Helion - A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both available from Corel

A Tube and a Close-Up

I used Art by Ismael Rac

Tubes and License available from his Store

Do not use this art without a proper license

Font of choice - I used Beau Rivage

Filter Factory S - Pathway to Helion

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose a light color for your FG

Choose a dark color for your BG

Make a FG/BG Gradient on the FG

Angle 0 - Repeats 0

New Image - 600x250

Fill with your Gradient

Filter Factory S - Pathway to Helion

Power 0 - All others 255

Edge Effects - Enhance - Twice

Magic Wand - RGB Value - Add (Shift)

Tolerance 20 - Feather 2

Select these areas:

Duplicate Layer Twice for a total of Three Layers

On each of these Layers - DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Mix - 40

Hit the Mix Button once for each of these Layers

Deselect

Highlight the top Layer

Make your BG the darker color and your FG Null

Ellipse Tool - Set Mode to Draw Circle

Hold down your Shift key and draw a circle that's taller than your canvas

**Holding the Shift Key constrains the shape to a circle**

Objects - Align - Center in Canvas

Convert to Raster

Get out your Move Tool - Click once in the middle of your Circle

Use the left Arrow Key to Move the Circle to the Left side of the Tag

Duplicate your Circle - Resize 75 to 80%

It really depends on how big you made the original circle

Click once in the middle of your Duplicate

Use the Right Arrow Key to Move the Circle to the Right side of the Tag

On Both Circles - Texture Effects - Blinds

Highlight the small Circle layer

Select All - Float - Defloat

Paste your Close-Up as a New Layer and Position inside the circle

Selections - Invert - Highlight the Tube Layer - Delete - Deselect

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light - Merge Down

Add this Drop Shadow to both Circles - 0, 0, 63 and 16

New Layer - Fill with a darker color to match your Tube

Select All - Contract 5 - Delete

Expand 1 - Invert - Fill with a light color - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 85 and 5

Paste your Tube as a New Layer

Send to Top if it's not already there

Move left and give it a Blurry Drop Shadow

Crop your Tag

New Layer - Fill with a dark color

Select All - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Add your Name, CR Info and License Number if necessary

Hide your three DSB Fluxed BG Layers and Merge Visible

ANIMATION

Hide your top two DSB Flux layers - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP- Hide the bottom and top DSB Flux layers and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP- Hide the bottom and middle DSB Flux layers 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:

The Set that inspired this Tutorial - Art by Jennifer Janesko

Tubes and License to use her Art are available at CDO

If you try this or any of my Tutorials,

I would love to see what you made!

Please leave a link in the comments section on my Blog