Underwater Weave

To create this tag you will need:

PSP and Animation Shop

Both available at Corel

A close-up tube

I used art by Keith Garvey

I bought this tube while he was at MPT

Tubes and license for Keith's art

are available as of this writing at PTE

Do not use without a proper license

MuRas Meister - Cloud and Copies

Gregs Pool Shadow

Eye Candy 4000 - Corona

AAA Frames - Foto Frame (for the avatar)

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Copy your Tube and paste as a New Image

Effects- Distortion- Pixellate -30 -Symmetric checked

Resize Image - 600x200 -All layers Checked -Lock unchecked

MuRa Copies - Wallpaper - Default Settings

Duplicate layer- Hide the Duplicate

Back on the BG Layer - Gaussian Blur 2

Gregs Pool Shadow - Change intensity to 50

New Layer

Choose two contrasting colors from your tube for FG/BG

MuRa Clouds - Hit the reset button

Texture Effects - Weave - 2, 15, 1 -Fill gap checked - Both colors white

Unhide and highlight the top layer

Motion Blur - 45, 100%

Edge effects - Enhance

Change the Blend Mode of the Clouds layer to screen

Change the Blend Mode of the Top layer to Overlay or Hard Light

Merge Visible

Get out your Rectangular selection tool

Select a rectangle across the top of your tag - See sample tag for placement

Promote selection to layer

Duplicate - Hide the Duplicate -Deselect

On the original rectangle - EC4000 - Corona

Eye Candy 4000 is no longer available,

but I'm sure there's a Corona in later versions

Or you could improvise with a gradient glow or a white drop shadow

Merge down into the BG Layer

Now you should have two layers:

The BG with the Corona'ed Rectangle

The second rectangle Layer

Paste your Tube

Send to top and move left - Drop Shadow- 5, 12, 73 and 50

Crop your Tag

New Layer - Send to top

Fill with dark color from your Tube

Select All - Contract 1px - Delete - Deselect

Time to add your name and CR info and License # if necessary

Lets make our Avatar

Shift + D to duplicate your Tag

Resize to 150 High

Crop to 150x150

Merge Visible

AAA-Frames -Foto Frame

Width 10, Matte 1, Opacity 50

Add the 1 px border

Add Artist CR and License # and your Initial

Merge Visible and Save as a Jpg

You're done with the Avatar

Back to our Tag

Hide your BG and Rectangle Layers

Merge Visible

Unhide everything

If you want to skip the animation, you're done!

Animation

Select All - Highlight and copy your Rectangle Layer

In Animation Shop - Paste as New Animation

Insert Image Effect

Hit the Customize button

Apply Sunlight Dappling Checked

Sunlight Intensity is 10

Water Depth is also 10

Change the numbers for the waves to these:

Wave 1: 10, 10

Wave 2: 23, 26

Wave 3: -19, -17

Wave 4: 14, 15

Wave 5: -18, 3

Wave 6: -1, 19

Wave 7: 12, -7

Wave 8: 14, 5

Wave 9: -9, 10

Wave 10: -20, 0

Set Wave 11 to 16: 0,0

Delete the first Frame

Now you should have 12 Frames

Minimize for now and go back to PSP

Highlight your BG Layer and Copy

Back in Ani Shop - Paste as a New Animation

Hold down your ctrl key and keep hitting the "L" key

Until you have 12 Frames

Open your first animation

Select All - Copy

On your second Animation, select all

Then Paste into Selected Frame

Hold down the left mouse button then place it where you want it and let go

View Animation to make sure it looks right

Back to PSP

Highlight your Layer with Tube, Border, Name and CR Info

Copy- Then back in Animation Shop, Paste as New Animation

Hold down your ctrl key and keep hitting the "L" key

Until you have 12 Frames

Select All - Copy

On your second Animation, select all

Then Paste into Selected Frame

Hold down the left mouse button then place it where you want it and let go

And that's it-you're done!!

Sample Set:

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I also love seeing your results.

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