February 2, 2013 To create this Set you will need: A Tube and a Close-up I used Art by Barbara Jensen Tubes and License to use Barbara's Art available HERE
VM Instant Art - Tripolis MuRa's Meister - Copies Penta - Color Dot Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures - Swirl
Ready? Let's Begin! Choose Light and Dark Colors for your FG/BG The FG should be the Light Color Make a FG/BG Sunburst Gradient on the BG
New Image - 600x400 Fill with your gradient
VM Instant Art - Tripolis 128 76 52 136 127
Duplicate Image - Flip Change the Blend Mode to overlay Merge down
Repeat the steps in RED 3 more times Until you have something that looks something like this:
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance Add Noise - Gaussian - 17 - Monochrome Checked
Your colors will probably have changed a bit Using your Eyedropper Choose Light and Dark Colors for your FG/BG The FG should be the Light Color Make a FG/BG Sunburst Gradient on the BG Make your FG Null
Using your Rectangle Tool Draw out a small Rectangle in the middle of your Tag Objects - Align Center Image - Free Rotate - 45° Left All Layers and Rotate around Center Unchecked Convert to Raster Duplicate this Layer Twice
On the Second Copy Effects - Image Effects - Offset Horizontal Offset -235 Vertical Offset 0 Transparent Checked
On the First Copy Effects - Image Effects - Offset Horizontal Offset -116 Vertical Offset 0 Transparent Checked
DELETE THE ORIGINAL
Duplicate and Mirror Merge Down
MuRa's Meister - Copies Lines Preset Your Number may be different depending on the size of your diamond shapes Just make sure it looks something like mine
In your Materials Palette Swap your Colors Put your Gradient on the BG Make your FG Null
View - Rulers Checked Rectangle Tool Check the Draw Square Button Starting with your cursor at 100 on the Top Right Click and Drag towards the Bottom Left Objects - Align Center Convert to Raster Image - Free Rotate - 45° Left All Layers and Rotate around Center Unchecked
Penta - Color Dot - Default Settings Crop to Merged Opaque
Select All - Float - Defloat Paste your Close-Up and Move into Position Invert Selection Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow - -2, 2, 68 and 5
New Layer Fill with Black or another Dark color you like Select All Contract 3 - Delete - Expand 1 - Invert Selection Fill with your Gradient Deselect Drop Shadow - 2, 2, 100 and 5 then -2, -2, 100 and 5
Paste your Tube and give it a Blurry Drop Shadow Crop to Merged Opaque Add your Name, CR Info and License#
Animation Duplicate your Diamonds Layer Twice for a total of Three Layers On Each of these Layers Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures - Swirl Hit the Random Seed Button once for each Layer On each of these Layers Drop Shadow - -2, 2, 68 and 5 Hide the Top Two of these Layers Copy Merged and Open Animation Shop(AS) Paste as a New Animation Back in PSP Hide the Bottom Diamonds Layer Unhide the Middle one Copy Merged In AS Paste as After Current Frame Back in PSP Hide the Middle Diamonds Layer Unhide the Top one Copy Merged In AS Paste as After Current Frame Select All - Animation - Frame Properties Change the Number to 25 Save as a Gif
Let's get what we need for Forum Tag and Avatar Shift+D to Copy your Tag - Twice
On the First Copy Remove Tubes, Border, Name and CR Layers Resize to 450X300 Set your Crop Box to 150X150 Move where you want it and Hit the Arrow to Apply Add the Border and your Name or Initial Animate like we did for the Tag
On the Second Copy Remove the Border and your Main Tube Move your CR and Name Layers to the Center of the Tag Custom Selection Top - 50 Right - 600 Bottom - 350 Left - 0 Crop to Selection Add the Border Add your Tube and give it a Blurry Drop Shadow Crop to Merged Opaque Move your Name and CR Layers back into position Animate like we did for the Tag
Here's another Example also using Barbara Jensen Art
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 Fanpage
Tutorial Idea, Tags/Avis ©Shirley Franklin www.shirleyswebworks.com
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