Lightlines Two - A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will Need

A Tube and a Close-up

I used art by Ismael Rac

Tubes and License available at his Store

PSP and Animation Shop

Both available from Corel

VM Instant Art - Lightlines

Eliminate Black

Xero - Porcelain

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Greg's Pool Shadow

Font of choice

Ready?

Let's Begin!

New Image - 600x250

Fill with a color from your Tube

Greg's Pool Shadow

Duplicate this Layer Three times for a Total of four Layers

Highlight the bottom Layer and rename it BG

Highlight the next Layer up

VM Instant Art - Lightlines

Highlight the next Layer up

VM Instant Art - Lightlines - Change the Random Seed to 53

Highlight the next Layer up

VM Instant Art - Lightlines - Change the Random Seed to 57

Run the Eliminate Black filter

On each of these Lightlines Layers

Hide the top two Lightlines Layers

Highlight your BG Layer - Duplicate - Send to Top

Mirror and Flip

Select All - Contract 20 - Invert - Delete - Deselect

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave

Select All - Float - Defloat

Copy your Close-up and place as desired

Selections - Invert

Highlight your Tube Layer - Delete - Deselect

Change the Blend Mode to Luminance and lower the opacity a little

Merge Down

Xero - Porcelain - Blue channel to 0

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 70 and 5

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer

Send to top if necessary

Place as desired and give it a blurry Drop Shadow

Crop your Tag

New Layer

Fill with a dark color

Select all - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 70 and 5

Add your Name, CR Info and License# if necessary

Let's get what we need for our Avatar now

Shift+D to copy your Tag

Delete Layers with Art, Name, CR Info and Border

Duplicate the BG Layer - Send to Top - Flip and Mirror

Select All - Contract 15 - Invert - Delete - Deselect

Effects - Distortion Effects - Same Wave effect as before

Add a New Layer - Send to Top

Fill with a dark color

Select all - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 70 and 5

Add your Name or Initial and Animate Like we will for the Tag

Animation

Fire up Animation Shop

In PSP

Hide the top two Lightlines Layers

Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation Shop

Edit - Paste as New Animation

Back in PSP

Hide the bottom Lightlines Layer and Unhide the Middle one

Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation Shop

Edit - Paste after current Frame

Back in PSP

Hide the Middle Lightlines Layer and Unhide the Top one

Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation Shop

Edit - Paste after current Frame

Edit - Select All

Animation - Frame Properties - Change to 20

View - Animation to make sure it looks like you want

Save as a gif and you're Done!

Sample Sets

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