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 In this Tutorial We're going to play with Gradients And other native PSP Effects
Ready? Let's Begin! Light Color for FG Dark Color for BG Make this Gradient on the FG
We're going to start with the regular Tag New Image - 600x400 Fill with your Gradient Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate Height and Width 10 - Symmetric Checked Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
Custom Selection Selections Invert Promote Selection to Layer Deselect
Highlight the Bottom Layer Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize Move the Hue Slider to a color to match your Tag Make the Saturation 15 The idea here is to have a little color, but not make it completely desaturated
Adjust - Add Noise Gaussian - 15 - Mono Checked Copy your Close-up and Paste as a New Layer Change the Blend Mode to Luminance Opacity to 70 or so
Highlight the Promoted Selection Layer Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5 Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer Drop Shadow - 20, 20, 100 and 100
New Layer Fill with your Dark Color Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5 Add your Name, Word Art, CR Info and License#
Highlight the Bottom Layer On the FG - Make this Gradient Now we're going to make the Gradient Layers For the Animation New Layer Move it between the BG and Close-up Layers Fill with the Gradient Adjust - Add Noise Gaussian - 15 - Mono Checked Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave Adjust - Blur - Motion Blur 45 Degrees - 100% Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance Change the Blend Mode to Screen Pull the Opacity down to 75 Duplicate this Layer - Image - Mirror and Flip Hide the Top one for now
Animation In PSP - Edit - Copy Merged In Animation Shop(AS) Paste as a New Animation In PSP - Hide the Bottom Gradient Animation Layer Un-hide the Top one and Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Select All - Frame Properties Change the Number to 50 Save as a gif and you're done!
To Make the Forum Tag New Image - 600x250 Fill with the First Gradient
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate Height and Width 10 - Symmetric Checked Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance Custom Selection Selections Invert Promote Selection to Layer Deselect
Highlight the Bottom Layer Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize Move the Hue Slider to a color to match your Tag Make the Saturation 15 Adjust - Add Noise Gaussian - 15 - Mono Checked Copy your Close-up and Paste as a New Layer Change the Blend Mode to Luminance Opacity to 70 or so
Highlight the Promoted Selection Layer Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5 Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer Drop Shadow - 20, 20, 100and 100
New Layer Fill with your Dark Color Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5 Add your Name, Word Art, CR Info and License# Make the Gradient Layers for the Animation Animate like we did for the Tag
To Make the Avatar New Image - 150x150 In your Gradient - Change the Repeats to 6 Fill with the Gradient
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate Height and Width 8 - Symmetric Checked Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance Select All - Contract 15 - Invert Promote to Selection - Deselect Highlight the BG Layer Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize Make the Saturation 15 Adjust - Add Noise Gaussian - 15 - Mono Checked New Layer Fill with your Dark Color Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5 Add your Initial Make the Gradient Layers for the Animation Animate like we did for the Tag
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 |