Bonnie Jill - A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need:

A Tube and a Close-Up

I used art by Jennifer Janesko

Tubes and License available from CDO

Element made by me HERE

Credit is not necessary on your finished Tag

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Textures - Swirl

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:Impact - Chrome (optional)

DSB Flux - Bright Noise (optional)

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Ready?

Let's Begin

FG - Light color from your Tube

BG - Darker shade of FG color

Make a Sunburst Gradient on the FG

Repeats - 0

H & V - 50

Link checked

New Image - 100 x 50

Fill with your Gradient

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Textures - Swirl

Image - Canvas Size - 600 x 250

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Line Preset - Change the number to 7

Repeat, but change Shift X to 0 and Shift Y to 100

The entire background should be covered now

Copy your Close-Up and Paste as a New Layer on your Tag

Place as desired and change the Blend Mode to Soft Light

Crop to 600 x 250

Copy the Element and Paste as a New Layer on your Tag

Place as Desired

The Element is Grayscaled, so you can do whatever you want with it

For the first Sample

Duplicate the Element Layer twice for a total of three Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

25 - Mix checked - On each of the three Layers

Paste your Tube as a New Layer - Send to Top

Give it a blurry drop shadow

Crop your Tag

Add your Name, CR info and a 1 pixel border

Animate as usual

See HERE for a mini-tut explaining the process if necessary

For the second Sample

On the Element

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:Impact - Chrome - Black Latex preset

Paste your Tube as a New Layer - Send to Top

Give it a blurry drop shadow

Crop your Tag

Add your Name, CR info and a 1 pixel border

Save as a JPG

Sample Sets:

I love seeing results when people try my Tuts!

Please leave any feedback and the link to your

Results in the comments on my Blog