To create this Set you will need A Tube I used art by Barbara Jensen Tubes and License available Here DSB Flux - Bright Noise Greg's Factory Output 2 - Pool Shadow
Ready? Let's Begin! Choose two Colors from your Tube as FG/BG New Image - 600x400 Fill with one of your Colors Greg's Pool Shadow All Sliders at 50 If it's too Dark, you can raise the Lightness a little
Duplicate this Layer Three times for a Total of Three Layers On each of these Layers DSB Flux - Bright Noise 18 - Mix checked Hit the Mix button once for each Layer
Select the Top Layer Make your Background Black or some other Dark Color Foreground Null Pull your Image top and bottom so it looks like this
Rectangle Tool Draw out a rectangle Taller than your Tag Image - Free Rotate 25 Degrees right All Layers and Rotate - Unchecked It should look like this
You may have to use your Pick Tool to Pull it out and Move it to where you want it Convert to Raster and Crop to Merged Opaque
Select All - Float - Defloat New Layer Fill with another Color from your Tube Deselect Image - Mirror Now it should look like this
You should still have your Colored Angle Layer Selected Effects - Texture Effects - Weave Gap - 1 Width - 2 Opacity - 1 Both Colors your Dark Color Fill Gaps Checked Image - Mirror and Flip
Duplicate the First Angle Layer Image - Mirror and Flip Now it should look like this
Select the Layer with the Dark Angle on the right Select All - Float - Defloat Select the Layer with the Colored Angle on the Right Use your Eraser Tool
Erase so the Dark Angle Shows Through
Add a Drop Shadow to each of the Angle Layers 0, 0, 100 and 10
Add your Tube - Give it the same Drop Shadow Add your Name, CR Info and License#
New Layer Fill with your Dark Color Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 100 and 5
Now Let's get what we need for the Forum Tag and Avatar Shift+D to Copy your Tag - Twice
Using the First Copy We'll make the Avatar Delete Art, Name, CR info and Border Layers Set your Crop Tool to 150 x 150 Move to where you want it Hit the green arrow to apply Add the Border and your Initial Set this aside for now
Using the Second Copy Remove the Border Layer Custom Selection Top - 0 Left - 0 Bottom - 250 Right - 600 Move the elements of your Tag Inside the Selection where you want them Don't forget your CR Info Crop to Selection Add the Border Set this aside for now
ANIMATION Starting with the Tag Make sure all Layers are Visible Edit - Copy Merged Open Animation Shop (AS) Paste as a New Animation Back in PSP Hide the Top BG Layer Edit - Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Back in PSP Hide the Middle BG Layer Edit - Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Edit - Select All Save as a gif Animate the Forum Tag and Avatar the same way
Here is another Set, also using Art by Barbara Jensen
If you try any of my Tutorials I would love to see what you made! Please leave a link in the comments section on my Blog
Tutorial Idea, Tags/Avis ©Shirley Franklin www.shirleyswebworks.com
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