LA Woman forum style tag (FTU and simple Animation)

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Supplies used:

Awesome tube from my girl Justice Howard available at psptubes.net.

FTU Scrapkit from the amazing Tasha called Additude. Get it HERE.

Animation by Lovey at Love Shack. Get it HERE

Font is Adore

Animation Shop

Open a new image size 650 by 250

C/P paper 3. Duplicate and multiply.

C/P Cityscape. Resize by 65% and position in left corner. Duplicate and mirror.

C/P Wings 2. Resize by 50%. Use the deform tool to position on a slight angle.

Duplicate wings and use the deform tool to scale them down to fit inside the original span.

C/P Flowers. Resize by 50%. I used my eraser tool to remove the rose bud at the top. Duplicate and mirror. Position so the roses overlap in the middle.Merge down. Use your deform tool to position over the center of the wings.

C/P Flaming heart. Resize by 50%. Use the deform tool an position just under one side of the roses. Duplicate mirror and move into position.

C/P Brass Knuckles. Resize by 30%. Add dropshadow. Duplicate, Mirror, move into position.

(I added the leaf resized to 50% under the brass knuckles on the left but it may not be necessary due to positioning)

Type out your test and position as desired. Add inner bevel of choice.

Add copyright and watermark.

Close your tube, element, and cityscape layers. Copy merged and paste into animation shop as a new animation. Edit, Duplicate selected til you have a total of 12 frames. Click your first frame and select all.

Open Bars animation. Click the first frame and select all. now drag the first frame of the bars to the first frame of your background (About halfway down). View your animation to assure it is position as your like it. If not at this point you can always hit the back button on both images and try again.

Select the first frame again. Select all and change frame properties to 20.

Back in psp close your 2 background layers and open the rest. Copy merged and paste as a new image into animation shop. 

Check under edit to be sure propagate paste is clicked.

Drag to the first frame of your background.

Back in PSP type out your name. Add inner bevel of choice again. edit, Copy. Paste as a new image in animation shop. Drag to frame one of your animation. View your animation...If anything in blinking just hit the back button on both your animation and name. Just be sure you have checked the following things:

Is Propagate paste checked?

Did you click the first frame and then Edit, Select all.?

Did your drag the name to the first frame?

If so you should be all set :P