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You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called TNG Monitors Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Jessica Dougherty License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet
Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies
Ok let's begin Change your Foreground to a Dark color from your Tube Change your Background to a Light color from your Tube Click on your Foreground again & change to Gradient ... with the following settings
Open a New Image 600x250 Flood Fill with your Gradient ... Rename this layer Pix Duplicate this layer three times (for a total of 4) Rename the Top layer FG
Activate the Pix layer Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings
Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Edit> Repeat Enhance Edges
Activate the Copy of Pix layer Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings
Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Edit> Repeat Enhance Edges
Activate the Copy (2) of Pix layer Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings
Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance ... Edit> Repeat Enhance Edges
Activate the FG layer ... Image> Flip ... Layers> New Raster Layer Image> Canvas Size ... with the following settings
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Flood Fill with any color ... Selections> Select None Image> Free Rotate ... with the following settings
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line ... Default Settings Effects> Image Effects> Offset ... with the following settings
Activate your Freehand Selection Tool and draw around the four lines on the left like so
Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Activate the FG layer ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None ... Delete the Top layer
Activate the FG layer (if it aint already) Effects> Distortion Effects> Pixelate ... with the following settings
Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 0,0, 100, 5 and a suitable color
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Image> Crop to Selection
Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... position in the middle of your Tag ... Apply a suitable Drop Shadow Layers> Duplicate ... Move the Duplicate to the Right of the original Tube Change the layers Blend Mode to Luminance and lower the Opacity (I lowered to 50%) Layers> Arrange> Move Down
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring To Top Flood Fill layer with your Dark color Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 2 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING
Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Edit> Select All ... Edit> Duplicate Selected Edit> Select None ... Click on Frame 4 ... Hold down Shift on your keyboard and click on Frame 6 Frames 4, 5, 6 should now be selected ... Animation> Reverse Frames
Return to PSP and hide all the Pix layers ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation Hold down CTRL and keep pressing L until you have 6 layers Edit> Select All ... Edit Copy
Activate the other image ... Edit> Select All Edit Paste Into Selected Frame ... Move into position and click once 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
Tutorial written on the 06/03/ 2012©David Hanslip |
