Hot Steel (2012)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Victorina Black

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Ed Mironiuk

This artist is no longer selling their art in Tube Format

My 2 selections which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder

Filters:

Eye Candy 6: Textures/Brushed Metal

Mura's Meister/Copies

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250

Change your Foreground and Background to 2 colors from your Tube

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial (Spawns-HotSteel01)

Flood Fill with your Foreground color ... Selections> Select None

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal ... with the following settings

Click on the "Settings" tab and select the "Linear" folder then select "Steel"

Click on the "basics" tab

click the button next to Metal Color (the one with the down arrow) and select Foreground Color

Click on the Random Seed button once then on OK

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line ... change the Number to 9

Layers> New Raster Layer

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial (Spawns-HotSteel02)

Flood Fill with your Background color ... Selections> Select None

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... same settings as before

Rename this layer BM & Duplicate it twice (for a total of 3)

Activate the BM layer again

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal ... change the Metal Color to your Background Color

Click on the Random Seed button once then on OK

Activate the Copy of BM layer ... Edit> Repeat Brushed Metal... click on the Mix button once then OK

Activate the Copy (2) of BM layer ... Edit> Repeat Brushed Meta ... click on the Mix button once then OK

Hide the 2 Top BM layers for now

Layers> New Raster Layer

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color ... Selections> Select None

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

Layers> New Raster Layer

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Flood Fill with your Foreground color ... Selections> Select None

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the same settings as before

Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 0, 0, 100, 4, color of choice

Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Paste your Tube as a New Layer, position on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow

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

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

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

Selections> Select None ... Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with your Foreground color

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 1 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

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

Layers> Arrange> Move Down ... Add Copyrights and your Name

**Optional**

I wanted my Tube to look like she was popping out of the tag & here is how I did it.

Take your Selection Tool and make a Selection like so

Activate the Border layer ... Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Selections> Select None

In your Layer Palette move this layer above the Tube layer now you will notice the

border covers this portion of the Tube so it looks like the Tube is popping out of the Tag

ANIMATING

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Return to PSP unhide the Copy of BM layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

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

Return to PSP unhide the Copy of (2) BM layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

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

Edit> Select All ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 12

And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation