I made this for my friend Rich over at the Zone Groups

You will need:

A tube and a close-up of choice

For this example I used the art of Jennifer Janesko

In order to use her art you must purchase a license from CILM

Photo Tools- Frosted Edger

DSB Flux-Bright Noise

A blocky font and a scripty font for the wordart

My heart shape

Lets get started

New image 600x250

Grab a light color for the foreground and a dark color for the background from your tube

Create a foreground/background gradient on the background

angle 45-repeats 3

Fill your image with this gradient

Add noise -uniform-12%-monochrome checked

Effects-Artistic Effects-Halftone-these settings:

Effects-Photo Tools-Frosted Edger

I used black at the default settings for this, but there are several different options

Choose the one that looks best to you

That's it for the background

Position your close-up tube on the right side

Change the blend mode to hard-light or overlay, whichever looks better

Drop the opacity to around 65

Position your tube on the left side and add a drop shadow

I used 5,5,50 and 5

Merge visible and make a new layer

Fill with your gradient-select all-contract selection by 2 and hit delete-deselect

Open my heart shape and colorize to match your tag

Copy and paste as new layer on your tag

Move it to where you want then duplicate it and resize the duplicate 80%

Merge the hearts together

Select all-float-defloat-DSB Flux-Bright Noise-Mix-38-deselect

Add a drop shadow

Time for wordart

With your lighter color as the background and the forground null

Use your scripty font

I used Good Vibrations ROB which is a pay font, so I can't share it

Write and place your words inside your hearts.

Rasterize and add a drop shadow

Add your copyright info

Merge all visible

Change your background color to your dark color and with your blocky font (I used Impact)

write your focus word and pull on the handles to make it fit where you want it.

Select all-float-defloat

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 layers

Keep selected

On the first text layer DSB Flux-Bright Noise-Mix-38

On the second text layer DSB Flux-Bright Noise-hit mix twice

On the top text layer DSB Flux-Bright Noise-hit mix 3 times

Deselect

Go back to the bottom text layer and add a drop shadow-check the shadow on new layer box

Change the background color to your light color-foreground Null

Write your name and position it where you want it-add a drop shadow-uncheck the shadow on new layer box

Time to animate!

Hide the top two text layers and copy merged

In Animation Shop paste as new animation

Back in PSP, hide the bottom text layer, unhide the middle text layer and copy merged

In Animation Shop paste after current frame

Back in PSP, hide the middle text layer, unhide the top text layer and copy merged

In Animation Shop paste after current frame

Save using the default settings



For the Avatar I made the background the same way, then added the heart and text.

 

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial!

All Graphics and Tutorial (C)Shirley Franklin http://www.shirleyswebworks.com