First time trying one of my Tutorials? Then please check my Terms of Use before you continue You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called Ekistra Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Ismael Rac License and Tubes available now available at Scraps and Company And my selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder
Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies DSB Flux/Bright Noise
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 600x250 Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 20 Right - 600 Bottom - 30 Left - 0 Flood Fill the Selection with the color Black
Selections> Select None Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Tiling ... change the Tile Gap to 5 Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 300 Bottom - 250 Left -0
Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None Effects> Geometric Effects> Spherize ... with the following settings Strength - 100 Shape - Circle
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible Layers> Duplicate ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible Rename this layer "Black Lines"
Activate your Flood Fill Tool Change your Foreground and Background to two colors from your Tube Ligher color being the Foreground Click on your Foreground again and create a Gradient ... with the following settings Style - Sunburst Repeats - 0 Invert - unchecked
Layers> New Raster Layer Flood Fill this new layer with your Gradient Move this layer to the bottom in your layer palette and rename it "Background"
Layers> New Raster Layer Rename this new layer "Sphere" move it to the middle in your layer palette and make sure it is active Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial
Now you need to swap colors Now Flood Fill the Selection ... Selections> Select None
Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3) Activate the "Sphere" layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings Intensity - 25 Direction - Mix Activate the "Copy (2) of Sphere" layer Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok Activate the "Copy of Sphere" layer Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok
Hide the "Copy of Sphere" and the "Copy (2) of Sphere" layers Paste your Close Up as a New Layer ... rename it "Close Up" move this layer between the "Background" and "Sphere" layers and lower the layers Opacity (I lowered to 30%)
Paste your Tubes as a New Layer ... rename it "Tube" Move this layer to the Top in your layer palette Position to your liking and apply a suitable Drop Shadow
Crop image 600x250 Layers> New Raster Layer ... change your Foreground from Gradient to Color Flood Fill layer with your Foreground color Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 Hit DELETE on your keyboard
Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 2 Selections> Invert ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color Selections> Select All Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 1 Selections> Invert Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame
Here is another example by my friend Sezy
Tutorial written on the 16/08/2011 ©David Hanslip |