NOTE:
This tag looks jumpy when loaded onto the tut but the animation is a lot smoother on the actual tag.

This tutorial was written by Monti on December 21st 2006. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

PLEASE NOTE:
None of my tutorials or Scrap Kits are allowed to be used for tags being bought by My PSP Tubes or for any other form of monetary gain.
This goes against the artists TOU that I use for my tuts and against my TOU.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop

Eye Candy 3.1 Glass: optional

Font of your choice.
(I used International Palms)

A tube of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Deacon Black. You can purchase a license to use his work from CILM.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.


Step 1:

Open a new image 500 x 500 transparent image and flood fill with white.
Open your tube, copy and paste the tube as a new layer on your white canvas. resize if neccessary.
Add a Drop Shadow of your choice. I used
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 5
Opacity = 40
Blur = 8
Colour = Black


Step 2:

Click on your bottom layer to activate it.
Set your background to a medium colour from your tube, and null your foreground.
Activate your presets shapes and choose the circle or another shape of your choice. Experiment with different shapes.
Make sure Antialias and Create as Vector are checked.
Draw out 4 large Circles (or whatever shape you chose) around your tube, converting each one to a raster layer before doing the next.
Move them around until you are happy with their placement.
See the screen shot below for an example of placement.


Hide the tube and background layers, merge visible and rename Medium.

Step 3:

Change your background to a dark colour from your tube, and null your foreground.
Use the same shape and settings and create smaller shapes varying the sizes slightly and converting each one to a raster layer before doing the next.
Move them around until you are happy with their placement.
Hide the tube, background and Medium layers, merge visible and rename Dark.

Step 4:

Change your background to a light colour from your tube, and null your foreground.
Use the same shape and settings and create smaller shapes to fill in the gaps, varying the sizes slightly and converting each one to a raster layer before doing the next.
Move them around until you are happy with their placement.
Hide the tube, background, Medium and Dark layers, merge visible and rename Light.

Step 5:

Click on the top tube layer to activate it.
Select your text tool, Vector selected with a font of your choice (I used International Palms ) and set your foreground to the dark colour you used and the background to the light colour.
I had my Stroke set to 1 and Bold Selected.
Type your name, use your nodes to stretch it to fit.
Convert to raster layer and add your favourite Inner Bevel.
I used the following Inner Bevel and Eye Candy 3.1 Glass setting.



Add the following Drop Shadow.
Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 40
Blur = 4
Colour = Black
Add the artists copyright and your watermark.

Step 6:

Open Animation Shop.
Back in PSP click on your Medium layer to activate it and add the following drop shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 30
Blur = 3
Colour = Black

Repeat the Drop Shadow on the Dark and Light Layers.
Go to Edit - Copy Merged and paste as a new animation is Animation Shop.
Back in PSP go to Edit - Undo (5 Times) until you have undone all your Drop Shadows.

Step 7:

Click on your Medium layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Dark colour. Deselect and rename Dark1.

Click on your Dark layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Light colour. Deselect and rename Light1.

Click on your Light layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Medium colour. Deselect and rename Medium1.

Delete your original Medium, Dark and Light layers.
Add the Drop Shadow to the Dark1, Medium1 and Light1 layers.
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 30
Blur = 3
Colour = Black

Go to Edit - Copy Merged. In Animation Shop right click on the first image and choose Paste After Current Frame.
Back in PSP go to Edit - Undo (5 Times) until you have undone all your Drop Shadows.

Step 8:

Click on your Dark1 layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Light colour. Deselect and rename Light2.

Click on your Light1 layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Medium colour. Deselect and rename Medium2.

Click on your Medium1 layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select All - Float.
Add a new Raster Layer and fill with your Dark colour. Deselect and rename Dark2.

Delete your Dark1, Light1 and Medium1 layers.
Add the Drop Shadow to the Light2, Medium2 and Dark2 layers.
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 30
Blur = 3
Colour = Black

Go to Edit - Copy Merged. In Animation Shop right click on the second frame and choose Paste After Current Frame.

Crop off any excess white area.
Go to Edit - Select All and change the Frame Properties to 25.

Resize if neccessary and save as a .gif





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