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