When Pigs Fly

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 13, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Mura Meister Cloud

The tube I used 1-3 is by Shawn McManus, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Wild Script

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a sky blue

Apply texture with these settings

Add an inner bevel

Add a new raster layer

Apply mura mesiter cloud

Preset menu on thin clouds, uncheck the bg box

Change layer opacity to 70

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & resize to 50%

On your original tube change layer properties to soft light

Back to your duplicated layer

Move to the lower left corner

Duplicate & move to lower right corner

Back to your 1st duplicated tube

Duplicate

Activate your pick tool

Increase your position x by 200

Decrease your position y by 125

Duplicate

Increase position x by 200

Decrease position y by 100

Duplicate

Increase position x by 200

Increase position y by 100

You should have 5 of your resized pigs

Deactivate your pick tool

Make sure your right pig is on the top & the left one on the bottom

Rename from the bottom up to ani 1 - ani 5

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation all the resized pigs

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation unhide ani 1

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide ani 1 & unhide ani 2

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Repeat until all your frames are pasted

You should have 6 frames

I set my frame properties at 40

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

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Result by Kaye W