Sprinkle Me With Fairydust

(wing animation not included)

I wrote this tut using PSPX2 and Animation Shop 3.

This tut is written for those with a working knowledge of PSP and AS3.

I am using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You must have a license to use his work and you can purchase his work and get your license at PTE

 I am using another gorgeous kit by Tamie called Kayla and you can purchase it at Dreams-N-Digital

The Mask I am using is, again, one of my first, you may use another mask of your choice or you can use this one.  I am having trouble uploading it to MediaFire so you can just right click on it and save it

Plug-ins Used:

dsb flux / Bright Noise

Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow

Xenofex 2 / Constellation

Tramages / Tow The Line

Font Used:

Fairydust

This one is going to be fairly simple, compared to my last few.

**c&p=Copy and Paste As New Layer (I always c&p as a top layer so I can see what I’m doing, then arrange the layer where I want it)

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

Remember to save often!!

Open New Image (File>New) Width: 900, Height 750

This will give us a little working room, you can crop and resize later

Flood Fill with white and name it Background

 We are going to get the tube, CU, and Frame in position first

Tube & CU: c&p both, Mirror the CU, Activate the main tube and, with your Pick Tool, change Position X to: 449 and Position Y to: 109 (you might want to reduce the opacity, while we work around the frame)

From Tamies Kit:

Activate your CU layer

Frame3: c&p, resize 80%, grab your pick tool and just change Position X to: 110 and Position Y to: 157

Resize the CU by 110%, position to liking within the frame, Duplicate, change the Blend Mode on the 1^st CU layer to Luminance (L) and reduce Opacity to 46% 

Activate the 2^nd CU Layer and apply Xero / Radiance with the default settings and reduce Opacity to 63%

Activate your frame layer and, with your Magic Wand, click inside the frame, Expand by 2, Invert Selection, Activate the 1^st CU layer and hit Delete on your keyboard, repeat on the 2^nd CU layer.

DO NOT SELECT>NONE

Activate your background layer, c&p a paper of your choice (I used p11) hit Delete on your keyboard, Duplicate, Invert Selection and apply Tow The Line, to the 2^nd paper layer, with these settings

With your selection still active, Mirror.  Your mirrored heart is now floating; Select>None

We now have a hard line at the bottom her jaw bone

Grab your Eraser with these settings

And go along the line and just soften it up like this

I also reduced my Eraser size and erased the lines on the eyelid and down the side of the nose.

Merge this layer down onto the 1^st paper layer and then Merge Down the 1^st CU, followed by the 2^nd CU.  Make sure you follow this order.

Glitter: c&p, Resize 130%, position to liking, mine is at Position X: 66, Position Y: 70, Duplicate, activate the 1^st layer and apply Gradient Glow with these settings

Décor: c&p, Rotate 150^o Left, position to liking and arrange just above the 2^nd glitter layer, Duplicate, Mirror and position in to the other side of the frame.  Once you are satisfied with the positioning, merge these 2 layers together and apply Gradient Glow with these settings, Color: #783f6c

Flowers2: c&p, Resize 65%, position to liking at the top of the frame and arrange the layer above the décor layers, Duplicate, Mirror and position

Heartbeads: c&p, Resize 70%, position to liking, arrange layer above the heart frame

Beads: c&p, Resize 80%, Mirror, position to liking and arrange above heartbeads.

Pearlsonstring: c&p, Resize 80%, position to liking and arrange above Beads

Berries: c&p, Resize 60%, Rotate 35^o Left, position at bottom left of frame, arrange above pearlsonstring, duplicate and position on bottom right of frame.

Flowers: c&p, Erase stem, Resize 50%, Flip, Mirror, Rotate 15^o Left, position and arrange over the berries at bottom left of frame.

Apply Brightness/Contrast with these settings

Duplicate, Mirror, position at right side of frame

Rose: c&p, Resize 60%, arrange above the Flowers layers and position at the bottom center of the frame

Butterfly2: c&p, Mirror, Resize 60%, position to liking and arrange above the rose layer

If you reduced the opacity of the main tube, return it to 100% now

Sparkles: c&p, position over your elements on the left, Duplicate and position over the main tube across the legs and up to wings

I erased the sparkles that overlap and a few more here and there.  Anything that is over the white background is not going to show, so don’t worry about that…once you are satisfied with your sparkles. Merge the 2 layers together

(we are going to apply constellation to the sparkles)

Name:

Set your Foreground color to #95237e, and your Background to #da54a9, then go into your Materials options, click on the Gradient tab and choose Foreground/Background Gradient.  Use the settings I have here and then click on your Edit Box.  

