To create this Set you will need

A Tube and a Close-up

I used Art by Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License available HERE

No outside Filters are needed

Shamrock tube, made by me HERE (optional)

 

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose a Light Color for your FG

Choose a Dark or Contrasting Color for your BG

Make this Gradient on the FG

 

New Image - 800x600

Fill with your Gradient

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate

Width and Height 10 - Symmetric Checked

 

Magic Wand Tool

Mode Add(Shift) - Match Mode RGB Value

Tolerance and Feather 0

Click inside one of the Darkest Areas

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Tolerance 10 - Softness 0

Add color range Checked

Click inside the area you have selected

Click OK

Promote Selection to Layer - Deselect

Highlight your BG Layer

Click inside one of the Lightest Areas

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Tolerance 10 - Softness 0

Add color range Checked

Click inside the area you have selected

Click OK

Promote Selection to Layer - Deselect

Merge the Promoted Selection Layers together

 

Effects - Distortion Effects - Curlicues

Image - Free Rotate

Left - 45 degrees

 

Crop Tool - 600x400

Move your Crop Box to the Upper Left Corner

Click the Green Arrow to Apply

 

Freehand Selection Tool

Type Point-to-point - Mode add(shift)

Feather and Smoothing 0

Make this Selection

Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 50 and 20

 

If you're using my Shamrock

Resize and Paste in the center of one of your curlicues

Add Noise - Gaussian - 65 - Mono Checked

Duplicate this Layer and Move to the center of another curlicue

Repeat this until you have shamrocks in the center of all your curlicues

Merge your shamrock Layers together

 

Now we're going to work on the Background

Effects - Illumination Effects - Lights

Tick the little #1 Box and make the Settings like mine

Change color to match your Tag

Preview Button should be checked so you can see what you're doing

Tick the little #2 Box

Change the color to a lighter shade of the color in the #1 Box

Tick the little #3 Box

Change the color to a Contrasting one

Tick the little #4 Box

Change the color to another color

Tick the little #5 Box

Change the color to a light shade of the #3 Color

Play with the Colors to get the Effect you want

 

Copy your Close-up and Paste as a New Layer

Move it to just above the BG

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light

or a different one you like better

 

Highlight the Curlicues Layer

Use your Magic Wand Tool to Select the Light Colored Bars

Duplicate this Layer twice for a total of Three Layers

On the Bottom one

Adjust - Add Noise - Gaussian - 20 - Mono Checked

On the Middle one

Add Noise - Change the Number to 24

On the Top one

Add Noise - Change the Number to 28

Hide the Top two of these Layers for now

Deselect

 

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer

Arrange - Bring to Top - Position as Desired

Give it a Blurry Drop Shadow

New Layer - Fill with Dark Color - Select All

Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

 

Now let's get what we need for our Forum Tag and Avi

Shift+D to copy your Tag - TWICE

 

On the First Copy

Delete the Art and Border layers

Crop Tool set to 150x150

Move it to where you want it

Hit the green check mark to apply

Add the Border

Add your Initial

Animate like we will for the Tag

This is your Avi

 

On the Second Copy

Delete the Border Layer

Custom Selection

Move your Tubes around to get them where you want them

Inside the Selection

Crop to Selection

Add the Border

Add your name, CR Info and License#

Animate like we will for the tag

This is your Forum Tag

 

Back to our Tag

Add your name, CR Info and License#

 

ANIMATION

In PSP - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP

Hide the bottom Curlicues layer and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP

Hide the middle Curlicues layer and unhide the top one

Edit-copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste after current frame

View animation - If you like it, save as a gif and you're done!

 

Another Sample

Also with 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