Stripes: A Forum Set Tutorial

To create this Set you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both sold by Corel

A Tube

I used art by Ismael Rac

Tubes and License can be bought at his Store

Don't use this art without a proper license

Filters Unlimited 2

DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Font of choice

I used P22 Garamouche on the Header above

and AllisonROB on the sample set below

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose a medium color from your Tube for the foreground

White for the background

Make a gradient on the FG

Linear- Angle 0 - Repeats 1

New Image - 600x200

Fill your Tag with your gradient

Duplicate - On the duplicate

Filters Unlimited 2

Change the Blend Mode to Screen - Merge Visible

New Layer - Fill with your gradient

Effects -Artistic Effects - Halftone

Change the top color to your foreground color

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay - Merge visible

Paste your Tube and move left

Give your Tube a Blurry Drop Shadow

Crop your Tag

I used EC5 Impact - Perspective Shadow - Drop Shadow

New Layer - Send to Top - Fill with a dark color

Select All - Modify - Contract 1 - Delete - Deselect

Now it's time to add your Name, CR info and License # if necessary

Highlight your background layer

Get out your magic wand and click in the white area in the middle

Selections - Modify - Select Color Range

Click once in the Reference Color box

Then hover over your tag and click in a white area just above the white area already selected

Click ok in the color selection dialog box, then click ok in the

Select color range dialog box

Now all this should be selected

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of three background layers

On each of these - DSB Flux - Bright Noise

Hit the Mix button once for each layer

On the Header Sample I used 49 - Mix checked

On the Sample Below, I used 27 - Mix checked

You choose how much noise you want

Deselect

Hide the three background layers

Merge the rest together

Unhide all layers

Now it's time to get what we need for our Avatar

Shift + D to make a copy of your Tag

On the copy, delete the top layer

Now you should have just the three background layers

Crop to 150x150

Add a 1px border like we did for the Tag

Add your Name and Animate as usual

Sample Avi:

Back to our Tag

You should have four layers now

The top layer with Art, Name, CR and 1px Border

Three background layers

Animate as usual

If you are unfamiliar with the process or need a refresher

I have written a little mini-tut explaining how to do it HERE

That's it, you are done!

Another Sample Set:

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or any of my Tutorials, please leave a link in the comments sections on my BLOG

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