Sunday, June 05, 2011

MODERN GIRL FTU

Written by Gwenda on June 5th 2011
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Freestyle script

Scrapkit by Bluedreams Designs called  I Am a Modern Girl. FTU found

Tube of choice. I used Tenia by Elias Chatzoudis. His work can be found at



Open new canvas 700 x 700 and floodfill white

Frame 1 – Resize 95%. Paste onto canvas. Adjust hue & saturation 245  136.
Duplicate, and on bottom copy go to adjust blur – Gaussian 10
Effects – texture effects – mosaic glass on default settings.
Dropshadow top copy only.

Frame 2 – Resize 95% then 97%. Dropshadow

Make gradient. Foreground #404040  and Background #fddacd 45 degree, 1 repeat.

Click inside frame 2 ( black one ), expand by 8. Layers – new raster layer and fill with gradient. Deselect.
Effects – textures – blinds with settings width 4, opacity 60, colour #cf637f. Horizontal unchecked.
Move above Gaussian layer.

Paste closeup of tube above top frame. Duplicate, and move one above the gradient layer.
Delete excess. Dropshadow top copy.

Phone – Resize 60% free rotate right 15. Sharpen. Dropshadow

Journal2 – Resize 80%. Free rotate left 15%. Sharpen, Dropshadow

Charm2 – Resize 70%. Dropshadow

Star2 – Resize 50%. Duplicate – mirror and move to the left. Dropshadow both

Add copyright.

If you choose not to animate, then add message to your phone and save.

TO ANIMATE:

Outline black screen of phone with selection tool. On palette layer, right click, and select “Promote selection to layer”. Deselect. Rename screen.
Adjust brightness & Contrast 100  5

FG Null, BG White, type message on screen. Convert to raster and free rotate right 15

OK – deep breath, mouthful of coffee . . . .

Open Animation Shop

In Photoshop, close off all layers from the phone up ( including the phone ), and the white background.
Merge visible. Rename “tube & frame layer”.

Close this layer, and re-open others.

Merge together the two stars, the charm and the journal layers, Rename this “top layer”

You should now have 6 layers, starting from the bottom:
White background
Tube & frame
Phone
Screen
Message
Top layer.

Make sure all layers are open.

Edit – copy special – copy merged. Go to Animation Shop and paste as a new animation.

Back in photoshop, carefully erase the LAST letter of your message.

Edit – copy special – copy merged and go back to AS. Paste BEFORE current frame.

Continue to do this until you have a blank screen in photoshop.

Close screen layer, so the black screen on the phone shows,

Edit – copy special – copy merged and go back to AS. Paste BEFORE current frame.

In PSP, open screen layer again and repeat above.

Repeat once more with black screen.

In As, Edit – select all – animation frame properties – display time 8. Click OK

Select Frame 2 -  animation frame properties – display time 30. Click OK
Repeat this step with frame 4

Select Frame 1 - animation frame properties – display time 15. Click OK
Repeat this step with frame 3

Click on last frame ( the one with all the words showing ) and set display time to 100.

Save as a gif, and you’re finished!!

Well done!