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Filters: Mura's Meister/Copies DSB Flux/Bright Noise
Ok let's begin Open a new image 600x250 Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 288 Bottom - 250 Left - 272 Flood Fill the Selection with a dark color from your Tube
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 304 Bottom - 250 Left - 288 Flood Fill the Selection with a light color from your Tube Selections> Select None
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Line ... change the number to 20 Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings Top - 0 Right - 600 Bottom - 250 Left - 300 Selections> Promote Selection to Layer Selections> Select None
Activate the promoted layer Image> Free Rotate ... with the following settings Direction - Left Degrees - Free - 45 All layers - unchecked Rotate single layer around canvas center - unchecked
Effects> Image Effects> Offset ... with the following settings Horizontal Offset - 167 Vertical Offset - 143 Custom - checked Edge Mode - Transparent
Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... with the following settings Vertical - 2 Horizontal - -2 Opacity - 50 Blur - 3 Color - your choice
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Image> Flip Merge the original and duplicate layers together Rename this layer "triangles" Crop image 600x250
Activate your background layer & rename it "background" Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3) Select your Magic Wand tool ... with the following settings Mode - Add(shift) Match Mode - color Tolerance - 10 Feather - 0
Click inside some of your lighter colored lines (in mine I selected every 2nd red line)
Activate the Bottom background layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings Intensity - 26 Direction - Mix Activate the Middle background layer
Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... click the Mix button once Activate the Top background layer Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... click the Mix button once Selections> Select None
Activate the triangles layer Repeat what you just did with the background layer
Paste your Tube as a new layer In your layer palette move this layer between the "Copy (2) of background" and "triangles" layers Position your Tube to your liking and apply a suitable Drop Shadow Crop image 600x250
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Flood Fill this layer with a light color from your Tube Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 3 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Modify> Expand ... by 2 Selections> Invert
Flood Fill the Selection with your dark color ... Selections> Select None Add Copyrights and your Name Hide the top & middle background layers and also the top and middle triangle layers
ANIMATING Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> Paste As New Animation Return to PSP and hide the Bottom background and triangle layers and unhide the Middle ones ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go Back to Animation Shop Paste> Paste> After Current Frame Return to PSP and hide the Middle background and triangle layers and unhide the Top ones ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged
Go Back to Animation Shop ... Paste> 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
Tutorial written on 24/07/2011©David Hanslip |