Frogs & Lilypads

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 6, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Frame, butterfly & Lilypad I made for this tut here

Plugins

Wire Meshings Unlimited

Xero Fritillary

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Tube of your choice.  For the purposes of writing this tut I will assume you're using the same one I used

The tube I used The Frog (T44) is by Toosh Toosh, you can get this tube from Toosh Toosh here

The name of my font is Jungle Juice

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with dark green

Apply wire meshings using default settings

Paste your frame as a new layer

Move to near the top of your tag

Click inside with your magic wand

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a lighter shade of your bg color

Deselect & move to below your frame layer

Apply fritillary changing the top & bottom #'s to 12

Add drop shadow to your frame

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position so his hands are resting on the frame

Paste your lilypad as a new layer

Resize to 75%

Position in lower left corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate

Resize to 75%

Position next to the first one

Merge down

Duplicate 2 times

Apply bright noise intensity 40, mix checked

Repeat on other 2 layers changing the intensity to 45 & 50

Duplicate your frog

Send to the top

Resize to 50%

Position on the left lilypad

Duplicate & resize to 85%

Position in the middle of your lilypads

Duplicate & resize to 90%, mirror & position on the right side of your lilypads

Paste your butterfly as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position on the left center of your frame

Add drop shadow

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Duplicate your bg layer & send to the top

Select all

Contract 10

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & 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

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

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Result by Kaye W