12-3) is by Jamie Kidd, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of my font is Crayon E

I used size 60

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Add texture>letters>depth 2

Duplicate 2 times

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

Repeat on other 2 layers changing the 2 bottoms #'s to 90 & 80

Rename these layers to animation 1, 2 & 3

Paste your rainbow as a new layer

Flip & position in lower left corner

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Duplicate, flip & merge down

Merge down again

Change layer properties to luminance

Add drop shadow

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 35, mix checked

Paste your main tube, close up & cat as new layers

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position as shown on my tag

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a darker shade of your color

Select all

Contract 12

Delete & deselect

Add inner bevel & drop shadow

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 50, mix checked

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

I set my frame properties at 15

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