Simplifier - A Forum Style Tutorial

To create this tag you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

A Tube

I used the fantastic art of Jose Cano

Tubes and license are available at MPT

Xero - Grayscaler and Porcelain (optional)

Kang 1 - The House that Jack Rented

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

AAA Filters - Simplifier

Ready?

Let's Begin!!

New Image 600x250

Fill with a color from your tube

Kang 1 - The House that Jack Rented - Default

Xero - Grayscaler - Default

Hue and Saturation - Colorize to match your tube

Radial Blur

Zoom, Elliptical checked, Strength 22, all other settings 0

Make your FG a light color and your BG a darker color

On the FG make a FG/BG Gradient

Angle 45 - Repeats 3

New Layer

Fill with your gradient

Change the Blend mode to Color

(On the second sample, I used Color (L)- just play with it)

Merge visible

Duplicate layer

Lasso tool set to freehand, feather 20

Select a diagonal area around the middle of the tag

Remember that the selection is feathered, so don't select an area as big as shown

Distortion Effects - Pixellate

Size 10, Symmetric checked

Deselect

Change the blend mode to screen, or some other one you like better

Merge visible

AAA Filters - Simplifier - Default

Duplicate

Select all - Contract 15 - Delete

Expand selection by 5 - Invert - Delete

Deselect - Mirror

Distortion Effects - Warp

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 layers

Name them warp 1, warp 2 and warp 3

On each of these three layers

DSB Flux - Bright Noise - Mix - 50

Hit the Mix button once for each layer

On each of the Warp layers add a drop shadow 0, 0, 100 and 3

Time to get what we need for the Avatar

Shift + D to copy your Tag

On the copy

Crop to 150 x 150

Add a 1 px border

Add your name or initial and animate as usual

Back to our Tag

Paste your Tube and move to left side and add a blurry drop shadow

Crop your Tag

New Layer - Send to top

Fill with your dark color

Select all - Contract selection by 1- Delete - Deselect

Add your Name, CR info and License # if necessary

Animate as usual

If you need a refresher on how to do this animation,

I have written a little mini-tut to show you how HERE

Sample Sets:

If you try any of my tutorials, I would love to see your results!

Please post a link in the comments on my BLOG