Mayra- A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set, you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both are sold by Corel

A Close-Up Tube

I used Art by Olivia

Tubes and License can be bought at CDO

L en K - Mayra

MuRa Meister - Copies

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

My Selection Here

Ready?

Let's begin!

Unzip my Selection to your Selections Folder

Copy your Tube and Paste as new Image

Resize to 600x600 - Lock unchecked -All Layers Checked

MuRa Meister - Copies - Wallpaper - Default

Resize to 600x200 - Lock unchecked -All Layers Checked

Duplicate Layer

On the Original - Gaussian Blur 15

On the Duplicate - Radial Blur

Spin - Strength - 19 - Elliptical unchecked - All else to 0

Edge Effects - Enhance - Blend Mode - Overlay or Hard Light

Merge Visible

Duplicate Layer

L en K - Mayra

Top to Bottom - 0, 149, 76 and 2

Pull down the opacity a little-It's different for each tag

Just enough to let the bottom layer show thru a little

Merge Visible

For the next step, I used the Rectangular Selection tool

To select around the white stripes like so

You can do that too, or you can load my Selection

Selections - Load Selection from Disk

Drop Shadow - 2, 2, 64 and 2 - Keep Selected

Duplicate this Layer twice for a total of Three

You know where we're going with this don't you?

On Each of these Layers - DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Mix checked - 47 - Hit the Mix Button once each time

For the Example below, I used the Lighter button instead

Just use whatever looks better for your Tag

Deselect

Lets get what we need for the Avatar now

Shift + D to duplicate your Tag

Get out your Crop Tool - Set it to 150x150

Move it to where you want it and hit the little green check mark

I moved mine to the bottom right

Set this aside for now

Back to our Tag

Paste your Tube - Move Left and give it a blurry Drop Shadow

Crop your Tag and add a Layer

Fill with Black or a dark color from your Tube

Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Time to add your Name and CR (and Lic # if necessary)

Hide your BG Layers and Merge Visible

Unhide the bottom Layer

Copy merged and Paste as a New Animation in Animation Shop

Back in PSP - Hide the bottom layer and unhide the next one up

Copy merged and Paste after current frame in Animation Shop

Back in PSP - Hide the middle layer and unhide the next one up

Copy merged and Paste after current frame in Animation Shop

View Animation to make sure it looks right and save as a gif

Lets finish up the Avi

Add a layer and send to top

Fill with Black or a dark color from your Tube

Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Add your Name and CR (and Lic # if necessary)

Hide your BG Layers and Merge Visible

Animate the same way you did for the Tag

Sample Avi

Another Example, also using the awesome art of Olivia

Another, using the fantastic art of Jennifer Janesko

who is also with CDO

As always, I love seeing your results if you try any of my Tutorials

Please leave a link in the comments section of my Blog