Tutorial and Graphics

©rae

January 17, 2006

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Gradients, Bubble tube, Straw, and the Bug used in the example are

 found in this Folder

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1.   Open a New Canvas - at least 600 X 400 *wider if your text is lengthy

 

 

    

Or ~ use Mountain Dew - other than Cola ** see Crimson's tag at the bottom of this tut!

                                               

                                                 

 

2.  Enter your text. 

If it's wider than your canvas - you can adjust it other than widen your canvas and your final tag. 

 

 

 

 

I tipped mine so that it appears to rest against the edge and shortened the length.  You will want to keep in mind that the straw bottom should remain inside the gradient area ..  the text outline portion is to mimic 'glass'

 

Now is time to make sure you have your vector text just the size you want.  You'll want to be committed by the next step.

3.  At your Text layer  > Open your Magic Wand with these settings ;

 

  

If you are using the Cola gradient :

                    

       

If you are using the Mountain Dew gradient :

**This is optional **   here is the EC 3 zip

If you'd like to add a Glass effect, to the 'Glass' layer, using EyeCandy 3.1 > here are the settings I used :

 

Here are the Before *without Glass :        and After *with Glass/Duplicated/Blend Mode-Multiply :

                

 

4.  Time for Bubbles!

**Because the bubbles are clear and hard to see against your grid - I'll have you make a New Raster layer. 

Open your Picture Tube Tool :

  

 

 

5.  Change the settings at your Picture Tube :

 

**you may want to turn off many layers and pop up the color on your background - so you can see what you're doing

 

 

6.  Your Layer Palette should look like this : *remember I have added a glass effect - so have an extra Glass' layer :

If you're making Mountain Dew  =  try this to make your bubbles pop a bit against the color, if you like :

 

 

 

We're ready to begin making your frames for animation.

Open your Magic Wand with these settings :

  

**I set the Tolerance = High, to grab all bands of the gradient.  If a portion doesn't select - just continue to hold Shift and click into it.  You're only selecting the inside of each letter - not the outline.

 

7.  Open your Mover Tool :

Repeat the above = Moving the large bubbles 5 clicks UP  ..  the small bubbles Shift/1 click UP..  Deleting and Merging, etc. 

8.  Browse to Open and play at Animation Shop.  It should be good to go!  **if you stop here - change the Frame Speed for the animation to 15

I'll add, following, the Bug Burp animation instruction.  If you don't want to add the bug - skip down to Step 12 for the Optimization.

9.  At Animation Shop > Open the 'Bugs.psp image'

Judge whether the bug is on the right angle to place along your straw ..it doesn't have to be Perfect - but if it needs to be adjusted

Begin with a small increment  .. if it needs more > Undo and add a higher increment

 

At your Text Frames :

At your Bugs :

At your Text Frames :

 

 

 

 

 

10.  Now to add Bug-talk 

Grab a frame from your animation..  one with the bug in it - so you'll have a guide image for the text.  I took one with the bug half up the straw :

 

11.  Open your tiny text files at AS

 

12.  Finally!  ..you're ready to sew this puppy up

Edit > Select All :

Consider adding an Opaque background to ease up on the kb's after Optimization

Optimization Wizard > Customize Tab > Colors = Optimized Octree / Nearest Color

                                      Optimizations Tab > I checked everything

Save your optimized tag and show us what you've made!

I do hope you had fun  ..learned a thing or two.. and now we'd love to see your creation

Ü ~rae

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Here is Crimson's Mountain Dew!