To create this Set you will need: A Tube I used art by the fabulous Ismael Rac Tubes and License are available at his STORE Rorshack Filters- Ripleyer Greg's Factory Output II - Pool Shadow Penta - Jeans
Ready? Let's begin!
Choose a light and a dark color for your FG and BG It doesn't matter which New Image - 600x600 Fill with your light color New Layer - Fill with your dark color New Layer - Fill with your light color 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 Highlight the Second Layer from the Bottom Promote Selection to Layer Deselect Delete the Ripleyer Layer On both Promoted Selection layers Drop Shadow 1, 1, 50 and 3 Hide the Top one for now
Highlight the bottom Promoted Selection Layer Custom Selection
Delete - Deselect Move this to the Center Free Rotate - Left - 45 All Layers unchecked Crop your Tag Use your Pick Tool to Pull it out so it looks like this
Crop your Tag Duplicate this Layer Image - Mirror Arrange - Bring to Top Drop Shadow - 1, 1, 50 and 3 Hide this Layer for now
Highlight the Bottom Promoted Selection Layer Adjust - Add Noise - 100% - Uniform - Mono Checked - Twice Drop Shadow - 1, 1, 50 and 3
Your Layers Palette should look like this now
Highlight Promoted Selection 2 Greg's Factory Output II - Pool Shadow Move the Intensity Slider to 50 Duplicate this Layer Image - Mirror Hide the Top Layer for Now Ok, now we're gonna Crop it to size Custom Selection Image - Crop to Selection
New Layer - Arrange - Bring to Top Custom Selection Fill with one of your Colors Keep Selected Copy your Close-up and Paste as a New Layer Position as Desired Invert Selection - Delete - Deselect Change the Blend Mode to Luminance Opacity to 60 or so Merge down Penta - Jeans - Amount 62 - Width 4 Drop Shadow - 0, 10, 50 and 50
Copy your Tube - Paste as a New Layer Position as desired Same Drop Shadow
New Layer - Fill with Color of choice Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 50 and 5
Add your Word Art, Name, CR Info and License#
Now let's get what we need for the Forum Sized Tag and Avi Shift+D to copy your Tag Twice
On the First Copy Remove all Layers except for the Bottom 5 Crop Tool Set to 150x150 Move your Crop Square to the part you want showing Hit the green check mark to apply Add the Border, Drop Shadow and your Initial Save as a JPG This is your Avi
On the Second Copy Remove the Border Custom Selection Move the elements of your Tag around to your liking Image - Crop to Selection Add the Border and Drop Shadow Make sure your CR info and License # are showing Animate like we will for the Tag This is your Forum Sized tag
Animation Fire up Animation Shop (AS) In PSP Copy Merged In AS - Paste as a New Animation In PSP Hide the Bottom Promoted Selection 2 Layer Unhide the Top one Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Animation - Frame Properties - Change the Number to 50 Save as a GIF and you're done!
If you try any of my Tutorials I would love to see what you made! Please leave a link in the comments section on my Blog
Tutorial Idea, Tags/Avis ©Shirley Franklin www.shirleyswebworks.com
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