Luck of the Irish (2012)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Ardagh

Close Up of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Keith Garvey

License and Tubes currently available at Creative Design Outlet

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

Filters:

Xenofex 2/Constellation

Ok let's begin

Set your Foreground to a Light color from your Tube

Set your Background to a Dark shade of your Light color

Open a New Image 600x250

Flood Fill with your Foreground color

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

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

Layers> Duplicate

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

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

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial

(Spawns-LuckoftheIrish)

Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color

Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings

Paste your Close Up as a New Layer and position what you want to show inside the Selection

Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Invert

Change this layers Blend Mode to Luminance and lower its Opacity a bit (I went to 80%)

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with the color Black

Selections> Modify> Contract by 2 ... hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None

Hide the 2 bottom layers ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible

UnHide the 2 bottom layers ... Activate the Top layer ... Layers> Duplicate

Activate the Original ... Effects> Xenofex 2> Constellation ... with the following settings

Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... with the following settings

Activate the Top layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Activate the Middle layer ... Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the same settings as earlier

Change this layers Blend Mode to Multiply

Paste your Close Up as a New Layer and move into position

(look at my tag for reference)

Apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Activate the Top layer ... Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with an even Darker shade of your Background color

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

Selections> Select None

Rename this layer xeno and Duplicate it three times (for a total of 4)

Activate the xeno layer

Effects> Xenofex> Constellation ... with the following settings

Activate the "Copy of xeno " layer ... Edit> Repeat Constellation ... Hit the Random Seed button once

Activate the "Copy (2) of xeno " layer ... Edit> Repeat Constellation ... Hit the Random Seed button once

Hide the "Copy of xeno" and "Copy (2) of xeno" layers for now

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 "xeno" layer and unhide the "Copy of xeno " layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

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

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

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

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

Edit> Select All ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 15

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