Love Sick Duck

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

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Eyecandy Texture Weave

The tubes I used Love Struck Duck & Chick are FTU by Mrs Homer Lynn, you can get these tubes from her blog here

The name of my font is Dynalight

I used size 60

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

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply eyecandy weave

Settings>plain distorted smeared dark shadows

Basic>pattern twill>gap width 5, keep original image checked

Paste your duck tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position at the bottom of your tag

Paste your chick as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position in a lower corner

Duplicate & resize to 50%

Position in opposite corner

Duplicate

Activate your pick tool

Decrease your x position by 100

Repeat this until you have 8 little chicks

Starting with the 2nd one from the right decrease your y position by 20

Repeat this on # 4, 6 & 8

Hide all except the bottom one

Starting from the bottom one rename the layers to 1, 2, 3, etc

Starting with # 8

Duplicate & mirror

Rename to 15

Duplicate & mirror & 7

Rename to 14

Move to below # 15

Duplicate & mirror # 6

Rename to 13

Move to below # 14

Duplicate & mirror # 5

Rename to 12 & move to below # 13

Repeat this until all but # 1 is duplicated

Do NOT duplicate & mirror # 1

You should now have 15 little chick layers

Duplicate your bg layer & send to 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 all your chick layers except #1

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide # 1 & unhide # 2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide # 2 & unhide # 3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until all 15 frames are pasted

I set my frame properties at 35

On frames 1 & 9 I changed the frame propterties to 100

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

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Result by Kaye W