8/8/2017

This Tutorial begins a series of re-imaginings of older tutorials of mine

To create this Tag you will need:

PaintShop Pro(PSP) and Animation Shop(AS)

A Tube from one of your Favorite Artists

I used art by the fabulous Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License Available HERE

 

Filters:

MuRa's Meister - Copies

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Toadies - What are You?

 

Ready?

Let's Start!

Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer

Resize - 800 X 800

Lock Unchecked - All Layers Checked

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Hit the Reset Button

Wallpaper(Shrink) - Default Settings

Seamless Tiling - Default Settings

Motion Blur - Angle 0 - Strength 100%

Motion Blur - Angle 180 - Strength 100%

Edge Effects - Enhance Edges

 

Resize Image - 600 X 600

Lock Unchecked - All Layers Checked

Edge Effects - Enhance Edges

 

New Layer

Custom Selection

Top: 0 - Right: 329

Bottom: 600 - Left: 268

Fill with one of your Colors

Deselect

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Hit the Reset Button

Line Preset - Default

 

Set up your Magic Wand tool

Mode: Add(shift) - Match Mode: RGB Value

Tolerance and Feather 0

Contiguous and Anti-alias Checked

Starting with the second from the left, click on every other one

New Layer - Fill with your other color

Deselect

Merge Down - Enhance Edges

Pull the opacity down a little

Get your Magic Wand and click in All of the empty spaces

Select the Bottom Layer

Promote Selection to Layer

Deselect

Rename this Layer Glitter

Duplicate Twice for a total of three Layers

On each of these Layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

47- Hit Mix once for each of these Layers

Hide the bottom two of these Layers

 

Select the Bottom Layer

Select All - Modify - Contract 80

Promote to Selection

Deselect

Drag this Layer to the Top

Select All - Float - Defloat

Paste your Tube and move into position

Drop Shadow - 20, 20, 100 and 100 if your Tube is facing right

Drop Shadow - 20, 20, 100 and 100 if your Tube is facing left

Duplicate

Mirror the Original

Toadies - What are You? - Default Settings

Drop the opacity a little

Merge the Tube Layers together

 

Select the Promoted Selection Layer again

Select All - Float - Defloat

Invert Selection

Select the Tube Layer

Delete - Do Not Deselect

 

Selection - Invert

New Layer

Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout

 

Add your Name, CR info and License#

If you don't want to animate

Save as a JPG and you're Done!

 

Animation

Copy Merged and Open up Animation Shop(AS)

Paste as a New Animation

Back in PSP

Hide the Top Glitter Layer

In AS

Paste After Current Frame

Back in PSP

Hide the Middle Glitter Layer

In AS

Paste After Current Frame

View Animation to make sure all looks good

Save as GiF and you're Done!

 

 

Another Example with Barbara Jensen 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 FaceBook page