Double Vision - A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need

A tube

I used art by Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License Availible Here

Penta - VTR 2

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

My Selection Here

Unzip into your Selections Folder

Ready?

Let's begin!

Make your FG a color from your Tube

Make your BG white or a very Light shade of your BG color

Make a FG/BG gradient on the FG

Rectangular - Angle 90 - Repeats 3

New Image - 600x250

Fill with your gradient

Effects - Geometric Effects - Skew

Duplicate Layer - Image - Mirror

Change the Blend Mode to Screen if your using a light color

or some other Blend mode like Overlay to get the result we're looking for

Depending which looks better to you

Merge Visible

Duplicate this Layer Twice for a total of Three Layers

Highlight the Top Layer

Copy your Tube and Paste as New Layer

Move Left - Duplicate - Mirror

Highlight the Top BG Layer

Magic Wand Tool

Mode Add(Shift) - Match Mode RGB Value - Tolerance 10 - Feather 5

Promote Selection to Layer - Keep Selected

Penta - VTR 2

Invert Selection - Highlight your Tubes Layer - Delete

Deselect - Merge Down

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 35 and 6

You should have four Layers now

Three BG layers and the Promoted Selection Layer

Highlight the Top BG Layer

Load SWWSeeingDoubleSel

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

40 - Mix Checked

Do this on the other two BG Layers

Hit the Mix Button once each time

Deselect - Hide the Top Two Layers

New Layer - Arrange - Bring to Top

Fill with Color of Choice

Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 35 and 6

Add your Name, CR Info and License#

ANIMATION

In PSP - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP

Hide the bottom BG layer and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP

Hide the middle BG layer 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!

Sample Sets:

Another Set using art by Ismael Rac

Tubes and License available at his Store

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