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 Action Is Tube or Close Up of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Arthur Crowe License and Tubes available at Arthur Crowe's Factory This particular Tube is a TD EXCLUSIVE (TaggersDen) And My Selection which you can get HERE ... Unzip into your Selections Folder
Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies Penta/Dot and Cross DSB Flux/Bright Noise
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 600x250 Set your Foreground and Background to two light colors from your Tube Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Flood Fill this Selection with your Foreground color
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Flood Fill this Selection with your Background color Selections> Select None
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... Tiling ... change Number to 2
Layers> Duplicate ... Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial (Spawns-SantasHelper) Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Activate the Bottom layer Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings
Selections> Modify> Select Color Range ... with the following settings
Effects> Penta> Dot and Cross ... with the following settings
Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 3, 3, 50, 5, Black Activate the Top Layer ... Selections> Invert ... Effects> Penta> Dot and Cross ... same settings as before
Selections> Invert ... Rename this layer flux and Duplicate it twice for a total of three Activate the flux layer again Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings
Activate the "Copy of flux" layer ... Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok Activate the "Copy (2) of flux" layer ... Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... Click on the Mix button once then on ok
Apply a Drop Shadow to each of the three flux layers with the same settings as earlier Selections> Select None ... Load my Selection again and on each of the flux layers hit Delete Selections> Select None (this step may not appear to be doing anything but trust me it is lol)
Apply Drop Shadow to the three flux layer again but this time change the Vertical and Horizontal to -3 Hide the top two flux layers for now
Paste your Close Up or Tube as a New Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Position on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Move this layer below the flux layer in your layer palette and change the Blend mode to Soft Light or one suitable
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Flood Fill this layer with your Background color ... Selections> Select All Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Modify> Expand ... by 1 ... Selections> Invert Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color ... Selections> Select None
Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING
Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame
Tutorial written on 09/12/2011 ©David Hanslip |