This Tut was written on the 16th of March 2009
Any similarity to any other tutorials is purely coincidental
TOOLS NEEDED
Tube Of Choice I am using the great work of Fed X you may not use this tube w/out the proper license to do so you can visit MPT
Here to purchase this tube and obtain a license.
Scrap kit of choiice
Filters needed Almathera puddle, Filters Unlimited 2.0
Sun preset shape
Mask Of Choice
floaties of choice
Animation Shop
1 Open 500x500 floodfill white.
2. Make a square/rectangle with color of choice line width set at 10 align center in canvas.
3. copy n paste pond resize 65% n set to your liking on top of your square
4. open paper 2 set as background pattern forground black line width at 1 make ur sun locate in your square box.
5. Add inner bevel to sun, bevel 1, width 2, smoothness 42, depth 2, ambience 0, shinniness 36,angel 315, intensity, 31, elevation 60, color white add other embellishements to your liking.
6. Duplicate ur pond 2x for a total of three and lock them in place see in layers pannel theres a lock click on them for the 3 layers
7. Magic wand click in the water get as much as possible hold shift n start clicking lol
8. Almethra puddle settings as follows reflection 324, 8, 27, 0, 90. 2nd layer 352, 8,0,27,0,95, 3rd layer same as before but the top number and bottom u will change this to 353 and 100. deselect. or u can add a bit of noise also to it. You may also want to play around with the settings on the layers if you are not using this kit.
9. New layer send to the bottom click inside ur square with ur magic wand f/f blue. Filters unlimited, render and clouds at default settings.
10. New layer floodfill with color of choice and use your mask of choice.
11. Add your tube and all other embellishements includin your name and copyrite.
Animation
If you have done my tuts before you will no how to add this to your animation shop if not please look at my animated tuts for animation. frame properties set this to 30. save