Mehdi Bars - A Forum Set Tutorial

April 9, 2011

To create this Set you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both available from Corel

A Tube

I used art by Keith Garvey

Tubes and License available from PTE

Do not use this art without a proper license

Photo Tools - Frosted Edger White

Mehdi - Kaleidoscope 2

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Font of Choice - I used P22 Petermoss (Pay Font)

Ready?

Let's Begin!

New Image 600x250

Choose Light and Dark colors for your FG/BG

Make a FG/BG Gradient

Angle 45 - Repeats 4

Fill your Tag with this gradient

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

Edge Effects - Enhance

Photo Tools - Frosted Edger White

Diffuse 255 - Encroachment 128

New Layer - Custom Selection

Top - 40

Right - 600

Bottom - 59

Left - 0

Fill with a light color of your choice

Deselect - Duplicate and Flip

Merge these two Layers together

Mehdi - Kaleidoscope 2

Rectangular Selection Tool

Mode - Add (Shift)

Make two selections on your Tag like this

Promote Selection to Layer

Keep Selected

Highlight the original Mehdi Layer

Selections - Invert

Promote Selection to Layer

DESELECT

Delete the Original Mehdi Layer

Now you should have three Layers

The two Promoted Selection Layers and the BG

Here's the part where you get to play

Choose which of the Promoted Selection Layers that you want to be a different color

Select All - Float - Defloat - Expand 1

New Layer - Fill the Selection with your color

Deselect

On both the Promoted Selection Layers

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 45, 5

Choose whether you want the glitter on your colored layer or the other one

Duplicate this Layer Twice for a total of three Layers

On each of these three Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise - 46 Mix

Hit the mix button once for each Layer

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer on your Tag

Move where you want it and give it a Blurry Drop Shadow

Crop your Tag

New Layer - Make sure it's on Top

Fill with your Light Color

Select All - Contract 4 - Delete

Expand 1 - Invert - Fill with Dark Color

Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 50 and 5

Add your Name, CR info and License# if Necessary

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!

AVATAR

Shift+D to copy your Tag

Delete Layers with Art, Name, CR info and Border

Crop to 150x150

Make the Border as you did for the Tag

Animate (or not)

Sample Set:

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