Redneck Tuts by Savage

Monday, September 5, 2011

I HEART THE BUNNY TUT (PTU)

1:48 PM | Posted by Savage | Edit Post

SUPPLIES NEEDED

TUBE OF CHOICE: I used the fantastic artwork of Alfadesire.

You must have a license to use this art.

You can find this art and get your license HERE.

SCRAPKIT: Rainbow Bright by Grunge and Glitter.

You can find it HERE.

FONT OF CHOICE: I used:

Name: The Blue Cabin

Wordart: That's It!

I used Photoshop for this tut.

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In this tut we'll make hearts fall.

We'll also learn how to make things spin.

If you don't wish to animate, just skip the steps marked *BLUE*

Use my tag as a guide for placement of elements.

Open a canvas 700x700 pixels.

Flood fill with the color of your choice.

Open tagback1.

Resize to 85%.

Center on canvas.

Open clusterframe1.

Center on canvas.

*Duplicate this layer 7 times.

You should now have eight layers.

Hide all layers except 1 & 2.

Leave first layer as is.

Highlight second layer.

Right click on the frame on the canvas.

In the new window, choose Rotate.

Rotate the frame a little clock wise.

I use the flowers as a guide for rotating.

Just rotate the frame so the flowers move a bit up.

Use layer one for a guide for rotating.

That way, you can see how much you have rotated.

Go to the toolbar on the left side of your screen.

Click the arrow (move tool).

When a window comes up,

Click Apply.

Repeat the rotating steps for the rest of the layers.

I hide all the layers except the one I'm working on

and the one directly beneath it.

That way, I can see the progress of rotation.*

Open elementcluster2.

Resize to 70%.

Flip Horizontally.

Open your tube.

Center on canvas.

Open heartscatter1.

Place on right side of tag.

Open halftone2.

Resize to 35%.

I used a Stroke on this.

These are the settings I used.

Color: f2fa0d

Click Ok.

Place a drop shadow on all layers

except the halftone and tagback layers.

Resize your siggy to your liking.

Make three new layers.

We're going to do the wordart now.

I used one layer for each word

so I could position them where I wanted.

Using the font of your choice

Type:

I, the, BUNNY

all on their own layer.

Color: fafb03

Stroke: Outside, 3, Black

Outer Glow:

Click Ok.

Make another new layer.

Type your name on the taggie.

I used the same colors and settings

as the wordart.

MOST IMPORTANT!!

You must now do this:

Put the artist's name, website, and your license number

of the tube you used on the siggy!!

Add your name (ie: Designed by Your Name) behind this info.

Make sure this info is legible and clearly seen.

If you don't want to animate, Save as PNG.

YOU'RE DONE!!

(If you want to maintain your layers

Always Save as PSD first.

Then you can save it as a PNG.

When doing both these steps

It is important to change the title of the tag.

Example:

When I Save as PSD,

I always name the tag what I want.

Then, when saving as a PNG,

I add the number 1 behind the name of the tag.

Like this:

Kiss Me Hard, Save as PSD

Kiss Me Hard1, Save as PNG

Otherwise, your PNG will overwrite your PSD

Merging your tag into one layer only.)

**TO ANIMATE**

Hide all your duplicated clusterframe1 layers

except the first one

in the Layer Palette.

(Should be seven layers that are duplicated.)

Open the Animation Window.

Set the time for .2.

Show all visible layers in the first frame.

Click the square button, next to the trash can,

in the animation window.

This will duplicate the first animation frame.

Go over to your Layer Palette.

Highlight your heartscatter1 layer.

Go over to the canvas and move this down.

Place this where you want your falling hearts to end.

Now go back to your animation window.

Highlight frame 1.

See that icon that looks like a slanted row of squares?

Place your cursor over it.

It will say: Tweens Animation Frames.

Click it.

A new window pops up.

Use these settings:

Click OK.

Now you'll have eight frames of animation.

Go ahead and click Play

to see your falling hearts.

Ok.

Now back to animating the rest of the siggy.

Go to the second animation frame in the animation window.

Highlight it.

Now go to your Layer Palette.

Hide all clusterframe1 layers

except the second one.

Back to animation window.

Highlight the third animation frame.