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You will need:

Font of your choice

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Ismael Rac

License and Tubes available now available at Scraps and Company

My selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder


Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies

Eye Candy 6: Textures/Weave

 

 

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250

Flood Fill layer with a color from your Tube

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Weave

Click on the "Settings" tab and select the following

Textures - Polo Shirt

Click on the "Basic" tab and match these settings

Click the Random Seed button once

 

 

Layers> New Raster Layer

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial

(Spawns-WeavedLines)

 

 

Flood Fill the Selection with another color from your Tube

Selections> Select None

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ...*Line ... change Numer to 4

 

 

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3

Activate the Bottom copies layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Weave ... same settings as before

Click the Random Seed button once

Activate the Middle copies layer

 

 

Edit> Repeat Weave ... Click the Random Seed button once

Activate the Top copies layer

Edit> Repeat Weave ... Click the Random Seed button once

 

 

Apply the following Drop Shadow to all 3 copies layers

Vertical - 0

Horizontal - 0

Opacity - 100

Blur - 4

Color - Black

 

 

Paste your Tube as a new layer

Drag this layer to above your background layer in your layer palette

Position to your liking and change the layers Blend Mode to Luminance(L)

or Luminance, and lower the Opacity to around 70%

 

 

Paste your Tube as a new layer

Move this layer to the top in your layer palette and position to your liking

Apply a suitable Drop Shadow

 

 

Layers> New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with a 3rd color from your Tube

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 2

Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None

 

 

Hide the middle and top copies layers for now

Add Copyrights and your Name

 

 

 

ANIMATING

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Now open Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Return to PSP hide the bottom copies layer and unhide the middle copies layer

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

 

Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Return to PSP hide the

middle copies layer " layer and unhide the top copies layer

 

 

Edit> Copy Special> Copy MergedGo back to Animation Shop

Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Edit>Select All

Animation> Frame Properties ... change from 10 to 13 and click OK

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 23/07/2011 ©David Hanslip