Ripleyer - A Forum Set Tutorial

March 29, 2011

To create this tag you will need:

A Tube

I used art by the fabulous Ismael Rac

Tubes and License are available at his STORE

Rorshack Filters- Ripleyer

Font of choice - I used P22 Corinthia (Pay Font)

Ready?

Let's begin!

Choose a light and a dark color for your FG and BG

It doesn't matter which

New Image - 600x250

Fill with your light color

Duplicate

Rorshack Filters- Ripleyer

Magic Wand - RGB - Tolerance 0

Click in one of the light colored bars

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Tolerance and Softness 20

Click in the color box and then click on one of your light colored bars

Click ok

Promote Selection to Layer

Selections - Invert

Make sure you're still on your Ripleyer Layer

Promote Selection to Layer

Deselect

Delete the Ripleyer Layer

On the top promoted selection layer

Drop Shadow 1, 1, 50 and 3

On the bottom promoted selection layer

Free Rotate - Left - 45

All Layers unchecked

Crop your Tag

Duplicate the rotated layer twice for a total of three layers

On the bottom one:

Add Noise - Uniform - 91% - Monochrome checked - TWICE

On the middle one

Add Noise - Uniform - 94% - Monochrome checked - TWICE

On the top one

Add Noise - Uniform - 98% - Monochrome checked - TWICE

Let's get what we need for the Avatar

Shift + D to copy the tag

On the copy

Crop tool set at 150x150

Move it where you want it and click the green arrow

New Layer - Fill with the dark color

Select All - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Add your name or initial and animate like the Tag

Back to the Tag

Paste your Tube as a new layer

Send to top

Move left and give it a blurry drop shadow

Crop your Tag

New Layer - Fill with the dark color

Select All - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Add your Name, CR and License # if necessary

Animation

Hide your top two Noise layers - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP- Hide the bottom and top Noise layers and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP- Hide the bottom and middle Noise layers and unhide the top one

Edit-copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste after current frame

View animation- If you like it, save as a gif and you're done!

That's it, we're done!

Sample Sets - All with art by Ismael Rac

If you try this or any of my Tutorials,

please leave a link to your results in the comments section on my Blog