Striped Barb - A Forum Set Tutorial

May 20, 2011

To create this Forum Set you will need

A Tube of Choice

I used Art by Barbara Jensen

Tubes and License available Here

Do not use this art without a proper license

Xenofex 2 - Constellation

L en K - Trouble

Toadie's - Blast 'em

Font of Choice

I used P22 Chai Tea Pro (Pay Font)

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose a Bright Color from your Tube for your FG

Make your BG #404040

On the FG - Make this Gradient

New Image - 600x250

Fill with your Gradient

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave

Duplicate Layer

On the Duplicate - L en K - Trouble

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay and Merge Down

Duplicate Layer

On the Duplicate - Toadie's - Blast 'em

Diffuse 20 - Transparency 211

Pull the Opacity Down to around 60 and Merge Down

New Layer

Selection Tool - Custom Selection

Fill with the same Gradient

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave - Same Settings as above

Duplicate Layer

On the Duplicate - L en K - Trouble - Same Settings as above

Blend Mode - Overlay - Merge Down

Deselect

Duplicate - Mover Tool - Click on the Duplicate

Hit your Left Arrow Key 15 Times

On each of the two Selection Layers

Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 50 and 5

Merge these two Layers Together

Highlight your BG Layer

Paste your Tube as a New Layer and Position as Desired

Drop Shadow of Choice - Crop your Tag

New Layer

Fill with Black or a very dark color from your Tube

Select All - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Time to add your Name, CR Info and License# if necessary

Hide your BG and Selection Layer

Merge Visible

Highlight your Selection Layer

Custom Selection

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Softness and Tolerance 20 - Color White - Add Checked

Duplicate this Layer Twice for a Total of Three Layers

On each of these - Xenofex - Constellation

Hit the Random Seed Button once for each Layer

Now we're ready to animate, but lets make our avi first

Avatar

Shift+D to copy your Tag

Remove all layers except the BG and the Constellation Layers

Crop to 150x150

New Layer - Send to Top

Make your 1px Border like you did for your Tag

Add your Name or Initial

Animate as you did for the Tag

ANIMATION

Hide your top two Constellation Layers - Edit - Copy Merged

In Animation shop - Edit- Paste as new animation

Back in PSP

Hide the bottom Constellation Layer and unhide the middle one

Edit - Copy merged

In Animation shop - Edit - Paste after current frame

Back in PSP

Hide the middle Constellation 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 Set:

A second Set using Art by Ismael Rac

Tubes and License available Here

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

Please post a link in the comments section on my Blog

http://www.shirleyswebworks.com