Ribbons, Too

 

 

12/16/2016

To create this set 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

Filters Unlimited 2.0

 

Choose two colors from your Tube as FG and BG

 

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 300

Lock Unchecked - All Layers Checked

Edge Effects - Enhance Edges

 

New Layer

Custom Selection

Top: 0 - Right: 329

Bottom: 300 - 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

85 - Hit Mix once for each of these Layers

Leave these Layers Visible

 

New Layer

Send to Top

Fill with one of your Colors

Select All - Contract 4 - Delete - Deselect

New Layer

Fill with your Other Color

Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Merge these Layers together

Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100 and 5

 

Paste your Tube and Move into Position

Drop Shadow 20, 20, 100 and 100

Crop to Merged Opaque

Add your Name, CR info and License#

If you don't want to animate

Save as a JPG and you're Done!

 

Avatar

Shift+D to copy your Tag

Remove Name and CR Layers

Remove the Border

Remove two of the Glitter Layers

Resize to 400 X 200

Set your Crop Tool to 150 x 150

Move the Box over the part you want showing

Hit the Check mark to apply

Add the Border

Add your Name and CR Info

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 Fanpage