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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.

Go to Edit - Select All and copy and paste your image into the selection.
Deselect.
If you want to and the artist allows you colourize it to your choice.
Select your text tool with the following settings.
AeroJonesNF font - Size 100 - Stroke 3 - Kerning 75 - Stroke colour White Background NUll - Vector selected.
Type out your name and use your nodes to stretch it to fit the center of the canvas. Use my tag as a guide.
Convert to Raster Layer.
Select the Magic Wand - Add (shift) mode - Tolerance 10 - Feather 0 and click inside each of the letters of your name.
Go to Selections - Modify expand by 2.
Activate your image layer in the layer palette and go to Selections - Promote to layer.
Deselect and change the blend mode of the promoted layer to Overlay.


Step 2:

Open a new Image 470 x 55 and flood fill with white.
Go to Selections - Select all - Float - Selections - Modify - Contract by 2 and hit delete on your keyboard.
Go to Edit - Copy and paste as a new layer on your main canvas.
Use your mover tool to move it up above your name as shown below.


Duplicate this new layer and go to Image - Flip.
Hide your background layer, promoted layer and text layer and merge the 2 rectangle layers visible.
Select your Magic Wand with the same settings we used earlier and click inside each of the rectangles.
Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 1.
Activate the bottom layer and promote the selected area to layer.
Change the blend mode of the new promoted layer to Overlay and deselect.
On a new layer add the artist's copyright and your watermark and then merge Visible.
Go to Image - Add Borders and add a 2 pixel white border.

You can either save it as a .jpg or open Animation Shop and copy and paste it into animation shop to animate.


Step 3: Animation

In Animation Shop open a new 460 x 50 transparent image.
Go to Effects - Insert Text Effect and use the settings shown below. DO NOT click ok just yet.


Click on Font and use the settings shown below.


Click on Customise (under the marquee settings and make sure text is centered.


Now click ok.

On the text image activate Frame 1 and delete it. You should now have 8 frames.
Go to Edit - Select All.
Activate your main image and duplicate it until you have 8 frames of that too.
Go to Edit - Select All.

Copy the text and paste it into the main image, lining up the text in the top rectangle. The text will come in from the right so look there to line it up.
Go back to your text image and then go to Animation - Reverse Frames.
Go to Edit - Copy.

Go back to your main image and Paste Into Selected Frames. lining up the text in the bottom rectangle. The text will come in from the left so look there to line it up.

Play around with the Frame Properties until you are happy with it.
NOTE: The higher the properties the slower the animation.
I set mine to 25 for the pink tag.

Save as a gif.

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