Adding Sparkle in GA 5

ADDING THE SPARKLE

Step 1: Go to File/Open and navigate to the folder that you have saved your UFO file that you want to add sparkle to. Usually 3 frames is all you need. Click on the top layer and highlight, hold down shift and click on the bottom layer.

This will highlight all your layers, now goto the Distribute Frames Icon

Step 2: This will distribute all 3 layers to 3 frames.

Step3: Click on the Magic Wand on the left Toolbar

Zoom in so you can see what you are doing. To zoom in go to View/Zoom in and click on 3x.

Go to Frame 1 and make sure that you also highlight the layer with the eye open. (this is important)

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Before you use your magic wand, make sure that you do Not have a shadow on your image!!

If you do, right-click on your layers in the Object Manager and take the tick out of Shadow. you can add the Shadow after you have finished doing your sparkle.

If you have had to take a shadow off your text, go back to the top, highlight, hold down shift, then click on the bottom layer again.

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Click on the transparent space (in your viewing space, not on the frame running board) around your name with the magic wand.

Go to Object/Selection/Invert

Step 4: Make sure that you have the first frame highlighted and that you also have the layer for that frame highlighted as well. (the eye should be open)

Step 5: Go to Filters/VM Natural/Sparkles and use the settings below, (Max Size setting is of personal choice, if you would like bigger stars, then move the slider to the right for a bigger number) on your first frame.

Step 6: Highlight frame 2 and the layer for frame 2 that has the eye open, go to Filters/VM Natural/sparkles and use the same settings as above only move the Random Seed slider.

Step 7: Highlight frame 3 (last frame) and the corresponding layer should have its eye open and use the same settings but once again move the Random Seed slider.

That is it now finished, but if you would like to add Colour Sparkle as well, go back to the first frame and follow Steps 5-7, but use these settings below and (Max Size setting is of personal choice, if you would like bigger stars, then move the slider to the right for a bigger number) just move the Random Seed slider in each frame.

This is now finished and this was the result.

Hope that you have enjoyed and have been able to understand.

Please feel free to print this tutorial out for your own personal use.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this, is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 14th January 2007 and is therefore

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