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You will need:
Font of your choice - I used one called Dancing
Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Ismael Rac
License and Tubes available now available at Scraps and Company
Filters:
Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow
Mura's Meister/Copies
DSB Flux/Bright Noise
Ok let's begin
Open a New Image 600x250
Select your Flood Fill Tool and change your
Foreground to a Dark color from your Tube
and your Background color to a Lighter tone of your Dark color
Click on the Foreground Color again and change it to
a Foreground-Background Gradient ... with these settings

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Flood Fill the Selection with your Gradient ... Selections> Select None
Effects> Distortion Effects> Wave ... with the following settings

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings
Click on the "Settings" tab and select the following
Simple (thin) - Black
Click on the "Basic" tab
change the Glow Radius to 3 and the color to White
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Cards (default settings)
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections - Select None
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Flip ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible
Effects> Image Effects> Offset ... with the following settings

Layers> Duplicate ...Image> Mirror ... Layers> Merge> Visible
Rename this layer flux ... Duplicate layer twice (for a total of 3)
Activate the flux layer
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Selections> Modify> Select Color Range ... with the following settings

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings
Intensity - 36
Direction - Mix
Activate the "Copy of flux" layer
Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok
Activate the "Copy (2) of flux" layer
Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok
Selections> Select None ... Hide the 2 top flux layers for now
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill With your Dark color from your Tube
Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings

Layers> Arrange> Send To Bottom ... Now go to your Tube image ... Edit> Copy
Go back to your Tag ... Edit> Paste as new layer
Move this layer to the Top in your layer palette (if not already there)
Position to the right then add a suitable Drop Shadow (resize if needed)
Layers> Duplicate
In you layer palette drag the duplicate Tube layer to above your background layer
and with your Mover Tool move your Tube to the middle of your tag so it is viewable
in the big gap and also change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light (look at my tag for example)
Layers> Merge> Merge Down ...Activate the original Tube layer
Crop image 600x250
Selections> Modify> Select Selection Borders ... with the following settings
Inside
Anti Alias - checked
Border Width - 4
Flood Fill Selection with the color Black ... Selections> Select None
Selections> Select All
Selections> Modify> Select Selection Borders ... change Border Width to 3
Flood Fill Selection with your Dark color ... Selections> Select None
Selections> Select All
Selections> Modify> Select Selection Borders ... change Border Width to 1
Flood Fill Selection with the color Black ... Selections> Select None
Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING
Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation
Return to PSP hide the "flux" layer and unhide the "Copy of flux" layer
Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Go back to Animation Shop
Edit> Paste> After Current Frame
Return to PSP hide the "Copy of flux" layer and unhide the "Copy (2) of flux" layer
Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Go back to Animation Shop
Edit> Paste> After Current Frame
And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation
Here is another example made by my friend Sezy

Tutorial written on the 27/04/2011 ©David Hanslip
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