To create this Tag you will need:

A Tube and a Close-up

I used art by Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License available HERE

Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000 - HSB Noise

 

My Selection HERE

 

My Mask

Right-Click and save to your own computer

You can use this in other Tags and Tutorials, but please leave the filename intact

 

Ready?

Let's Begin!

 

New Image - 800x800

Fill with White

Paste your Tube as a New Layer and Move to the upper right corner

Duplicate and move a bit to the left

Duplicate again and move a bit to the left.

Keep doing this until the entire top half of the tag is covered

Merge Visible - Duplicate

Image - Flip

The entire background should be covered now

Merge Visible

Effects - Reflection Effects - Rotating Mirror

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Duplicate - Flip then Mirror

Change the blend mode to Overlay or another you like better

Merge Visible

 

Layers - New Layer - Mask from Image

Choose my Mask

Merge Group

Resize Image - 600x600

 

Load My Selection

Promote to Selection - Keep Selected

 

New Layer

Fill with a color from your Tube

Contract the Selection by 5

Delete

Contract the Selection by 5

Fill with your color

Contract the Selection by 5

Delete

Contract the Selection by 5

Fill with your color

Contract the Selection by 10

Delete - Keep Selected

Expand Selection by 1

 

Paste your Close-up as a new Layer

Drag this Layer under the Round Frame you made

Invert Selection - Delete - Deselect

 

Select your Close-up Layer

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize

Move both sliders to 0 - Drop the Opacity a little

Select your Promoted Selection Layer

Effects Texture Effects - Weave

Highlight your Frame layer

Adjust - Add Noise

Gaussian - 100% - Mono Checked - Twice

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 100 and 10

Duplicate

Drag this Layer under your Promoted Selection Layer

 

Image - Canvas Size

Change it to 700x700

Center and Lock ratio checked

 

Select the BG Layer

Select All

Fill with white

Deselect

 

Select your Duplicated Frame Layer

Effects - Distortion Effects - Warp

Mirror if you want.

 

Resize your Image - 600x600

Select the Top Layer

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer

Add your Name, CR Info and License number

If you're going to add any other embellishments do it now

 

Hide the BG and Mask Layers

Merge Visible

 

ANIMATION

Duplicate the Mask Layer twice for a total of three Layers

On each of these Layers

Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000 - HSB Noise

Hit the Random Seed Button each time

Hide the top two of these Layers

 

Copy Merged

Fire up Animation Shop(AS)

Paste as a New Animation

Back in PSP

Hide the Bottom Mask Layer

Unhide the Middle one

Copy Merged

In AS Paste after Current Frame

Back in PSP

Hide the Middle Mask Layer

Unhide the Top one

Copy Merged

In AS Paste after Current Frame

Save as a gif and you're done!

 

Here are two more samples also using art by Barbara Jensen

 

 

If you try this, or any of my Tutorials

I would love to see what you made

Please Post results and comments on my Fanpage