Sweet Seduction (PTU)

I wrote this tutorial using PSPX2 and Animation Shop3

I am using a gorgeous tube by Ismael Rac; you must have a license to use his art work. Unfortunately this tube is no longer available but you can find many others at his site here

I am addicted to Tamie’s kits and the one I am using definitely live up to its name, Lovely, and you can purchase it at Dreams-N-Digital

Mask is by Tonya and it is called TonyaGrunge1-vi; it is in the Grunge mask pack at Creative Misfits

Plugin used:

Xenofex 2 / Contellation

Font used:

Black Swan

**c&p=Copy and Paste As New Layer

**When working with duplicate layers, I always refer to them as 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd…from the bottom up

Open New Raster 750 X 750, Transparent

Flood Fill with white

p12: c&p, resize 107%

Open your mask and minimize.  Right click on your paper layer and select New Mask Layer>From Image

With your mask layer still activated, use your pick tool to bring the edges in a bit on all sides.  Right click, Merge>Merge Group

Frame: c&p, resize 90%, using your lasso set on add, select the parts of the bow that are sticking out from the main part of the frame and hit delete on the keyboard.  (don’t worry about a clean cut, we are going to put a flower over it;)

Tube: c&p, Mirror, Resize to your liking (I resized mine by 85%) position to liking

Frame Background

Activate your mask layer, c&p p9, c&p 912, Rotate 55^o Right; c&p eyeletribbon, Rotate 55^o Right, Resize 65%; postion the eyeletribbon to liking, line up the edge or p12 in the middle of the ribbon, Sparkles2:c&p move to one side, within the frame, Duplicate, Mirror and position to liking, Merge Down.

Activate your frame layer and, with your magic wand, click in the transparent center, expand selection by 2 and Invert.  Activate thespakles layer and hit Delete on the keyboard and repeat for the eyeletribbon layer and both of the paper layers, Select None

Décor: c&p, position to one side of the frame, Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Brighnesss/Contrast>  Brightness: 25, Contrast 20, Duplicate, Mirror, and Position

Butterfly 75%

Roses: c&p, position at the bottom of your frame

Flower4: c&p, Desaturate

 Manual Color Correction Source: #dcdcdc, Target: #dcdcdc,

Duplicate 2X; Resize 1^st layer 50%, 2^nd layer 40% and 3^rd layer 30%.

Arrange your 1^st one below your tube layer and position behind elbow, or over the area that we cut the bow off of;  Mirror your 2^nd layer and position to your liking; Arrange the 3^rd layer above the roses layer, if it isn’t already there, and position to the left of the roses, Duplicate and Mirror

Doodle: Rotate 45^o Right, Resize 80%, arrange just above your mask layer and position to the top right of the frame

Diamonds: c&p position to one side, Duplicate, Mirror and Flip, I erased some of  the diamonds and copied and pasted others til I had what I wanted and then merged my diamonds layers together.  I added a dope shadow to them to make them stand out a little more...this is the only layer that we are going to animate so you want to make sure that your shadow is on a new layer…this is the shadow settings that I used

Name:  Type out the name, Duplicate and hide the first name layer and Convert the 2^nd name layer to a Raster.  Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, Expand Selection by 2.  Open a New Raster Layer below your name layer and flood fill with white.  Select the name layer again and add a Drop Shadow to it with these settings

Add the copyright and your license number and any other credits.

Add Drop Shadows to your liking

Merge all the layers below your diamonds layer and all the layers above your diamonds layer (not including the name layers if you are saving as a WWO)

Duplicate these layer 2X so that you have 3 groups of 3 layers

Activate your first diamond layer and, using your Magic Wand with these settings

Select your diamonds and apply Constellation with these settings

Clicking on Random seed for the 2^nd and 3^rd layers

Change your magic wand settings to these

And select random areas of the small butterflies and apply Constellation with these settings

Clicking on Random seed for the 2^nd and 3^rd layers

I decided it looked off balance so I went back and selected random areas around the top of the image with the same settings with my Magic Wand and applied Constellation with the same settings and following the same steps as before.

This is where I crop it and save as a .psp for WWO’s

Merge your name layers and corresponding Drop Shadows and Duplicate 2X and Merge Down onto each of your images.

Resize to your liking.  Save as a .psd or a .psp(animation shop) and open in Animation Shop 3 or copy your 1^st layer and Paste As New Animation, in AS3, Copy your second layer and Paste After Current Frame and repeat for the 3^rd layer.

Select All (Ctrl+A), Frame Properties (Alt+Enter)=13, Optimize (Shift+Z)

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This Tutorial was written in April, 2011 by me, MsGoddess2U, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
See my TOU for further details