Monday, May 14, 2012

Rain Rain

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 14, 2012 & is copyright protected
For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed
Frame I made for this tut here
Butterfly of your choice

Plugins
Xenofex Little Fluffy Clouds
Mura Meister Cloud
Eyecandy Texture Noise
Mura Meister Copies

The tube I used Flower Girl 1-3 is by Marlon Teunissen, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Tamborine


Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later
Floodfill with a color from your tube
Add a new raster layer

Apply xenofex little fluffy clouds
Settings on blue sky
Change coverage to 90
Set the base color to white & the edge color to black
I set the random seed at 6607

Change layer properties to multiply
Merge down & add an inner bevel

Paste your frame as a new layer
Click inside with your magic wand
Expand 5
Floodfill with another color from your tube
Deselect & move to below your frame

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow to your frame

Paste your tube as a new layer
Resize as needed
Add drop shadow

Activate your frame layer
Click inside with your magic wand
Add a new raster layer
Apply mura meister cloud
Preset menu on thin clouds, uncheck bg box
Change layer opacity to 50

Duplicate 2 times
Apply eyecandy texture noise
Settings on heavy rain
Use these settings


Repeat on other 2 layers clicking the random seed button each time
Deselect

Paste your butterfly as a new layer
Resize as needed
Add drop shadow
Rotate if needed
Position on the upper left corner of your frame
Duplicate, mirror & merge down
Duplicate & move to the bottom of your frame
Merge down

Activate your text tool
I used impact size 36
Type the word rain
Align center
Add your effects

Activate your frame floodfill layer
Select all>float>defloat
Back to your text
Apply mura meister copies
Preset menu on tiling
Gap will depend on your font & size, I used 4
Deselect & move to below your frame

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

:)


Result by Kaye W







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