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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used BN Pinky Bold for the Vibration text and Bolero Script for the Name

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Matt Busch

This artist is not currently selling their art in Tube Format

 

Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies

Funhouse/Evanescence

Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow (optional)

Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow (optional)

Greg's Factory Output Vol.II/ Radial Hilite

 

 

 

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250

Paste your Tube as a New Layer and position in the middle of your canvas (resize if needed)

Layers> Duplicate ... Activate the bottom Tube layer

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line(random rotate) ... default settings

Edit> Repeat Copies ... same settings as above

 

 

Crop Image 600x250

Layers> Duplicate ... Activate the Original layer

Adjust> Blur> Motion Blur ... with the following settings

 

 

Activate the Duplicate layer

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

 

 

Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light

Lower this layers Opacity to a suitable amount (I lowered it to 38%)

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

 

 

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

Change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light and it's Opacity to the same amount as the layer you did Evanescence on

Rename this layer Greg ... Duplicate this layer 3 times (for a total of 4)

 

 

Activate the Greg layer

Effects> Greg's Factory Output Vol.II> Radial Hilite ... with the following settings

 

Activate the Copy of Greg layer ... Edit> Repeat Radial Hilite ... change the Frequency to 62 and click OK

Activate the Copy (2) of Greg layer ... Edit> Repeat Radial Hilite ... change the Frequency to 82 and click OK

Activate the Copy (3) of Greg layer ... Edit> Repeat Radial Hilite ... change the Frequency to 102 and click OK

Hide the top 3 Greg layers

 

 

Activate the Tube layer

The next 2 steps are optional you can simply add a Drop Shadow instead if you like

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

 

 

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... with the following settings

 

 

 

Change your Foreground to a color of choice and your

Background to the same color you used for your Gradient Glow

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with your Foreground color

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 3 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

 

 

Selections> Modify> Expand by 1 ... Selections> Invert

Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings

 

 

Selections> Invert ... Selections> Modify> Expand by 1 ... Selections> Invert

Layers> New Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color

Selections> Select None ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

 

 

Activate the 2nd layer up from bottom in your layer palette (the one we used Evanescence on)

Activate your Text Tool and under the settings set the Stroke width to 0 and Create As to Vector

and select the font name, size etc to any of your choice

Type out a word/words of your choice ... I wrote Vibration ... Objects> Align> Center In Canvas

Layers> Convert to Raster Layer

 

 

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Tiling ... change the Tile Gap to 3

Change this layers Blend Mode to Multiply and Opacity to a suitable amount (I lowered it to 30%)

Make a Custom Selection ... same settings as earlier ... Hit DELETE once on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

Activate the Top layer ... 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 Greg layer and unhide the Copy of Greg layer ...Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

 

Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Return to PSP hide the Copy of Greg layer and unhide the Copy (2) of Greg layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Go back to Animation Shop ...Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Return to PSP hide the Copy (2) of Greg layer and unhide the Copy (3) of Greg layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

 

Go back to Animation Shop ...Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Edit> Select All ... 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

 

 

 

Here is another example made by my friend Beverly

 

Tutorial written on the 08/02/2013 ©David Hanslip