Blog Blinkie 4

 

This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 18, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Element of your choice

Plugins

Eyecandy Texture Weave

The name of my font is Honey Script Light

This is a pretty simple one to make

Go ahead & give it a try!  :)

Open a new transparent canvas 300x150, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color, gradient or pattern which will look nice with your blog

Apply eyecandy weave with these settings

Paste your element as a new layer

Duplicate & hide the duplicated layer

Resize it small, I resized mine to 15%

Apply mura meister copies

Preset menu on line, number will depend on the size of your element

I used 11, odd #'s will work better

Position at the bottom of your tag

Duplicate & position at the top

Back to your duplicated element

Resize so it will fit between your lines

Add drop shadow

Copy & paste into animation shop

Effects>insert image effect>Rotate

You'll have 11 frames

Back to psp

Add your blog name, 1 word per layer

Make your font big

I used size 100 with my font

Align center & apply your effects

Activate your rectangle shape tool

Foreground null, background on your text color

Draw out a vertical line as wide as you want, fit between your element lines

Position into place

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

 

Animation:

Hide all your text layers and your main element layer

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Multiply until you have 11 layers

Activate frame 1 and select all

Make sure all the frames of your element are selected & both animations are zoomed to the same size

Grab your element by frame 1 and drop into position on frame 1 of your blinkie

View your animation to make sure all frames have your element

Activate frame 11

Back to psp

Undo your merge

Uhide the 1st word of your blog name & your element

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your 2nd word & unhide your 3rd

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Continue until you have all your blog word frames pasted

I set the text frame properties to 75

Resize to 50%

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

:)