Grid Warp- A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both available HERE

A Tube

I used art by Jennifer Janesko

Tubes and License

available at CDO

Krusty's Vol 1 1.0 - Transparency Grid

Xero - Porcelain

Font of Choice

Ready?

Let's Begin!

FG Black - BG White

This is important - if you try to use color at this point, it won't look the same

We will add color later

Make a gradient on the FG

New Image - 600x250

Fill with your gradient

Krusty's Vol 1 1.0 - Transparency Grid

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 50 and 2

New Layer - Fill with White - Send to Bottom

Duplicate the BG Layer Twice for a total of three Layers

On the top of these Layers

Adjust - Add Noise - Uniform - 65 - Mono checked

On the middle Layer

Adjust - Add Noise - Uniform - 64 - Mono checked

On the bottom Layer

Adjust - Add Noise - Uniform - 63 - Mono checked

New Layer - Send to Top

Selection Tool - Custom Selection

Fill with white - Deselect

Xero - Porcelain - All at Default, but the Blue set to 0

Same Drop Shadow as before

On this Custom Selection Layer and the Transparency Grid Layer

Distortion Effects - Warp

Repeat the Drop Shadow on both Layers

Now it's time to add some color if you wish

You can use whatever method you wish

This is how I did it

On ALL layers

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize

Saturation 255 - Hue should be a color to match your Tube

Copy and Paste your Tube as a new Layer on your Tag

Send to top if it's not already there

Position as desired - Give it a blurry Drop Shadow

New Layer - Fill with a dark color

Select All - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Time to add your Name, CR Info and License# if necessary

Hide your Three BG Layers and Merge Visible

AVATAR

Shift+D to copy your Tag

Set your Crop Tool to 150x150

Move to where you want it and hit the green arrow

If you have Art in the Avi - Add CR Info

Add your Initial

Animate as for the Tag

ANIMATION

Hide your top two BG layers - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP- Hide the bottom BG layer and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP- Hide the middle BG 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 Set

If you try this or any of my Tutorials, I would love to see your results!

Please leave a link in the comments section on my Blog