To create this Tag you will need:

A Tube and a Close-up

I bought this tube when Keith Garvey was with PTE

Tubes and Licence are now available at his STORE

 

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

My Masks

and

These Masks were made by me

You are free to save them and use them

Please keep the filename intact

 

Ready?

Let's Begin!

 

Open your Masks and Tubes in your Workspace

Open a New Image - 800x600

Fill with a medium dark color to match your Tube

New Layer - Fill with a light shade of your BG color

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image

Source Luminance Checked

Choose the SWWMaskedHeartsMask1

Merge Group - Merge Down

Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Add a Layer - Fill with your Light Color

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image

Source Luminance Checked

Choose the SWWMaskedHeartsMask2

Merge Group

Duplicate this once or twice if its not showing up well

Merge together

This is your Big Heart Layer

 

Select your Bottom Layer

Select All - Contract 5 - Invert

Promote to Selection

Deselect - Send to Top - Flip - Mirror

Drop Shadow 0, 0, 50 and 5

 

Select your Layer with the Big Heart

Lasso Tool - Freehand - Feather 10

Draw a selection around the heart

Paste your Close-Up and move into position

Invert Selection

Select the Close-up Layer

Delete - Deselect

Change the Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminande(L)

Drop the opacity a bit

 

Time to Resize if you want

I made mine 650X488

Make sure Lock and All Layers is Checked

Add your Tube

Give it a suitable Drop Shadow

Add your Name, CR Info and License#

 

Animation

Duplicate the Big Heart Layer twice for a total of 3 Layers

On each of these Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

40 - Mix Checked

Hit the Mix Button once for each Layer

Hide the Top Two

 

Open Animation Shop(AS)

In PSP - Copy Merged

In AS - Paste as New Animation

In PSP - Hide the Bottom Big Heart Layer and Unhide the Middle one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

In PSP - Hide the Middle Big Heart Layer and Unhide the Top one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

View Animation - If you like it, save as a Gif

 

Another Sample with Keith Garvey Art

 

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