In The Dog House

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 2, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Dog House I made for this tut here

Plugins

Xero Fritillary

Mura Meister Copies

The tube I used Chinese Crested is by Ann Fesenko, you can get this tube from PFD here

The name of my font is Lyonesse

I used size 60

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

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

Paste your dog house as a new layer

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & hide original

Move to the bottom edge of your tag

Duplicate

Resize to 75%

Position next to your original dog house

Duplicate & mirror

Merge the dog house layers

Unhide your dog house & send to top

Resize to 10%

Rename layer to spiral

Duplicate 9 times

Apply mura meister copies with these settings

Repeat on your other 9 spiral layers decreasing the phase by 10 each time

The phase should be 10 on your last layer

Hide all these except the top one

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Psoition between 2 dog houses

Duplicate

Resize to 75%

Position opposite your original tube

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Make sure all your spiral layers are hidden except the top one

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your top spiral layer & unhide the 2nd one

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until you have all 10 frames pasted

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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Result by Kaye W