To create this Set you will need A Tube I used art by Barbara Jensen Tubes and License available Here My Selections Here Unzip into your My Documents/My PSP Files/Selections Folder Xero - Porcelain Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Textures - Texture Noise
Ready? Let's Begin! New Image - 600 x 400 Fill with Black Duplicate this Layer Twice for a Total of Three Layers On each of these Layers Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Textures - Texture Noise Click the Settings Tab - Choose Factory Default Click the Basic Tab Hit the Random Seed Button Once for each Layer
New Layer Choose a color to compliment your Tube Load the SWWWBars Selection Select your Paint Bucket Tool Set the Match Mode to None Fill the Selection with your Color Deselect Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave Xero - Porcelain - Blue Channel 0 Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 100 and 5 - Black Custom Selection Delete - Deselect
New Layer Load SWWWBars2 Selection Fill with your Color Deselect Duplicate and Mirror Adjust - Brightness/Contrast Brightness -255 - Contrast 0 Merge Down Xero - Porcelain - Blue Channel 0 Effects - Distortion Effects - Twirl - 180° Move Left - See the Sample Tag for Placement Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 100 and 20 Re-apply the Drop Shadow if you want
Copy your Tube and Paste as a New Layer Position as desired Drop Shadow of choice Add your Name, CR Info and License# New Layer Fill with Black Select All - Contract 2 - Delete - Deselect Drop Shadow - 0, 0, 100 and 5
Now Let's get what we need for the Forum Tag and Avatar Shift+D to Copy your Tag - Twice
Using the First Copy We'll make the Avatar Delete Art, Name, CR info and Border Layers Resize to 450 x 300 Set your Crop Tool to 150 x 150 Move to where you want it Hit the green arrow to apply Add the Border and your Initial Set this aside for now
Using the Second Copy Remove the Border Layer Custom Selection Top - 0 Left - 0 Bottom - 250 Right - 600 Move the elements of your Tag Inside the Selection where you want them Don't forget your CR Info Crop to Selection Add the Border Set this aside for now
ANIMATION Starting with the Tag Make sure all Layers are Visible Edit - Copy Merged Open Animation Shop (AS) Paste as a New Animation Back in PSP Hide the Top Texture Noise Layer Edit - Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Back in PSP Hide the Middle Texture Noise Layer Edit - Copy Merged In AS - Paste After Current Frame Edit - Select All Animation - Frame Properties Change the Number to 25 Save as a gif
Animate the Forum Tag and Avatar the same way Here's another Set, also using art by Barbara Jensen
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Tutorial Idea, Tags/Avis ©Shirley Franklin www.shirleyswebworks.com |