You will need PSP and Animation Shop

Tube, close-up and font of choice

I used the wonderful art of Ismael Rac

Do not use his work without a license from his store Here

Italian Editors-Effetto Fantasma

MuRa Meister-Copies

DSB Flux-Bright Noise

Ready?

Lets Begin!

New Image 600x250

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer on your tag

MuRa Copies-Wallpaper Shrink-default settings

Motion Blur-50, 100- 2 or 3 times

Edge Effects-Enhance, then Erode, then Enhance

Duplicate Layer - Italian Editors-Effetto Fantasma 97 and 255

Edge Effects-Enhance, then Erode, then Enhance More

Set the blend mode to overlay and merge visible

Paste your close-up on your tag and move to the right-blend mode to soft light

Paste your tube on the left side and mirror it so it faces the close-up

Drop shadow - 5, 27, 37 and 84

Crop your tag to 600x250

Highlight the top layer

Now we're going to make the border

New layer-name it color-fill with a color from your tube

Select all-contract selection by 6-DELETE- Expand selection by 2- INVERT

Highlight the bottom layer- promote selection to layer -send to top-KEEP SELECTED

Highlight the color layer -DELETE -deselect

Highlight your promoted selection layer-mirror and flip it -add a drop shadow

I used 5, 5, 50, 5 then changed the H and W to -5 and applied the drop shadow again

Send your color layer to the top and hide it-Merge visible

 

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

Rectangular selection tool-draw around the area you want, copy and paste as a new image

Resize to 150 on the longest side- Make the border the same way you made the one for the tag

 

Add your Name CR Info and License Numbers- send to top if it's not already there

 

Hide color layer and name layer merge visible

Unhide the color layer and duplicate it twice for a total of 3 layers

DSB Flux-Bright Noise on each color layer Mix checked - 45% -Hit mix button once each time

Animate as usual-

For those who don't know how, I have written a mini-tut explaning it HERE

 

Thank you for trying out my tutorial!

I love to see results, so please post a link to yours if you try it

in the comments section of my Blog

 

Tutorial and Tags/Avatars Shirley Franklin / www.shirleyswebworks.com