Jagged - A 3-Piece Forum Set Tutorial

January 28, 2013

To create this Set you will need:

A Tube and a Close-up

I used Art by Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License to use Barbara's Art available HERE

VM Distortion - Mosaic Ripple

VM Extravaganza - Vasarelly

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Xero - Radiance

Ready?

Let's Begin!

New Image - 600x600

Choose a Medium-Dark color for your FG

Choose a Light Shade of you FG color for your BG

Make this Gradient on the FG:

Fill with this Gradient

Resize to 600x400

VM Distortion - Mosaic Ripple

Size 22 - Amount 176

Duplicate this Layer Twice

On the Top Layer

Magic Wand Tool

Click in each of the 4 Corners until you have something like this:

Selections - Invert

Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 60 and 20

Highlight your Middle Layer

VM Extravaganza - Vasarelly

From the Top

128

Magic Wand Tool

Same Settings as Before

Click in a Black area

Delete - Deselect

Custom Selection

Invert Selection

Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 5, -5, 30 and 5

Duplicate this Layer Twice for a Total of Three Layers

On each of these:

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

43 - Mix Checked

Hit the Mix button once for each Layer

Hide the Top Two of these Layers

Select your Bottom Layer

Copy your Close-up and Paste as a New Layer

Move into Position

Xero - Radiance - Default Settings

Change the Blend Mode to Hard Light or one you like better

Pull the Opacity down to around 50

Let's get what we need for the Forum Tag and Avatar

Shift+D to duplicate your Tag Twice

On the First Copy

Delete the Art Layers

Resize to 400x300

Sharpen the Bright Noise Layers

Set your Crop Tool to 150x150

Move the Crop Box to where you want it

Hit the Arrow to Apply

Set this aside for now

This is your Avatar

On the Second Copy

Custom Selection

Move the Tubes so they're where you want them INSIDE the Selection

Image - Crop to Selection

Set this aside for now

This is your Forum Tag

Let's finish the Tag now

Select the Layer just below the Main Tube

Add a New Raster Layer

Fill with your Light Color

Select All - Contract 6 - Delete

Keep Selected

Expand 1 - Invert

Fill with your Dark Color

Invert

Keep Selected

Expand 1 - Invert

Fill with your Light Color

Invert

Expand 1 - Invert

Fill with your Dark Color

Deselect

Drop Shadow - 2, 2, 100 and 5 then -2, -2, 100 and 5

Add your Name, CR Info and License#

ANIMATION

Start with the Tag

The Top two Noise Layers should be Hidden

Edit - Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop(AS)

Paste as a New Animation

Back in PSP

Hide the Bottom Noise Layer

Un-hide the Middle one

Edit - Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop(AS)

Paste as After Current Frame

Back in PSP

Hide the Middle Noise Layer

Un-hide the Top one

Edit - Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop(AS)

Paste as After Current Frame

Same as a Gif

To Finish the Forum Tag and Avatar

Add the Border

Add your Name/Initial, CR Info and License

Animate like we did the Tag

Another Sample

Also using 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 Fanpage