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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Helinda Rook

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Hallan Moulin


Filters:

L en K/Maxime (also known as L&K Filters)

Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow

DSB Flux/Bright Noise


 



Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250 ... Activate your Flood Fill Tool

Set your Foreground to a Light Color from your Tube

Set your Background to a Dark Color from your Tube

Click on the Foreground Color again and change it to Gradient ... with the following settings

Style - Linear
Angle - 0
Repeats - 1
Invert - unchecked

 

Flood Fill layer with your Gradient

Layers> Duplicate ... Activate the duplicate layer

Effects> L en K> Maxime ... with the following settings

control 0 - 200
control 1 - 255

 

Activate you Selection Tool and ... with the following settings



Make the following selections



Hit DELETE on your keyboard
Selections> Select None

 

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings

Click on the "Settings" tab and select the following

Simple (thin) - Black

Click on the "Basic" tab

change the Glow Radius to 4 and the color from Black to your Darker color
and click on ok
Rename this layer "maxime"

 

Activate the bottom layer
Rename it "flux"
Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3)
Activate the "flux" layer

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

Intensity - 15
Direction - Mix

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

Hide the 2 top flux layers for now

 

Paste your Tube as a new layer

Layers>Arrange> Bring to Top (if not already at top in your palette)

Move your Tube to the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Rename this layer "Tube"

 

Crop image 600x250 ... Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill layer Black

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

Hit DELETE on your keyboard

 

Selections> Select None ... Rename this layer "Border"

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 "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 31/03/2011 ©David Hanslip