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You will need: Font of your choice Close Up and Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of KT Bryan This artist is not currently selling their art in Tube Format
Please Note: The animation was created in Animation Shop but tag saved in Photoshop CS5 because it gives a better result and appears less grainy
Ok let's begin Open a new image 600x250 Go to your Tube image ... Edit> Copy Go back to your blank canvas ... Edit> Paste As New Layer Move your Tube to the left side like so
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Merge these two layers together Layers> New Raster Layer Activate your Selection Tool with Rectangle as the Selection Type and Feather at 0 Draw out a rectangle like so
Activate your Flood Fill Tool change your Background and Foreground to two colors from your Tube and then click on your Foreground again and change it to Gradient ... with the following settings Style - Linear Angle - 0 Repeats - 1 Invert - unchecked
Flood Fill the Selection with this Gradient Go to your Close Up image ... Edit> Copy Go back to your Tag ... Edit> Paste As New Layer
Position suitably over the Selection Selections> Invert ... hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None ... Crop image 600x250 Change the Close Up layers Blend Mode to Soft Light or one suitable Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings
Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Layers> New Raster Layer Flood Fill the Selection with the color Black Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 and hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None
Activate the Tube layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Add copyrights and your Name Hide the Bottom layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible Unhide the Bottom layer and with it active ... Edit> Copy
Open Animation Shop Edit> Paste> As New Animation Effects> Insert Image Effects
Click on the Customize button
Change the first 7 waves to the following Wave 1: X -30 ... Y 60 Wave 2: X 30 ... Y 60 Wave 3: X -60 ... Y -44 Wave 4: X 60 ... Y -44 Wave 5: X 0 ... Y -65 Wave 6: X -60 ... Y 30 Wave 7: X 60 ... Y 30
Set all other waves to X 0 ... Y 0 DELETE the first Frame
Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy ... Close the image Go back to you PSP ... Edit> Paste As New Image
Image> Canvas Size ... with the following settings Lock aspect ratio - unchecked Width - 600 Height - 250 dropdown box on Pixels Placement - centered (diamond in the middle)
Go to your original tag and activate the Top layer Edit> Copy Go to your image with the animated layers Edit> Paste As New Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Hide all the animation layers apart from the bottom one Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill this layer White Layers> Arrange> Send to Bottom Save your image in PSD format
ANIMATING
(ignore the text regarding layers) Instead of setting the delay at 0.5 like in the tut set it to 0.2
Tutorial written on 22/09/2011 ©David Hanslip |