I Want to be Your Devil

Supplies Needed

Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop

Tube of choice. I used a great tube by Barbara Jensen . Barbara's work is licensed and both Licenses and Tubes can be obtained from her web site .

Filters - Crescent Moon - Cut Glass which can be downloaded Here, and Eye Candy 4000 - HSB Noise - unfortunately this is a Pay Filter, but a Free Demo can be downloaded Here.

Brushes and Font of choice.

Remember to save your work often, and if you wish to name your layers please do so. The only layers I will name/number in the tutorial are the layers which will form the animated frame.

Open a new image 600x600 pixels at 72dpi resolution. We will crop and resize later. Flood fill this layer white. Now copy and paste your tube as a new layer, duplicate and hide the top layer for the moment.

On the original tube layer, go to your Crescent Moon Cut Glass Filter and apply with these settings:-

Tile Size 10, Tile Transparency 73, Transparency 0. Move this layer slightly to the left, then Duplicate and Mirror . Close off your background layer, merge the two cut glass layers and reduce the opacity to around 60. You should now have something like this:-

Take your Preset Rectangle Tool and pick a colour from your tube as the Foreground Colour, Background Null, Line width around 10 and draw a rectangle as a Vector Layer in the centre of your canvas. It should almost encase your cut glass layer. Go to Objects - Align Centre then convert to a Raster Layer. With your Magic Wand click the area outside the rectangle, Selections - Modify- expand by 2, then make your cut glass layer active and hit delete. This will get rid of any excess around the frame.

Selections - Select None.

Now make sure you are back on the frame layer and click inside the rectangle. Selections - Modify - Expand 2 . Create a new layer between the background layer and the cut glass layer. Choose a gradient to suit your tube and on the new layer flood fill with the gradient. Selections - Select None.

Change the blend mode of your cut glass layer to screen or whatever suits your tube best.

Now take your rectangle tool again set with the line style at a pattern of your choice, foreground the same colour as your rectangle, background still null - Diamond would work quite well - line width about 2/3 and draw a rectangle slightly bigger than your frame. Add a subtle drop shadow.

Now add some text across the top of the outer rectangle and drop shadow with the same shadow you used on your rectangle. Add this drop shadow to your frame layer as well.

Open your main tube layer and position on the rectangle as you want. Add a drop shadow of choice. I used Lokas 3D at the Lowest Drop Shadow Setting.

This is what I have now:-

Add a new layer above your cut glass layer and add brushes of choice. Change the blend mode layer to suit your tag. I changed mine to Burn in the sample.

Now add your name in a font of your choice wherever you think looks best on your tag.

Crop off any excess white, resize if necessary, then add your copyright and taggers mark is used.

If you don't want to animate your tag, you can now save it.

If you wish to animate your tag make your frame layer active and duplicate it twice, numbering them 1,2 and 3 from the bottom up. Shut off the top two layers and then on the original layer click into the frame layer with your magic wand. Now find your Eye Candy 4000 HSB Noise.

On the settings tab, pick the one named Transparent Haze as shown in the above screen shot. Click on OK.

Close off that layer and open Frame 2. Apply the filter again but hit the random seed button before clicking OK. Do this on the Frame 3 layer as well.

Close off Frame 2 and 3 layers.

With the background layer active, right click into your image and select the Copy Merged option:-

Open Animation Shop, right click into the workspace, then Paste as new Animation:-

Back in PSP, close off Frame Layer 1 and open Frame 2. Copy merged again and then right click into your first frame in Animation Shop and choose paste after Current Frame:-

Repeat this with the third frame layer.

View your animation and if happy with it, optimize the animation then save as a gif.

If you have any queries on this tutorial , please contact me. I would also love to see your results.

This Tutorial was written in July 2010 by Helen Peachey, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
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