To make this set you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both are sold by Corel

A tube and a close-up

I used art by Keith Garvey-

You can get Tubes and License from MPT

Please do not use without proper license

Xero- Porcelain

MuRa Meister-Copies

Photo Tools-Frosted Edger Black

DSB Flux-Bright Noise

Ready?

Lets Begin!

New Image-600x250-Transparent

Choose a light color for your foreground and a dark color for your background

On the foreground, make a foreground/background gradient-angle 45, Repeats 1, invert checked

Fill with your gradient-Add Noise -Uniform, 50, Mochrome Checked

Adjust Blur, Radial Blur

Edge effects-enhance, erode, enhance

Adjust Blur, Motion Blur-45-100% -Edge effects-enhance

Photo Tools-Frosted Edger Black

Text tool- Light color in BG-FG Null

I used Impact size 9 -type OoohLaLa- Objects-Align-Center in canvas

MuRa Meister Copies- Tiling-Tile Gap 2-blend mode soft light

Rectangle tool- FG Null-Bg your Dark color

Make a rectangle across the center of your tag- Objects-Align-Center in canvas

Rasterize-Xero Porcelain-Blue Channel to 0-Red Channel to 255

Text tool- Light color in BG-FG Null

I used Impact size 72 -type OoohLaLa-Pull on the handles to make it fit inside rectangle

Blend mode to Overlay-Effects-Texture Effects-Blinds

For the color, use your Dark color -Add a small Drop Shadow

Highlight your Tiling layer-Paste your Close-Up

Move her so she's looking over the rectangle-Blend mode to Luminance

Add a blurry Drop Shadow if you like

Highlight top layer- Paste your tube and move to the left

Drop Shadow-5, 5, 50 and 18

Crop your tag

New Layer- Fill with your Gradient-select all-contract 4-delete-deselect

New Layer-Fill with your Dark color- select all-contract 2-delete-deselect

Merge these 2 borders together- Drop Shadow-1, 1, 50, 1 -again with the V & H -1

Time to add your name, CR info and License#'s if necessary

Hide BG and Tiling layers and merge the rest of the layers together

So now you should have 3 layers -Bg, Tiling and everything else in the top layer

If you decide not to animate-you're finished- Just save as a .jpg

For the Avatar, copy merged and paste it as a new image,

then use the crop tool to crop out the part you want and add your initial and CR Info and License #

Then add a 2 pixel border in the dark color and save as a jpg

Animation

Duplicate the Tiling Layer twice for a total of 3 layers

DSB Flux-Bright Noise 61-Mix checked on all 3 layers

Hit the mix button once each time

Animate as usual

If you don't know how, I've written a little mini-tut to show you Here

If you try my Tutorial I would love to see your results.

Please a link in the comments section on my BLOG