My Blue Eyed Kitty

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Mar 29 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Animation shop

Flower here

Plugins

DSB Flux Bright Noise

The tube I used 54-1 is by Cuddly Rigor Mortis, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of my font is Franklin Cascaes

This tut has 2 animation speeds so it's a little bit difficult

(I finally figured it out after thinking about it for a couple of weeks lol)

If you need any help please feel free to email me, my email blinkie is on your left

Put ATT Sharon and the tut name in the subject line, I get lots of email so this helps me to find it

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a colr from your tube

Add an inner bevel

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 30, mix checked

Paste your flower as a new layer

Resize to 95%

Copy and paste into animation shop

Click on effects>insert image effect

Under effect select rotate colors

Leave everything at default

(If you're gonna animate the eyes then change the effect length to 1.9, this is so you have an even # of frames)

Activate frame 1 & select all

Set aside for now

Back to your psp program

Leave the flower layer there for now so you'll see where's its gonna be on your finished tag

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Position lower left corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Resize to 75%

Position in lower right corner

Change layer properties to soft light

Activate your large tube layer

Using your freehand selection too select around one eye

Hold down your shift key to select the other eye

Duplicate

floodfill with black

(This works because my cat is plain black, if you may need to use another color or the clone tool)

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Copy your closed eye layer into animation shop

Copy your open eye layer & paste after current in animation shop

Paste after current 4 more times

You'll have 6 frames

Leave frame properties at 10 on the closed eye frame

On the open eye frames set the frame properties at 25

Select all

Copy

Activate frame 6

Paste after current

View your animation

Activate frame 1, select all

Set aside for now

Back to your psp program

Copy & paste your bg layer into animation shop

Multiply until you have 12 frames

Activate frame 1 & select all

Set aside for now

Back to your psp program

Hide bg layer

Hide both large tube layers

Hide your flower layer

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Multiply until you have 12 frames

Activate frame 1 and select all

You now have 4 animations, we're gonna put them together now

Activate frame 1 on your bg animation, set frame 1 properties to 10

Set the rest of the frames as follows:

(This is the way they were set on the flower animation)

f1 10, f2 & 3 - 16, f4 & f5 - 17, f6- 16, fr7 & fr 8 - 17, f9 - 16, fr10 & f11 - 17, fr 12 - 16

Make sure your zoom is the same on all 4

Activate frame 1 on your bg & select all

Grab the flower from frame 1 & drag it into place on frame 1 on your tag,V

View your animation

Now for your tube

Grab from the first frame and drag into position on frame 1 of your bg 

(For some reason I had to resize my tube by 75% before doing this)

View your animation

Back to your psp program

Make sure the flower, bg & your large tube layers are hidden

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Duplicate until you have 12 frames

Activate frame 1 and select all

Grab frame 1 of your transparent tag & drag it to frame 1 of your main tag

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just emaail 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