A Peaceful Embrace

Click the Sig To View Full Size

A Peaceful Embrace
This tutorial was written by Eve on July 26th, 2009 Using my own imagination. You may use my tutorials forgroup challenges. Please a provide a link back to this site.

Supplies Needed:
Gorgeous Kit by A Taggers Scrap called Peace which you can find Here
Image of choice or the one I used by the Artist Suzanne Woolcott which I purchased over at AMI and is now available Here
Font and Mask of Choice
Animation Shop to add the animation
Sand (Do Not Use In Another Tutorial Without My Consent Please) Here

Ready? Let's Begin by opening a New 620 x 450 Canvas and Flood Filling it White
(You can resize later if you want)

1- Open the Fish Frame - Copy and Paste it over

2- With your Magic Wand click inside the Fish Frame - Selections - Modify - Expand by 3

3- Open your Image - Copy and Paste it over - Selections - Invert - Delete - Move this layer below the Fish Frame layer -
Add a Drop Shadow to the Frame Layer

4- Click on the Image Layer - Open a New Layer - Go to Effects - Artist Effects - Balls and Bubbles - Click on Materials -
change the Settings to - Layer H 1 - V 1 - H 100 - V 0 - Click Ok - Now change the settings to
O 6 - SH 27 - G 25 - You should see a huge Bubble that looks like a lens over the Image - Move the Bubble Downwards and
to the Left - See mine - Erase the excess with your Eraser Tool - Duplicate - Image - Mirror - Image - Flip - And postion it so that
the glare is at the bottom right of the frame - See mine - Add some light Noise to each Bubble Layer - See mine again

5- Open Beads - Resize it a little - Copy and Paste it over - Place on the middle top of the frame - See mine - Add A Drop Shadow -
With your Eraser Tools - Erase some of the ends - See mine again

6- Open Shell 7 - Resize it a little - Copy and Paste it over - Colorize it by going to -Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize -
Change the Settings to H 133 - S 161 - Image - Free Rotate - Left 25 - Add a Drop Shadow - Place on the Tail of Fish Frame - See mine

7- Open Shell 6 - Resize it a little - Copy and Paste it over - Image - Flip - Place to the left side of the frame - See mine - Add
a Drop Shadow

8- Go back to Shell 7 - Resize it some more - Place on top of Shell 7 - See mine - Add a Drop Shadow - Duplicate - Place to
the Left hand side of Shell 6 and move this Layer Down - See mine

9- Open Shell 9 - Resize it - Copy and Paste it over - Colorize it by going to - Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize
Change the Settings to H 133 - S 35 - Add a Drop Shadow

10 - Open Shell 4 - Resize it - Copy and Paste it over - Colorize it by going to - Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize -
Change the Settings to - H 101 - S 26 - Add a Drop Shadow and Move this Layer Below Shell 3 - See mine

11- Open Grass - Copy and Paste it over - Move this Layer Below the Frame Layer and Position to the Right - See mine
Add a Drop Shadow - Duplicate - Move this Layer to the Left side of the Frame - See mine - Erase any excess with your Eraser Tool

12 - Go back to the Grass - Resize it some more - See mine - Copy and Paste it over - Add a Drop Shadow - Move this Layer below
Shell 4 - Duplicate - Move this Layer below Shell 6

13- Open Bow 13 - Resize it a little - Image - Free Rotate - Left 25 - Add a Drop Shadow

14 - Open Bird 2 - Image - Mirror - Resize it - Copy and Paste it over - Place to the right of the Frame - See mine - Add a Drop Shadow

15- Open the Sand - Copy and Past it over - Place to the Bottom of the Frame - See mine

16- Click on your White Background Layer - Open a new Layer - Choose a color from the kit or the tube - Flood Fill this Layer with the
color you chose - Find your Mask of Choice - and Load it - Merge Group

17 - and the © and Name If you are not gonna animate - delete the White Background if you wanna save it as PNG if not just merge visible
If you are gonna animate it follow the next steps

18 - Merge all visible - Copy and Paste your sig to Animation Shop

19 - Open the Animation - Duplicate your Sig the same amount as the Animation in this case Duplicate it so that you have a total of
24 Frames

20- Go to your animation - Edit - Select All - Copy

21- Go back to your sig - Edit - Select All - Paste - Do this same step 3 times - See mine

22- View your animation - If you're happy with it - Optomize it - View once more - and Save

Phew! You're Done! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Until Next Time! =0)