This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Kirsty on 11th February 2010
This is my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Under no uncertain terms are you allowed to make money from anything produced from this tut, this is against my TOU
For this tutorial you will need:
A Tube of your choice I am using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you must have a license to use you can get one at PTE
*Please note I purchased my tube from MPT*
Paper and Elements are from a scrap kit called A Love so Sweet by Kristi W, which you can purchase HERE
Lokas - Aqua plugin, which you can download from HERE
Mask, Roses and Animation, if these are your please let me know so I can give the appropriate credit
You can get the supplies, which include the Mask, Roses and Animation HERE
Open up a paper and the mask, duplicate the paper and resize it to 600 x 600
Masks / New / From Image and select the paper from the dropdown menu
Masks / Delete and click yes to the little popup window
Now you can close down the original mask
Duplicate your layer
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Give your image a slight dropshadow and then close down the original mask
Image / Canvas Size / 650 x 620 dont worry we will crop later
Open up the circle frame (frame3) copy and paste this as a new layer and resize by 85%
Selections / Select All
Selections / Float
Selections / DeFloat and apply the Lokas Aqua settings below
Selections / Select None and give your frame a nice healthy dropshadow
Open up your tube, copy and paste this as a new layer and resize if needed, I resized mine by 80% and place this to the right hand side of the frame
Duplicate your tube layer and drag this underneath the frame layer
In your layer pallet highlight your top tube layer in your layer pallet and lower the opacity of this layer until you can see the frame through it
Using your lasso tool cut away a part of your tube that is overlapping the frame, once your happy bring the opacity back up to 100
Then in your layer pallet highlight your bottom tube layer and give this a dropshadow of your liking
In your layer pallet cross out your bottom mask layer
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible and leave your mask layer crossed out
Now open up the roses, copy and paste these as a new layer and resize these with percentage of original ticked, to width 120 and then give these a nice healthy dropshadow
Drag these underneath your merged frame layer and place to the left hand side so that you can see some of the roses outside of the frame
Once your happy duplicate this layer and then mirror and flip, this might need moving slightly
In your layer pallet cross out your tube/frame layer
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Now uncross your tube/frame layer
In your layer pallet highlight the roses layer, now using your lasso tool click on top of the frame going all the way around, when your ants are floating hit your delete key
Selections / Select None
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Open up the ivy and resize this by 60%, copy and paste this as a new layer and place to the left hand side on top of the frame, rotate it slightly, I used the deformation tool for this
Once your happy give it a nice healthy dropshadow
Duplicate this layer and then mirror, then move this over to the left hand side
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Now open up the gorgeous beads and resize these by 50%, then copy and paste these as a new layer and place to the bottom left hand corner of your image, once your happy give these a dropshadow of your liking
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Open up the little white flower and resize this by 20% and give this a dropshadow
Copy this and then on your image, paste as a new selection and place this on top of the ivy, repeat this 5 or 6 times, placing them up and down the ivy
Selections / Select None
Add a new raster layer and add your name and copyright
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Now you can uncross your bottom mask layer
Now select your preset shape tool, set to eclipse with antalias and create as vector ticked
Now with your stroke colour of your choice and fill colour crossed out, draw a circle over the top of your frame
once your happy convert it to a raster layer, heres a screen shot of mine to show you
In your layer pallet rename this layer CIRCLE
You should now have 3 layers, your bottom mask, CIRCLE and your top tube/frame etc layer
Crop your image
Now for the fun part
In AS open up the animation
Edit / Select All
Animation / Cull Animation and put 2 in the little box and click ok, this will take your animation down to 12 frames
Click on the first frame
Edit / Select All
Edit / Copy
Then over in PSP, right click anywhere on your empty canvas and paste AS animation as multiple images, this will paste all the frames seperatley
Now on your main image, in your layer pallet make sure that your CIRCLE layer is highlighted
Using your magic wand click inside the circle
While your ants are marching, select your flood fill tool and change it to patterns and your animation should be in there, in seperate images, I have made a screen shot to show you
*Please note that your image numbers might be different depending on what you have open in psp*
Now click on your first animation image, so mine woud be #4 and then flood fill your marching circle
Selections / Select None
Edit / Copy Merged
Over in AS paste as a new animation
