You'll need a Tube and a Close-up

I used art by Verymany

Tubes and Licence available HERE

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

 

Ready?

Let's Begin!

 

Choose a medium color for your FG

Choose a lighter shade of the same color for your BG

Make a Linear Gradient on the FG

Angle 145 - Repeats 3

New Image - 800X600

Fill with your Gradient

 

Select All - Contract 30 - Promote Selection

Contract 30 - Promote Selection

Contract 30 - Promote Selection - Deselect

Now you should have 4 Layers

 

Change your FG to Color

 

Change to Target Brush

Select the Layer just above the BG

Hold down the Left Mouse Button and paint all over that Layer

Select the Top Layer

Hold down the Left Mouse Button and paint all over that Layer

Select the BG Layer

Adjuse - Add Noise

Uniform - 100% - Monochrome Checked - TWICE

Effects - Reflection Effects - Pattern

 

Select the Next Layer up

Drop Shadow - 5, 5, 53 and 14 - Color Black

 

Select the Next Layer up

Duplicate Twice for a total of Three of these Layers

On each of these Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

40 - Mix Checked

Hit the Mix Button once for each Layer

Drop Shadow - 5, 5, 53 and 14 on each Layer

Hide the Top Two of these Layers

 

Now is a good time to Resize this if you want it smaller

I took mine down to 640x480

 

Select the Top Layer

 

Select All - Float - Defloat

Copy your Close-Up and Paste as a New Layer

Move into Position

Invert Selection

Delete - Deselect

Change the Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L)

Pull the Opacity down a little

Merge Down

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave

1, 3, 1 - Weave Black - Gap White - Fill Checked

Drop Shadow - 5, 5, 53 and 14

 

 

Select the Layer just below your Close-up

Add a Layer

Change your FG back to Gradient

Draw out 3 Selections across your Tag like this

Fill the Top and Bottom Selections with your Gradient

Fill the Middle one with your Light Color

Deselect

Duplicate - Rotate 90 Degrees Left

Place Both Sets of Bars where you want them

See my Tags for placement

Merge these together

Drop Shadow - 5, 5, 53 and 14

 

New Layer - Fill with your Lighter Color

Select All - Contract 3 - Delete - Deselect

 

Select the Top Layer

Add your Tube - Move into Position

Same Drop Shadow

Crop to Merged Opaque

 

Add your Name, CR Info and License#

 

Animation

Open Animation Shop(AS)

In PSP - Copy Merged

In AS - Paste as New Animation

In PSP - Hide the Bottom Flux Layer and Unhide the Middle one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

In PSP - Hide the Middle Flux Layer and Unhide the Top one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

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

 

Here's another sample also using art by Verymany

This time, I used contrasting colors in the gradient

 

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