Saturday, April 21, 2012

Strawberry Dreams

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 21, 2012 & is copyright protected
For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed
Scrapkit Strawberry Wine here

Plugins
DC Special Nylon
Graphics Plus Cross Shadow
DSB Flux Bright Noise
Mura Meister Copies

The tube I used Sydney (20-3) is by Nikki Burnette, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Tagettes
I used size 42


Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later
Floodfill with a color from your tube
Apply dc special nylon using default settings
Apply graphics plus cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 80

Paste swirl 1 as a new layer

Paste your tube as a new layer
Resize as needed and add drop shadow
Position in a lower corner

Paste strawberry 2 as a new layer
Resize to 60%
Position at the bottom center
Add drop shadow

Paste strawberry 5 as a new layer
Resize to 40%
Positon on the left side of the basket
Add drop shadow
Duplicate & mirror
Duplicate again & position at the bottom center of the basket

Paste strawberry 3 as a new layer
Resize to 60%
Add drop shadow
Position near your left tube
Duplicate & mirror
Resize to 75%
Reposition near your right tube

Duplicate
Resize to 75%
Position on the left side of the center strawberry 5
Duplicate & mirror

Merge all the strawberries around the basket

Paste strawberry 6 as a new layer
Resize to 40%
Duplicate & hide the original

Resize to 75%
Duplicate & position at the tip of a swirl
Keep duplicating until you have all the swirl ends covered
Merge these layers

Unhide your strawberry
Duplicate
Resize to 60%
Send to top
Hide the original again
Position on top of the basket
Duplicate a few times & arrange

Merge all your strawberry layers except the hidden one but not the basket
Duplicate 2 times
Apply dsb flux bright noise

Unhide your strawberry & send to the top
Apply mura meister copies
Line>number 21

Effects>distortion effects>wave
Use these settings


Move to above your bg layer
Change layer properties to soft light
Add drop shadow

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

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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