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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Emerge

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Hallan Moulin


Filters:

VM Toolbox/Trimosaic

dsb flux/Bright Noise

 

 


Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250

Change your Foreground and Background color to two colors from your Tube

Click your Foreground color again and make a gradient using these settings



Flood Fill image with this Gradient

 

Effects> VM Toolbox> Trimosaic ... with the following settings



Duplicate the layer 3 times (for a total of 4)

 

Rename the layers as follows, from Top to bottom

foreground
flux 3
flux 2
flux 1

Activate the "flux 1" layer

 

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... with the following settings



Activate the "flux 2" layer

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

Activate the "flux 3" layer

Effects> dsb flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok

 

Activate the "foreground" layer

Select your Magic Wand Tool ... with these settings



Click anywhere in your image

 

Selections> Modify> Color Range ... with these settings



For reference color click in left corner of your image like so



 

Now your tag should look something like this



Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Load/Save Selection> Save Selection To Alpha Channel ..... Name it "Trim"

 

Selections> Select None ... Paste your Tube as a new layer

In your layer palette move this layer to the top and rename it "Tube"

Move into a position on the Right side of the tag that you are happy with

and add a Drop Shadow of choice

 

Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror

Drag the "Copy of Tube" layer below the "Tube" layer

With the "Copy of Tube" layer Active lower the Opacity to about 65%

Selections> Load/Save Selection> Load Selection From Alpha Channel

select Trim which you saved earlier ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

 

Crop Image to 600x250 ... Layers> New Raster Layer ... drag to top in layer palette

Selections> Select All

Selections> Modify> Select Selection Borders ... with the following settings



Flood Fill Selection with a color from your Tube

 

Selections> Select None ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Layers> Merge> Merge Down ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

You should now have the following layers

foreground
(which is now foreground, Tubes and Frame all merged together)

flux 2
flux 1

Add Copyrights and your Name

Now it’s time to save your Tag ready to be animated

File> Save As ... under "File Type" choose PSP Animation Shop (*psp.)

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Tutorial written on 17/01/2011 ©David Hanslip