First time trying one of my Tutorials? Then please check my Terms of Use before you continue You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called BirchCTT Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Nicole Brune License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet
Filters: Xero/Fritillary Mura's Meister/Copies DSB Flux/Bright Noise
Ok let's begin Change your Foreground to a color from your Tube and your Background to White Click on your Foreground and change it to Gradient ... with the following settings Foreground/Background Angle - 90 ... Repeats - 0
Open a New Image 600x250 ... Flood Fill with your Gradient ... Change your Foreground back to Color Effects> Xero> Fritillary ... with the following settings
Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Layers> New Raster Layer Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color ... rename this layer Frame1 Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color ... rename this layer Frame2 Selections> Modify> Contract by 7 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Activate the Frame1 layer ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None
Image> Free Rotate ... with the following settings
Activate the Frame2 layer Image> Free Rotate ... with the same settings as above ... Image> Mirror Hide the Frame2 layer for the moment and Activate the Frame1 layer Select your Magic Wand Tool ... with the following settings
Click once inside the Frame Selections> Modify> Expand by 4 ... Layers> New Raster Layer Flood Fill this Selection with your Background color Selections> Select None ... Layers> Arrange> Move Down ... Rename this layer BG1 Adjust> Brightness and Contrast> Brightness/Contrast ... with the following settings
Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings
Unhide and Activate the Frame2 layer Select your Magic Wand Tool ... with the same settings as before Click once inside the Frame (the one on the Right of course) Selections> Modify> Expand by 4 ... Layers> New Raster Layer Flood Fill this Selection with your Foreground color Selections> Select None ... Layers> Arrange> Move Down ... Rename this layer BG2 Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the same settings as earlier
Activate the Frame2 layer Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Rename this layer CT1 Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line ... change the Number to 5 Layers> Duplicate ... Rename the Duplicate CT2 ... Hide this layer for the moment
Activate the BG1 layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Activate the CT1 layer and position it so that what you want to keep is inside the Selection Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None In your Layer Palette move this layer between the Frame1 and BG1 layers
Unhide the CT2 layer Activate the BG2 layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Activate the CT2 layer and position it so that what you want to keep is inside the Selection Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None In your Layer Palette move this layer between the Frame2 and BG2 layers
Change the Blend Mode to Luminance(L) and the Opacity to 70% on the CT1 and C2 layers
Activate the Frame2 layer Paste your Tube as a New Layer, position in the Middle of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of choice Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 1 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None ... Add Copyrights and your Name
Apply the following Drop Shadow to each of the BG layers twice ... 0, 0, 100, 14, Black Selections> Select All ... Selections> Clip to Canvas ... Image> Crop to Selection Activate the Frame1 layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings
Activate the Frame2 layer ... Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3) Activate the Frame2 layer again Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings
Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok Activate the Copy (2) of Frame2 layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok Hide the 2 top Frame2 layers for now
ANIMATING
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 also using the artwork of Nicole Brune On this one before doing the Animating I mirrored each of the BG layers then swapped their positions in the Layer Palette
Tutorial written on the 06/07/2013 ©David Hanslip |