Butterfly - a forum set tutorial

Butterfly

This tutorial was written on July 16, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. 
It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to use filters/plugins.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
A close-up of a tube you decide on. I’m using a stunning tube by Terra Bidlespacher. She was selling at My Tubed Art when this tutorial was written.
In my second example at the bottom, I used the gorgeous art of Rita Kirby. You have to have a license number to use her art. Go to My Tubed Art for more info.
A font of choice. I used “TrashButterfly”

Materials you need:
Mura Meister – Copies
Eye Candy 6 – Perspective Shadow (or other versions)
Eye Candy 6 – Texture – Swirl (or older versions)
Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (Optional)

Open up a new canvas; 600x250 px and flood fill with a colour from the tube. I used #7ebfbd.
Duplicate this layer so you have 4 layers of it in total. We’ll use these later.
Paste your tube and go to Effect – Mura Meister Copies and change to Wall Paper (darken) with the default settings:

You can play around with the numbers if you want to. Click ok.
Change the layer properties to Overlay.

Activate your Preset Shapes and find a butterfly. The one I used is called “SK Butterfly Wings 08” I don’t remember where I got this from. If you don’t have it, you can use any other you like.
With the background colour set to black and foreground to null, and make a butterfly. See my tag for reference to size. Convert to raster.

Select All, Float, Defloat and hide the butterfly layer. Go to the layer below and hit Delete. Do the same with the layer below. (Copy (3) of Raster 1)

Hide all layers except the layers where you deleted the butterfly pattern and Merge Visible. Unhide the layers again.Click inside the butterfly with the Magic Wand and Expand the selection by 2.
Keep the selection active and go to Copy (2) of Raster 1.
Go to Effect - Eye Candy 6 – Swirl and change the settings to this:

Repeat this on the other backgrounds, but hit Random Seed each time.
Once you have done it to all 3 background layers, choose Deselect.
Go to the Overlay layer and add a drop shadow with these setting; 0, 0, 100, 5, Black.
Delete the black butterfly layer. We don't need it anymore.

Add the tube again and place on the right side. I resized mine down to 80%.
Add a drop shadow or use Perspective Shadow with the blurry setting:

You can also use other versions of Perspective Shadow.

Add a new layer and flood fill with a dark colour from the tube. I used #454a4e (dark grey from the tube). Select All and contract the selection by 3 and hit Delete. Deselect and add the same drop shadow you used on the Overlay layer.
Crop your creation with Merge Opaque.

Add your name using the same colour you used as the frame. Convert to raster and add a Gradient Glow. I used Eye Candy 4000 and the Fat setting, with these numbers; 3, 25, 100 and the same colour I used for background.
Add a drop shadow to the name.
Add proper copyright and save your creations.

Open it in your Animation Shop or Photoshop and animate as usual.
If you are using AS, don’t forget to slow down the animation some. Probably somewhere between 20 and 30.
I animate in PS and I set the delay to 0.4.

Save as gif and you’re done!

Here is another example with music notes instead of a butterfly, using a tube by Rita Kirby: