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Artwork used in this tutorial is by Suzanne Woolcott. You can purchase her work Here You must have a license to use her work! My Supplies Include:- Grass, tree, mask, animated leaves. Download Here I can't offer the actual tree used in my tut but have added a tree just a beautiful. There are no special plugins required for this, just your own tubes. Open a new image sized 600 x 600. Don't add any background colour, keep it transparent and add your main tubed image, the tree and any other elements you may wish to add. If you are happy with your design, merge visible and set to one side. Open a new file, the same size and fill the background with a colour that compliments your theme or a background of your choice and set to one side. Now go back to your main image, click on your Edit tab and click on copy then click on your other file with the background to make it live and paste your main image on to it. Go to your Selections tab and select none to get rid of the dancing dots and Merge All Layers. When you've done that, go to your Layers tab and apply the mask. You may see a big hole where your image should be so go back to your Layers tab and select Invert. Merge all layers and then apply your watermark and any text you may wish to add and save. OK, that's the first part done, now you need to add the floating leaves. Open up your animation shop, then open the animated floating leaves file and zoom out so you can see how many frames there are. In this case there are 20 frames. Now open up your saved main image and copy it the same amount of times as the animated floating leaves. This means you will have to copy your main image 20 times! The quickest way to do this is to click on your main image to make it live then right click on the image, then click on copy, then right click again and select Paste After Current Frame. You will now have two frames. Press the Ctrl key and the letters A and C (Ctrl A + C). You will see a blue outline around the frames to show you have selected both frames. Right click on your second frame and select Paste After Current Frame. You should now have 4 frames. Go back to your first frame, press the Ctrl key and the letters A and C again (Ctrl A + C). Click on your last frame and then right click and then select Paste After Current Frame. You will now have 8 frames. Continue to do this until you have 20 frames. Just to recap for you. Ctrl A + C to copy all frames then right click on the last frame showing, then select Paste After Current Frame. Once you have the same amount of frames as the floating leaves, you are then ready to paste the floating leaves on to your main image. Click on the first frame of your floating leaves to make it live. Press your Ctrl key and the letters A and C (Ctrl A + C). Check all frames are highlighted in blue. Now go to the first frame of your main image and press down your Ctrl key and press the letters A and E (Ctrl A + E). You will now be able to paste the floating leaves at the top of the tree trunk. You will need to add this several times, going down the tree trunk to get the same effect that I have, so this time simply press Ctrl A and E again (as your frames are all ready selected for copying) and add the floating leaves just under where you added the last lot of leaves. Keep doing this until you have added all the floating leaves you want. When done, save it and show it off. All tutorials are registered prior to publication Copyright © Flashgraphicstutorials.com 2008 BACK TO THE TUTORIALS