Zoom Butterfly

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
July 8th, 2013
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using
a tube by Arthur Crowe
You can find the tube at
his store.

Supplies:
Tube Of Choice
Scrap of Choice I am using a PTU
scrap called Little Wish by
AmyMarie's Scraps
BeckyMask022
You can download the mask here


Open a 700x700 new image with a white background.
Open up a frame of choice.
Paste as a new layer.

Click inside the frame with your
magic wand tool.
Selections modify expand by 8.
Paste a paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections invert & press delete.
Move the paper underneath the frame layer.

Open a closeup of your tube.
Resize 80% or as needed.
Paste between the two layers.
Press delete button.
Select none.

Add a drop shadow to the tube closeup
& frame layers. 2,2,50,5 black.
Merge the three layers together.
Move to the left & up slightly.
Duplicate this layer & mirror.
Move the copy down slightly to create
a staggered look.

Merge the two frame layers together.
Resize this layer 90%.

Open a swing element.
Paste on the left side & move this layer
underneath the two frame layers in your
layer palette. You want the seat part of the swing
visible below the left side frame.

Open a flower like lamp. Resize 80% twice or as needed.
Image & flip. Position to appear to be on swing.
Open your main tube up. Resize 85%.
Paste as a new layer & position in the center
of the tag.
Add the earlier drop shadow to it.

Open a honey barrel. Reszie 70%.
Paste by one of the bottom frame corners.
Paste a standing grass element as a new layer.
Position behind the honey barrel.

Duplicate the grass once & mirror.
Move this layer in your palette to below the swing
layer. Open a flower element.
Paste by the honey barrel. Move this layer
just below the barrel. I did flip the element I used
to change how it sat on the tag.

Open a honey-combed felt element.
Paste as a new layer. Position on the bottom
behind the other layers. You want it peeking out
near the bottom of the swing.
Duplicate once - flip & then mirror. This one will
peek out near the top.

Open a staggering of flying butterflies.
Paste as a new layer on top of your tag.
Add the earlier drop shadow to it.

Paste a paper of choice on the bottom layer.
Apply Beckymask022.
Merge group.
Resize 105% this layer.
Duplicate the mask once.
Merge the two layers together.

Merge layers visible.
Resize 88%.
Add artist copyright info & name.
If you don't wish to animate, then save now.
Just add a butterfly element to the barrel or where
you would like to have it.

Paste a butterfly element of choice.
Resize this layer 60%.
Rotate free rotate 25 left.
Paste the butterfly as a new animation into
AS. ( Animation shop )

In AS, Effects
Insert Image Transition.
Effect Zoom
Transition length 2.5
Frames per second 7
Click okay.
This will give you a lot of frames!

Now copy your tag over to AS.
Paste as a new animation.
Ctrl + L to get more frames.
You will have to keep doing L over
& over to get a total of 18 frames.

Once you have 18 frames, edit select all.
Now on the butterfly animation, select all & copy.
Then drag over to the main tag. Make sure to position
as you want it.

Once all positioned, select all
Animation - Frame properties to 20.
Select all - view animation.
if you are happy, save your tag.
Thanks so much for trying my tutorial.