On the top slide bar, from left to right, slide your 1^st color to 8% (there is a location box right there that will tell you where you are at).  On the far right, slide that color to the left to 73%.  Now, add a new color by clicking right below the slide bar and slide that color all the way down to 100%.  Click on the color box that is right below the location box and change that color to #f4b3d1.  You will need to save it and name it (I exported mine but it still uses the colors that you have in your foreground and background…hmmmmm)

I also chose Bold for my font

Type out your name, click on apply, Convert to Raster and Duplicate

Activate the 1^st name layer; apply Gradient Glow with these settings

I also added a Drop Shadow with these settings

Activate your background layer and open New Raster Layer, flood fill with a color from your design

Open my mask and minimize.  Right click on the new flood filled layer and scroll up to New Mask Layer>From Image, choose your mask from the drop down menu

Your mask layer should be the one that is active, in the group.  Keep this layer active and use your pick tool, set to Scale, to adjust the mask to your liking.

Now that we have the basics of our design all put together, find a good place to add the copyright and your license number.  I suggest that you position it in a manner that it cannot be removed or tampered with, without being obvious. 

Arrange the layer so that it can be merged with the non-animated layers; we are going to animate the glitter, sparkles and name layers Merge together all the non-animated layers that are in between the animated layers

Your Layers Palette should look like this

Lets Start Animating

Activate the 2^nd glitter layer (the 1^st one, with the Gradient Glow, should be merged down onto the background), Duplicate3X

Activate the 1^st layer and apply Constellation with these settings

Repeat on the 2^nd through the 4^th layers, clicking on Random seed for each new layer

Activate the sparkles layer, Duplicate 3X, activate the 1^st layer and apply Constellation with these settings

Repeat on the 2^nd through the 4^th layers, clicking on Random seed for each new layer

Activate the 2^nd name layer (the 1^st one with the Gradient Glow, should be merged down with the non-animated layer), Duplicate 3X, activate the 1^st layer and apply Bright Noise with these settings

Repeat on the 2^nd through the 4^th layers, clicking on Mix 2X for each new layer

Activate your 1^st background layer (the very bottom layer in your layers palette), right click, View>Current Only

Now, Duplicate your non-animated layers 3X, so that you have 4 layers of every group.  Make ONLY the 1^st layer of each group visible, right click on your visible background layer, Merge>Merge Visible. 

Make this merged layer invisible and make the next layer in each group visible, right click on your visible background layer, Merge>Merge Visible make this layer invisible and continue to repeat these steps for the next 2 groups of layers

View>All, Crop, Resize to your liking and save as a .psd or .psp (animation shop)…I always save as a .psd

If you are saving as a WWO, you know what to do…if you don’t, refer back to one of my earlier tuts

Animation Shop 3

Open your image in AS3, Select>All (Ctrl+A), Frame Properties (Alt+Enter) and change the value to 13, hit Enter on the keyboard.  and Optimize (Shift+Z)

Now see…wasn’t that one a lot more quick and easy??

I would love to see your version or results of my tut and would like to add them to my blog.  Feel free to email them to me; just make sure that you put “tut results” or something to that effect, in the subject or I will delete it without opening it

©X's & O's Dzynz and Tutorials

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

In Your Dreams (PTU)

I wrote this tutorial using PSPX2 and Animation Shop 3

I am using a beautiful tube by Jose Cano.  You must have a license to use his art and you can purchase his art at PTE

I am using a gorgeous kit called Dreaming from Designs by Sarah and you can purchase it at Pimp My Tags W/Scraps

Mask used is MC_Mask3 by Melissaz Creationz

My supplies can be snagged here

Plug-ins Used:

Xenofex2 / Constellation

dsb flux / Bright Noise

Font Used:

Marela

Remember to save often!!

