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 University Roman Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Jessica Dougherty License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet And my Selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections Folder
Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies DSB Flux/Bright Noise xero/Fritillary Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 600x250 Change your Foreground and Background to 2 colors from your Tube Flood Fill layer with your Background Color
Effects> xero> Fritillary ... Default Settings Layers > New Raster Layer Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color Selections> Select None
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color Selections> Select None
Effects> Distortion Effects> Wave ... with the following settings
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line ... change number to 12 Select your Magic Wand Tool ... with the following settings
Click inside one of the stripes of your Foreground color Selections> Modify> Select Color Range
Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings
Selections> Invert Effects> xero> Fritillary ... with the following settings
Load the Selection I supplied with this Tutorial Hit Delete on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings
Edit> Repeat Gradient Glow ... this time change the color to your Foreground color
Paste your Tube as a New Layer and position on the right side of your Tag Apply a suitable Drop Shadow
Paste your Tube as a New Layer again and position over the circle area Layers> Arrange> Move Down ... do this twice so it is above the background layer in your layer palette Change this layers Blend Mode to Multiply or one suitable Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Crop Image 600x250 ... Activate the Top layer Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of your choice Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None Add Copyrights and your Name
Activate the Bottom layer ... Edit> Copy ... Now open Animation Shop and match these settings
Click on the Customize Button
Change the first 10 waves to the following Wave 1: X -42 ... Y 19 Wave 2: X 7 ... Y -40 Wave 3: X 20 ... Y 31 Wave 4: X -39 ... Y -24 Wave 5: X -15 ... Y 51 Wave 6: X 43 ... Y -10 Wave 7: X -24 ... Y -63 Wave 8: X -61 ... Y -1 Wave 9: X -37 ... Y 46 Wave 10: X -62 ... Y -17
Set all other waves to X 0 ... Y 0 DELETE the first Frame Go back to PSP Hide the Bottom layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
ANIMATING Return to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have 10 frames (same amount as your underwater image) Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy
Activate the Underwater image Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames ... move into correct position and click once to place Animation> Frame Properties ... set to 15
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 04/12/2011 ©David Hanslip |