Christmas On My Radar

 

What you will need for this tutorial:-

Paint Shop Pro - (PSP) any version, mine was done in X2

Animation Shop (AS)

Tube and Image of choice - I am using the awesome work of Ismael Rac . Ismael's work is licensed and you must obtain both a license and tubes direct from his store to be able to use them.

Mura Meister - Copies

Mura's Seamless Filters - Shift at Slant

Unplugged Tools- Radar Filter

Font of Choice - I used Old Christmas Regular

 

Let's get started :-

 

Open a new image 600 x 250 pixels at 72dpi.

Copy and paste your tube onto the canvas.

Mura Meister Copies -Line:-

 

The apply Radial Blur :-

Effects - Enhance More .

Duplicate this layer.

On the top layer apply Mura's Seamless Shift at Slant:-

Change the blend mode of this layer to screen

With your rectangle preset shape, line width 5, diamond style, foreground colour a contrasting colour to your background, draw a rectangle about 2 pixels in from the edge of your canvas. When you are happy with it's position, give it a drop shadow then merge visible.

Duplicate this layer twice. On the original apply the Radar Filter : -

Repeat this filter on the other two layers, changing the Beam Angle to 122 and 202. Hide the top two layers for the moment. (If you do not wish to animate, you can omit this last step, just apply the filter on your merged layer.)

Copy and paste your tube and drop shadow.

Add your name with a Christmas Font of choice, I used Old Christmas Regular.

Add your artist copyright , license number and taggers mark if used.

If you do not wish to animate, save as either a jpeg or png.

 

Now to animate the tag to finish it off.

With your two merged background layers still hidden, copy merged and paste as a new animation in AS.

Back in PSP, hide the first radar layer, and open the middle one.

Copy merged, and then right click into your first frame in AS and paste after current frame.

Repeat this, closing off the middle layer and opening the top one. paste this after the second frame.

Change the frame properties to about 60.

If you are happy with your animation, save as a gif.

 

This Tutorial was written in November 2010 by Helen Peachey, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
© Peachies Designs and Tutorials. Any Resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.