Feathers and Fairies Tutorial

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In the Layer Palette, click on Raster 1 and Flood Fill with White.

Right click on the Fairy layer and Duplicate.  Click on the original Fairy Layer and Drag it down to just above Raster 1.

 

Resize this layer by 120%. (Image> Resize or Shft-S)  In the layer palette, turn down the Opacity of this layer to 56%  (or more if you want a lighter look).  Using your Move tool, position this layer behind the fairy so that the bottom edges of the second sets of wings line up.

Click on your Eraser tool.  Use size 15.  Erase the feet that are sticking out at the bottom below the fairy.  There is no need to be precise about this.

Now click on Effects> Distortion Effects> Curlicues.  Use these settings.

Right Click on your Feathers Layer and Duplicate.  Click on your Original Feathers layer.  Turn the Opacity of this Layer down to 56% (or whatever you turned the fairy layer down to).  Resize by 110%.  (Shft-S)  Use your Move Tool to drag this layer up, behind and slightly above the other feathers.

Click on Effects>Distortion Effects> Curlicues.  Use the same settings except Increase the number of Rows and Columns to 13.

Click on your Text Layer and add a Drop Shadow. (Effect> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow).  Use these settings or your own.

 

Click on your Copy of Fairy Layer and add a Drop Shadow using the same settings or your own.  And you are done!!  If you feel like your name isn't showing up enough, you can lower the Opacity of the Copy of Feathers layer slightly (to 90% maybe?)

Right click on any layer.  Merge> Merge All (Flatten)  Crop.  And save as a gif or a jpg.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial  If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Classroom Thread.