Heavenz (2012)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called FederationDS9Title

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:

DSB Flux/Bright Noise

Ok let's begin

Change your Foreground to a medium color from your Tube

Change your Background to a Very Light shade of the same color

Click on your Foreground again & change to Gradient ... with the following settings

Open a New Image 600x250 ... Flood Fill with your Gradient

Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings

Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance More

Layers> Duplicate

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None

Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 0, 0, 100, 10, color of your choosing

Activate the Bottom layer

Effects> Distortion Effects> Wave ... with the following settings

Activate the Top Layer

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with a color from your Tube

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial

(Spawns-HeavenzDots)

If you want the circles a tad larger Selections> Modify> Expand by 1

Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None

Rename this layer Dots ... Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3)

Activate the Dots layer

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings

Intensity - 63
Direction - Mix

Activate the "Copy of Dots" layer
Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

Activate the "Copy (2) of Dots" layer
Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

Selections> Select None ... Hide the 2 top Dots layers for now

Paste your Tube as a New Layer and move to the right of your Tag

Apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with a darker shade of the Foreground color you had at the beginning of the Tutorial

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 2

Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None

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 "Dots" layer and unhide the "Copy of Dots" layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

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

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

Here is another example made by my friend Sezy