**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…and so on, working from the bottom up. 

Let’s Get To it

Open my word art and Resize Canvas (Image>Canvas Size) to 850 X 850

And choose the top middle for placement, like this

Set 2 guides, 1 vertical guide at 206 and 1 horizontal guide at 158 and move your word art down to that position, like this

Open New Raster Layer, arrange it at the bottom and Flood Fill with white

CU: c&p

sb_pmt_frame1: c&p, resize 90%, Duplicate your frame and immediately lock these 2 layers to together.  Arrange one of the frames below the CU layer and position the CU to your liking, lock the CU to your frames.

Activate the CU layer. Grab you Lasso tool with these settings

and select this part of your CU

Hit Delete on your keyboard. Select>None

Activate the CU, Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat

Activate the 2^nd frame and erase only the parts of the frame that cover her head and hair

Activate your 2^nd frame layer, reduce the Opacity enough that you can see the CU and eraser the rest of the frame that is NOT covering your cut off on your CU, return the Opacity to 100%

Activate the 1^st frame layer and, with your Magic Wand at these settings

Click inside your frame, Expand your selection by 2 (Selections>Modify>Expand), Select>Invert

Activate the white background, c&p a paper of your choice (I used sb_pmt_dreaming_pp12), Duplicate, activate your 2^nd paper layer, position to liking, hit Delete on the keyboard, Select>None

Activate the 2^nd paper layer, resize 115%, name it Mask; open your mask, Minimize, right click on the Mask layer, in the layers palette and scroll up to New Mask Layer>From Image, choose your mask from the drop down menu

Your mask is automatically the active layer in the group, grab your pick tool, set to Scale, and use it to bring your mask in to your liking.  Right click on a layer in the Mask Group and select Merge>Merge Group. I moved my mask down a little, after I merged it.

Duplicate, merge the 2 layers together, duplicate again.  Activate the 2^nd mask layer and apply Gaussian blur (Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur) set at 3. Reduce opacity of 1^st mask layer to 70%,  merge these 2 layers together and name the layer Mask.

sb_pmt_flower 4: c&p, resize 70%, mirror arrange layer below CU and position to liking.  

Activate the layer below the flower and open New Raster Layer and flood fill with black (this is so we can see all the white sparkles)

 Activate the flower layer and grab your Lasso, using the same settings,

 select the white sparkles coming out of the flower, like this

right click on the layer in the Layers Palette and select Promote Selection To Layer, name this layer Flower Sparkles (we are going to animate this one) and lock it to the flower layer.  I added Drop Shadows to the flower but NOT the sparkles

sb_pmt_dreaming-flower 11: c&p, resize 80%, arrange below CU/Shadow

sb_pmt_flower 7: c&p, Resize 60%, position to liking and arrange above flower 11

 

sb_pmt_dreaming-bow 1: c&p, resize 75%, position to the right, arrange above flower 7

sb_pmt_butterfly 2; c&p, position at bottom left, grab your Lasso tool, same settings

and select these 2 butterflies

Edit>Cut, DO NOT SELECT NONE, open New Raster Layer, Edit>Paste Into Selection, Select>None, Rotate 45^o Right.

Activate the original layer of butterflies and Rotate 15^o Right.  Keep these layers at the top; you may want to lock them together to ensure that they don’t accidentally get moved

I also copied and pasted each of the top 2 butterflies on separate layers, mirrored the larger one and positioned both on the right.

I added a Drop Shadow of Vertical and Horizontal both set on 6, Opacity at 40%, Blur at 8; again with the Vertical and Horizontal both set to -1, Opacity to 50 , Blur 3

sb_pmt_dreaming-butterfly 6: c&p, mirror, resize 60%, position near top of flower 11 arrange the layer to just above the flower sparkles layer (I erased some of the vine at the top of flower 11)

name this layer butterfly1, select area the around body and legs with you’re your Magic Wand, same settings,

So you have something that looks like this

Select>Invert, Duplicate, name this layer butterfly2

Grab the Warp Brush Tool, found here

And change to these settings

Manipulate the wings in on both sides.  Tick the check mark, if you are happy with your positioning and the red “X” to undo it all and start over. 

Duplicate this layer, name it butterfly3, repeat the same steps as above, trying to get the same amount of space between the wings.  You will need to reduce your brush size (I reduced to 46), so that you are not pushing the wings on the other side at the same time; you just have to work your way down the wing that you are working on.

