PTU Sorrowful Crow tut (Animated)

 

Supplies used:

Gorgeous tube by Rosanna Castellino called Sorrow and Gray Sky. Get it from DSI.

Killer kit from my girl at Tasha's Playground called Sorrowful you. This kit you can get exclusively at PTE.

Filters: 

VDL Snowflakes

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient glow

Fonts:

A Lolita Scorned

Jellyka Castle's Queen

Lyrics are from Jane Siberry's song It can't Rain all the time from the movie The Crow. They served for the inspiration for this tag.

Open up the window element. Resize canvas to 800 by 800 (You can resize later)

Resize window to 125%.

C/P Your tube. Dropshadow. Position along the edge of the window on the right side. Use your deform tool to stretch the height of the window to your liking.

Using your selection tool select the area inside the window. Add a new raster layer and move UNDER the frame. 

C/P Paper 8 into selection.

Add another new layer. C/P Paper 2 into selection. Change your layer properties to overlay.

C/P Tree.  Resize by 50%. Add Dropshadow. Position randomly around UNDER the window. (I used 5 trees total). Merge the trees together and change layer properties to burn. Selections, Invert, Delete. Deselect.

Select your Window layer. Use your magic wand to select the inside of the circle at the top of the Window. Selections, Modify, Expand by 5. Add new layer. C/P Button into selection. Selection none. Adjust, Color Balance, Manual Color Correction and change your button to red.

Add dropshadow to the window.

C/P Clock. Dropshaow. Position in the left corner of your window. Move to the bottom.

C/P Net. Resize by 50%. Dropshadow. Position in the upper right corner of the window.

C/P Wings. Dropshadow. Image, Rotate, Free rotate 90 degrees right. I used my lasso tool to delete the band between the wings. 

C/P Leaves. Dropshadow. Resize by 50%. Rotate 90 degrees. Position over wings. Duplicate and flip.

Open Roses. Use your lasso tool to select just the flower portions. Adjust, Color Balance, Manual Color Correction and change your Roses to a dark red. Deselect.

C/P Roses as a new layer. Resize by 50%. Add Dropshadow. Duplicate and flip.

C/P Bird so it looks like he is sitting in the window. Resize by 50%. Add Drop Shadow.

Open Candle 2. Use your selection tool to remove the base. Resize by 75%. Dropshadow.

C/P UNDER your bird. Dropshadow. Duplicate 4 times and position so the candles run up the side of your frame.

Open up the feather. Adjust, Color Balance, Manual Color Correction and change your feather to black. Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance. Resize by 50%. Duplicate.Rotate 90 degrees. Position along the bottom sill of the window.

C/P Branch. Image, Flip. Resize by 50%. Position over feathers.

C/P Spider. Resize by 50% . Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance.

Using A Lolita Scorned Font type out your lyrics. Add Inner Bevel of your choice. Then add gradient glow with the following setting...

Add Drop Shadow and duplicate.

On your original layer go to Adjust, Blur Guassian blur with these settings...

Add your name to the top of the window with the Jellyka Castle queen font. Repeat the steps from above.

Add Copyright and watermark.

If you choose not to have the animation and background save your tag here. It will look something like this...

Moving onto the animation.

Select the bottom layer of your tag. Add a new Raster layer and floodfill with black. 

Add another new layer and floodfill with red texture of your choice.

Now Duplicate your entire tag. (shift and D) On the duplicate ONLY merge all. Go to Image, Picture Frame. Add frame Edge Design 01 (If this is not standard just use a frame you have :) Make sure Frame Canvas and Frame inside the image are selected. Go to Adjust, Color Balance, Negative Image. C/P the frame layer just above your red texture layer on your original. (you can close the duplicate.)

Select your window Layer. Use the selection tool to select only the inside area of the window. Add a new Raster Layer. Use VDL Snowflakes with the following setting...

Then go to Adjust, Blur Motion blur with these settings...

DO NOT DESELECT!!

Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3. Merge these 3 layers together.

Hide this layer. Add a new raster layer and repeat the steps above but change the randow seed on your VDL Snowflakes to 2.

Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3. Merge these 3 layers together.

Hide this layer. Add a new raster layer and repeat the steps above but change the randow seed on your VDL Snowflakes to 4.

Deselect.

Hide the top rain layer and unhide the bottom rain layer. Edit, Copy Merged and paste into animation shop as a new animation.

Hide the bottom rain layer and unhide the middle rain layer. Edit, Copy Merged and paste into animation shop after frame.

Hide the middle rain layer and unhide the top rain layer. Edit, Copy Merged and paste into animation shop after frame.

Edit, Select all. Then go to animation, Frame Properties and change the speed to 20.

Save and enjoy. I would love to see results for this tut :)