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!
