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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called MC Mahall

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis

License and Tubes now available at Creative Design Outlet

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

 

Filters:

Mehdi/Melt 1.1

xero/Fritillary

VM Distortion/Broken Mirror

DSB Flux/Bright Noise

 

 

 

 

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250

Change your Foreground and Background to two colors from your Tube

(do not use White ... Lighter color being Background)

 

 

Click on the Foreground again and make a Gradient ... with the following settings

 

 

Flood Fill your layer with this Gradient

Effects> Mehdi> Melt 1.1 ... with the following settings

 

 

Layers> Duplicate ... On the Duplicate

Effects> xero> Fritillary ... with the following settings

Change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible

 

 

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill this layer White

Effects> VM Distortion> Broken Mirror ... with the following settings

 

 

Change this layers Opacity to 20% ... Layers> Duplicate

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 5

Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

 

 

Selections> Invert ... Layers> Duplicate ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 8

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

 

 

Apply a Drop Shadow to each of the Top three layers with the following settings

0, 0, 100, 2, Black

 

 

Layers> Merge> Merge Visible ... Rename the layer flux

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of three

Activate the flux layer and load the Selection I provided at the start of the Tutorial

(Spawns-ItsChrissssstmasAgain)

 

 

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

 

Activate the "Copy of flux" layer

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

Activate the "Copy (2) of flux" layer

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

Selections> Select None

Hide the top two flux layers for now

Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Apply a suitable Drop Shadow and position to your liking

 

 

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of your choice

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 1

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

Apply a slight Drop Shadow so your border stands out

Add Copyright info 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 17/11/2011 ©David Hanslip