High Maintenance

High Maintenance

written 7/8/2015

Supplies Needed:

Tube of your choice. I am using a tube by Jose Cano that I got at MPT but you can now purchase his tubes at http://canotubes.com/ You will want to use a tube with a close up preferably.

Scrapkit is a freebie by TK Dezigns. It's called High Maintenance. Grab the kit and the add-on you will need both. You can get them at http://tkdezigns.blogspot.com/2014/05/3-free-kits.html

Font of your choice I am using hl comic. Which you can get at http://www.hunglan.com/?page_id=494 it is #4 on this page.

Animation by Divine Intentionz. You can get it at http://divineintentionz.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-animations.html

Plugins:

Xero Soft Mood.

Let's Begin:

Open the framestars element from the kit and shift+D to duplicate.

Close the original.

Make your canvas large enough to work with.

Using your magic wand select the inside of the frame and go to selections modify and expand by 5.

Open the paper called blinged-pink and copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag under the frame and go to selections invert and hit delete.

Selections invert again.

Open the close up of your tube and copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag under the frame and position within the frame area and selections invert and hit delete to clear the excess hanging out of the frame.

Selections select none.

Go to adjust hue and saturation – colorize and set both properties to 0.

Apply Xero Soft Mood with both properties set to 50.

Add a drop shadow to the tube.

Open the full size of your tube and copy and paste as a new layer and position over the stars on the frame.

Lower the opacity of this tube layer so you can see the stars through the tube.

Using your eraser tool very carefully erase the bits of your tube that is over the stars. The object is to make it look like she is behind the stars and coming out of the frame.

When happy raise the opacity of this layer back up to 100 and add a drop shadow.

Add a drop shadow to the frame.

Open crown1 and re-size by 50% 2x.
Copy and paste as a new layer and place near the bottom overlapping the stars.

Add a drop shadow.

Open moneypink and re-size by 50% and copy and paste as a new layer and move to the bottom of the stars.

Add a drop shadow.

Open diamond rec frame.

Re-size by 75%.

Copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag under the crown and the money.

Move to the bottom and place so the crown and the money are overlapping the left side.

Using your magic wand select the inside of the frame.

Selections modify and expand by 3.

Open paper rkpinkdamask which can be found in the add-on kit.

Copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag under the frame.
Selections invert and hit delete.

Selections select none.

Add a drop shadow to the frame.

Add your name to the inside of the frame.

Use the pink white and black diamonds and re-size them and copy and paste randomly over the top of your name.

Add your copyright and licensing information.

Lets get ready to animate:

Crop your tag.

Layers new raster layer and move this layer to the bottom.

Flood fill with white.

Merge your layers together and edit copy.

Open animation shop and right click and paste as a new animation.

Look at the animation you are going to use and see how many frames are in it.

Duplicate your tag animation to the same amount of frames.

Edit select all frames on both the animation and your tag.

Grab the first frame of your animation and drag it onto the first frame of your tag.

Don't let go until you have it where you want it.

View your animated tag. If you are happy then optimize and save.

You might have to undo it a couple of times to get the placement how you want.

Re-size if you wish.