White Destiny

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on March 23, 2012

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Frame I made for this tut, if you would like to use it please email me

Photo of your choice

The photo I used is called Mountain Bliss by Jon Rattenbury, you can purchase this photo from PTE here

Plugins

Eyecandy 4 HSB Noise

Xero Fritillary

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

The tube I used White Destiny is by Roman Zaric, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your photo

Apply Xero Fritillary changing the top # to 12 & the bottom # to 8

Apply Graphics Plus Cross Shadow using default settings

Paste frame as a new layer

Resize to 90%

Using your magic wand, click inside the frame, hold down the shift key to click inside small areas on the right

Add a new raster layer

Expand 3

Paste photo into selection

Deselect

Add drop shadow to the frame

Back to the top

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed and position in desired place

I wanted mine to look like he's jumping out of the frame

Add a drop shadow, twice

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Merge your text & name layers

Duplicate 2 times

Apply Eyecandy HSB Noise using default settings

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

Follow the usual steps on merging, copy, pasting into animation shop

If you need instructions here feel free to email me

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 email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

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