It's A Bee



It's A Bee

Supplies needed

Font of choice I used Bradley Hand ITC font
Tube of choice I used Suzanne Woolcott’s daisy fairy Thanks artwork of © Suzanne Woolcott
Licence can be purchased from Artistic Minds Inc
Tube it’s a bee-yooo-tiful bee artwork of © Butterflyflutterby - here
Do not redistribute supplies they are for use with this tutorial only and may not be used in any other tutorial without my permission

This tutorial is written for psp9

This tutorial looks hard but it’s easier than you think but just in case get a good cup of coffee

At end of the tutorial resize tag or if you prefer working smaller use a smaller size

Open daisy fairy tube > select daisy tube > image > copy > image paste new layer

Image > resize 78

Place your daisy top right corner

Do not merge down we have left this daisy loose as we will might need to move it when we add the text if you haven’t left enough room

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Effects > 3d effects > drop shadow > setting below

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Preset tool > ellipse > foreground colour black > line width 3 DON’T convert layer draw around daisy remember to leave enough room for your text to go around

Open it’s a bee-yooo-tiful bee tube

Edit > copy > edit paste as new layer

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Paste your be so its tail point is on the circle > use the raster deform tool to twist your bee into position

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Select ellipse layer Click on layer the letter A should turn to as shown below

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Text tool > background colour black > Bradley Hand ITC > 18 > type It's a bee-yooo-tiful day

Check that you have enough room around the tag with your text that its not overlapping busy bees are humming on the bottom of frame 2

The next bit sound tricky but once u have done it once it’s same for all 6 bees

Use raster deform tool to position text to just after the bees swirl fly tail

Right click on text layer and select create raster layer

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Right click again and select promote selection to layer

Selections > select none

X out Vector layer > select bee layer

Right click on layer palette and merge down > rename B1

Right click and merge down the Daisy with the tag

Un x out Vector layer

X out B1

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Now just repeat these steps for the follow 5 bees

1.Paste a new bee

2. use the raster deform tool to twist your bee into position so its tail point is on the circle

3. Use raster deform tool to position text to just after the bees swirl fly tail

4. Select text tool > click on vector layer

5. Right click on text layer and select create raster layer

6. Selections > select none

7. X out Vector layer > select bee layer

8. Right click on layer palette and merge down > rename B1,B2,B3,B4.B5,B6

9. Un x out Vector layer

10. X out the renamed B1,B2,B3,B4.B5,B6

11. REPEAT till you have 6 bees

Move you should have six bees named B1, B2, B3, B4.B5, and B6

Select vector layer and delete

Your bee should now look like

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You should now have 6 bee layers and your tag layer

Duplicate your tag layer so you have 6 copies in total

X out 5 bees and 5 tag copies leaving just one b1 and one tag layer visible

Right click on visible bee and merge visible

X out merged layer Un- X out b2 and one of the tag layers and merge visible

Repeat for all the layers till you are left with 6 merged layers

Un-X out all merged layers

Select crop tool > draw round tag > apply

Image > resize > settings below

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Save

Open animation shop

Open saved tag

Edit > select all > view >animation your writing should be turning clock wise

Don’t worry if its not

Animation > reverse frames > view > animation now your text should be turning clockwise

While all frames are selected click animation > frame properties

Change to 35

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Save tag

You can breathe a sigh of relief


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