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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called DB Michael

Tube and Close Up 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

 

 

Effects> Image Effects> Offset ... with the following settings

 

Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror

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

Lighter 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"

 

 

With the Background layer active

Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial

Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Selections> Select None

Rename the promoted layer "flux"

 

 

Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3)

Activate the "flux" layer

Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings

Intensity - 26

Direction - Mix

Activate the "Copy of flux " layer

Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok

Activate the "Copy (2) of flux " layer

Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok

Hide the "Copy of flux " and the "Copy (2) of flux " layers

 

 

Paste your Close Up as a New Layer ... rename it "Close Up"

move this layer between the "Background" and "flux" layers and position suitably

and change the layers Blend Mode to one suitable (I used Soft Light)

 

 

Paste your Tube 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

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

 

 

Tutorial written on 27/08/ 2011 ©David Hanslip