Sunday, December 30, 2012

Winter Day




This tutorial was written by me. 
Any similarity is purely coincidental. 
It was done using Gimp and
 was written for those who
 have experience using Gimp. 

Program of choice , I use Gimp
Animation shop 

Mask - DBV xmas Mask 06 Here

tube of choice
I am using the artwork of Sara Butcher 
You need a license to use her work 
You can find her artwork here


snow animation here

I didn't make this animation , it was shared through DLT group on yahoo 
I can't remember who shared it so if its your please let me know so I can give credit where it is due
I really appreciate that it was shared 


Word art , you can use the one I made or make one of your own



Lets begin

New image ,  800 x 800 pixels , white bg ( we will resize later )
New layer, fill with color from your tube 
I used color #23206a, right click and add layer mask (make sure you have black -full transparency marked)
copy and paste your mask
New layer , copy and paste your tube , position as you like it. 
New layer and move it below your tube layer
Add Word art, position as you like it and  resize if you need to. 
add your copyright and license above the tube layer 
Hide your mask layer and bg layer and merge visible layers
Unhide the mask layer and hide the tube layer 


on your mask use your Fuzzy select too inside the snowflake , the marching ants should be a somewhat circle shape
add new layer and duplicate until you have 5 layers that are transparent and make sure you still have your marching ants
Open the animation 
and copy the bg layer and paste Into the first tranparent layer with the marching ants, anchor
go back to your animation and copy the next layer , come back to your tag and past Into the next transparent layer
 with the marching ants
continue this until you have copied and paste Into all the layers of the animation with the transparent layers
Now we are going to duplicate the mask layer until we have 5 of them
we will move them up so that we have a snow layer above a mask layer , snow layer above a mask layer , 
snow layer above a mask layer, when we have all of these layers lined up we will merge down a snow layer to a mask layer , 
merge down a snow layer to a mask layer until we have 5 snow-mask layers

unhide the tube layer and duplicate it until you have 5 tube layers 
we are going to move the tube layers to have them alternating as
tube layer above mask layer , tube layer above mask layer 
when we have them all lined up we will merge down a tube layer to a mask layer ,merge down a tube layer to a mask layer
we should end up with 5 layers 
delete the white bg 
Click your bottom layer , Autocrop Image 
click filters/ animation/ animation playback 
if it plays back ok then you can save as ( be sure you save as ) gif
a box will open and save as animation. 

I take it to animation shop to resize the animation 

Thanks for looking. Would love to see anything you make

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Let It Snow







This tutorial was written by me. 
Any similarity is purely coincidental. 
It was done using Gimp and
 was written for those who
 have experience using Gimp or other programs

Supplies:

font of choice
I used for my name was Wretched

Word art by cupcake sprinkles Here
its old but I checked the link and it works


Template 3 by Caroline for Creative Misfits here

Tube of choice
I am using a tube by Anna Marine . You need a license to use it . You can find her art at CDO and get a license.

Ok lets begin

open the template 
delete the credits layer and wordart  and wordart back layers

Rectangle Back layer add bevel thickness 2 

Alpha to selection on Rectangle layer, fill with color from your tube . I used #79b891
select none

Alpha to selection Pixel words and fill with white
select none
add bevel thickness 2

Large Circle back  layer ,add bevel thickness 2

Alpha to selection Large circle 
Add new layer 
make sure you are on the new layer and copy your tube close up and Paste Into, position and resize if needed , anchor 
Select none. 
blend tool ( make sure your colors are set to black fg and white bg ) overlay tube

Dup tube layer and on the lower tube layer gaussian blur 12
on top tube layer lower opacity to 65 or to your liking

Circle medium back layer, add bevel thickness 2

Circle medium layer , Alpha to selection, fill with color #cde4e7

falling snow left layer, Alpha to Selection and fill with white, select none , add bevel thickness 2 

Snow left layer , Alpha to selection and fill with white

Ornament left layer, add bevel thickness 2

Circle small back , add bevel thickness 2

Circle small , Alpha to selection and fill with ,color #e4d37a

falling snow right layer, Alpha to Selection and fill with white, select none , add bevel thickness 2 

Snow right layer , Alpha to selection and fill with white

Ornament right layer, add bevel thickness 2

click on ornament left and add a new layer, you will now have a new layer above ornament left


open your christmas wordart from cupcake sprinkles and resize to width 350 pixels, add bevel thickness 2 , paste on the new layer
position as you like it. I lined up the bottom of the snowman with the snow on the ornament. 

Add Ds of your choice to elements 
merge visible , scale if needed , I scale to 550 pixels width
add copyright and license number

Add a snow animation if you like , I can't remember who I got my ready made animation from so I can't share.
 It was from somebody at a group I belong to. 






Thursday, December 13, 2012

Holly Angel




tube of choice
the tube I used is Jasmine Becket-Griffith Holly Angel
you must have a license to use it.
You can find the tube and get a license at Creative Design Outlet store here


tag back is Bah Humbug - FTU by Kirstys Scraps here


mask 11 - (1 - 20 )  from HorsePlays Pasture here

font of choice
I used AllureScript


Lets start
open new image 600 x 600 pixels white bg

Add new layer
c/p tag back to center of canvas


Add new layer
c/p your tube and position on tag back a little to the left,  resize if needed


dup your tag back layer and move one of the layers above your tube
decrease opacity so you can see if you like your tube placement .
If it all looks good then use rectangle select tool to make a rectangle around inside of frame .
 I put the bottom of my rectangle at the top of my tubes shoulders. Then click delete. select none
with opacity still low use eraser to remove anything below  you want to remove.
when you are happy  with it return opacity to 100

ds default 8/8/15/80 the tube
ds 3/4/8/38 the bottom layer tagback

merge and autocrop layer
scale layer to 550 width

Add new layer above bg layer
fill with black or color of your choice. On this layer , right click, add layer mask
c/p mask 11 , resize to 550 , anchor
hide bg
merge visible layers , autocrop layer
resize to 550 if needed
new layer
add copyright and license #
delete bg layer and autocrop image
resize as needed


I would love to see anything you make with this tutorial. You can email me at cindydaisylover@gmail.com