Pixelate (2011)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called ThaliaItalic

Tube and Close Up of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Michael Landefeld

License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet

Any animation of your choice - I used one called whitepuff by Lovey which you can get HERE

Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250 and Paste your Tube as a New Layer

Effect> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Wall Paper(rotate) ... default settings

If your canvas is not covered then Edit> Repeat Copies ... with the same settings

Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings

Crop Image 600x250

Layers> Duplicate ... Adjust> Blur> Radial Blur ... with the following settings

Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Edit> Repeat Enhance Edges

Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

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

Lower this layers Opacity to around 75% and apply a Drop Shadow

(I used 0,0,100,10,Black ... Applied twice)

Merge these two layers together

Paste your Close Up as a New Layer ... position on either the left or right

Apply a suitable Drop Shadow ... Crop Image 600x250

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

Selections> Select All ...Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 2 or 3 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

Add Copyrights and your Name ... Crop Image 600x250

ANIMATING

Open up your animation in Animation Shop

(if using the same one as me delete the first two frames - you should be left with 15)

Edit> Select All ... Animation> Resize Animation

Make sure the Maintain Aspect Ratio box is check then, click the lil circle next to

Pixel Size then change the Height to 250 and click OK

Go back to PSP activate the bottom layer ... Edit> Copy ... hide this layer

Return to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Hold down CTRL and press keep pressing L until you have the same amount of frames as your animation has

Activate your Animation ... Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy

Activate the background frames Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames

move into position and click once to place

Check the positioning is ok View> Animation, once happy close the preview and now you can close the

original animation frames as they no longer needed

Go back to PSP ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Return to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Hold down CTRL and press keep pressing L until you have the same amount of frames as your Tag

Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy

Activate the Tag frames Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames

Move into position and click once to place

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 by my friend Sezy