Ginger Fuzz (2013)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Big Bloke BB

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Dirk Richter

License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet

My Selection and Image HERE

Unzip and pop the Selection into your Selections Folder & Image somewhere easy to find

Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies

Funhouse/Xaggerate

Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250 ... Paste your Tube as a New Layer

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Wall Paper(rotate) ... default settings

Edit> Repeat Copies ... Crop Image 600x250

Layers> Duplicate

Effects> Funhouse> Xaggerate ... with the following settings

Open my image (Spawns-GingerFuzzImage)

Edit> Copy ... Activate your Tag ... Edit> Paste As New Layer

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial (Spawns-GingerFuzz)

Activate the Middle layer ... Hit DELETE once on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... change the Overall Opacity to 60% and color to White

Activate the Top layer

Paste your Tube as a New Layer, position on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of choice

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 1 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

Add Copyrights and your Name

ANIMATING

Activate the Bottom layer ... Edit> Copy

Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Effects> Insert Image Effect

Click on the Customize button

Click once on the first frame ... Edit> Copy ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have the same amount of frames as your animation (should be 10)

Activate your animation ... Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy

Activate your Tag ... Edit> Select All ...Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames

Move into position and click once (I zoomed in to help with positioning)

You can delete the animation only image now as you don't need it

Return to PSP ... Hide the Bottom layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Go to Animation Shop

Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have the same amount of frames as your Tag (should be 10)

Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy

Activate your Tag

Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames ... move into position and click once

Click on the first frame ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 130

Click on the second frame ... hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click on the tenth frame

Frames 2-10 should now be active (highlighted blue) ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 17

And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation