Orange Christmas - A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need

A Tube

I used art by Freya Langford-Sidebottom

Tubes and License available from PSP Asylum

Font of Choice - I used Base:Christmas

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose Two contrasting colors for your FG/BG

New Image - 800x800

Custom Selection

Fill with one of your colors

Custom Selection

Fill with your other color

Custom Selection

Fill with your first color - Deselect

Use your Mover Tool to center your stripes

MuRa's Meister - Copies - Line Preset - Number 8

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance - Twice

Effects - Reflection Effects - Rotating Mirror

Duplicate Layer

Image - Mirror

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay or one you like Better

Merge Visible

Crop Tool - 600x250

Move to the part you want showing

I chose an area toward the bottom center

Click the green arrow to apply the crop

Get out your Magic Wand and click in an area

that you Don't want Noise on

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Tolerance 5 - Softness 20 - Add Color Range checked

Click in the Reference Color Box

Then click in the area you selected

Click ok, then ok again

Now all the areas of the same color should be selected

Selections - Invert

Duplicate this Layer twice for a total of three Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

50 - Mix checked - Hit the Mix button once for each Layer

On each of these Layers

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 80 and 7 - Deselect

Hide the top two Layers for now

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer

Place as desired - Drop Shadow of choice

Crop your Tag

New Layer

Fill with one of your colors

Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Expand 1 - Invert

Fill with your other color

You may have to zoom in

Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 80 and 7

Add your Name, CR info and License# if necessary

ANIMATION

In PSP

Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP

Hide the bottom DSB Flux layer and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP

Hide the middle DSB Flux 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!

Sample Sets:

Another, also using art by Freya Langford-Sidebottom

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