Duplicate butterfly2, arrange layer above butterfly3 and name it butterfly4, lock these 4 layers together.

This is how my first 2 layers look

This is how my 3 layers look

And, of course, your 4^th layer is just a duplicate of the 2nd

***You can check your butterfly animation, before moving on, by duplicating your image (Shift+D), right click in the Layers Palette and select View>All, make your butterfly layers invisible.  Right click on a visible layer in your Layers Palette and select Merge>All, right click on the merged layer and select Delete; right click on a butterfly layer and select View>All, Crop and save a .psd draft.  Open in AS3 and Select>All (Ctrl+A), change frame timing to 13 (Alt+Enter), View>Animation

Sb_pmt_dreaming-light 2: c&p, resize 75%, position to your liking to the right, arrange just above the mask layer, Duplicate, Mirror, Flip, position to liking, at the top left…I duplicated each layer again and flipped and mirrored, and positioned at the bottom of my image, erasing a few that I didn’t want.  Merge these layers together and name the layer dreaming lights

Tag: Open my tag, c&p, Resize to your liking (I went with 73%), position to liking arrange below the butterflies

Name: Set your Foreground to #062e72, Background to #81dede, Type name click on apply, Rotate 90^o Left, position over tag, you can now adjust the font size to fit the tag (just position your text tool over the text til you see this symbol [A] and click on it.  Your text box will open up with the name already highlighted) once you have the size you want and positioned where you want it, name it name vector, Duplicate, hide the vector, Convert the Duplicate to a Raster

Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, apply Xero / Soft Vignette with these settings

DO NOT SELECT NONE

Apply Brightness and Contrast with these settings

Now, go to Selection Borders (Selections>Modify>Select Selection Borders)

Use these settings

Open New Raster Layer and Flood Fill the selection with your Foreground color from above, Select>None, apply a Drop Shadow with these settings

Name this layer Name Outline

Apply Drop Shadows to your liking

Now that we have our design together, find a good place to add the copyright info.  I suggest that you position it in a place that it cannot be removed or tampered with, without being obvious.

Animation

We already have the butterfly animated; we are going to animate the name, dreaming light, word art and flower sparkles.

Merge together all layers in between these layers, including the backgrounds and any Drop Shadows, there are some layers that can be arranged to merge with other layers to give you less layers to have to work with; I arranged flower_4 just above flower_7, leaving the sparkles where they are

Let’s start with the flower sparkles and dreaming lights

Activate your flower sparkles layer and Duplicate 3X

Activate the 1^st layer and apply Constellation with these settings

Clicking on Random seed for layers 2-4

Activate the dreaming lights layer and Duplicate 3X

Activate the 1^st layer and apply Constellation with these settings

Clicking on Random seed for layers 2-4

Activate the “In Your Dreams” layer, Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, Merge Down on to the merged layer below it and Duplicate3X

Activate the 1^st layer and apply Bright Noise with these settings

Clicking on Mix 2X for layers 2-4

Select>None

Arrange the name layer just above the merged layer with the tag, Select>All, Select>Float, Select>Defloat, Merge Down, Duplicate 3X, activate the 1^st layer apply Bright Noise using the same settings and following the same steps as with the word art.

Duplicate the name outline 3X

Duplicate the white background 3X, right click on the 1^st background layer and select View>Current Only,

Now, make ONLY the 1^st layer of each group visible, right click on your visible background layer, Merge>Merge Visible. 

Make this layer invisible and make the next layer in each group visible, right click on your visible background layer, Merge>Merge Visible make this layer invisible and continue to repeat these steps until you have all of your layers merged.  Right click in your Layers Palette and select View>All, Crop, resize to your liking and save as a .psd or .psp (animation shop)…I always save as a .psd to open in AS3 and I also save a .psp (pspimage) so that I have my settings for the name.

Animation Shop 3

Open your image in AS3, Select>All (Ctrl+A), Frame Properties (Alt+Enter)=13, Optimize (Shift+Z)

And there you have it…we are done

I would love to see your version or results of my tut and would like to add them to my blog.  Feel free to email them to me; just make sure that you put “tut results” or something to that effect, in the subject or I will delete it without opening it

©X's & O's Dzynz and Tutorials

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