© by Christa 26.03.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial belongs to me alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 27.03.09

This tutorial may neither be copied nor offered for download at any other site

The material offered, comes from tube exchange groups, or tube sites from the web

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

1 Exclusive tube from Margit

My special thanks to her for allowing me to use her lovely material

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you notify me via Email

Thanks to all tube creators for their excellent work

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : HIER

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

FM Tile Tools_Blend Emboss

Xero Porcelain XL : HIER

Place the masks into the mask folder

The gradient into the gradient folder

Silver pattern into your pattern folder

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You may take this little figure    along for your orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 720 x 580 trans parent

Fill with the following gradient

Adjust – blur – Gaussian blur 25

Effects – Plugins Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

These values I will use from now on, so I will only write Cross Shadow

2.)

New raster layer – fill with a dark color mine is - #793900

Cross Shadow

Layers - Load mask from disk

Merge group – New raster layer – selection – select all

3.)

Copy the template “template 130 “ paste into selection – select none

Image – resize 90 % - all layers not checked

Move down and to the right

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – adjust – Sharpness – sharpen more

4.)

Open the tube MMDesignz_Cr139149 – Image resize 80 % - copy

Paste as new layer – move to the left edge

Sharpen – Effects 3D drop shadow 1 /1 /65 /10 black

Merge layers visible

Copy MMC_JUL2008_002.pspimage

Paste as new layer

Move it down to the right side.

( If you choose another tube , colorize with your dark color. )

Same drop shadow like before.

5.)

Image – resize  90 % - all layers not checked

Effects – Xero Porcelain XL

New raster layer – move to last place

Fill with the dark color – Cross Shadow

New raster layer – move to first place – fill with the gradient – linear – angle 0

Repeats 1 – invert checked

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – use Xero Porcelain twice on the mask

Effects 3d drop shadow -1 /1 /65 /1 black – adjust – sharpen

Select the selection tool Lasso – point to point – select the face of the tube

Delete – select none – rename this layer “Animation”

6.)

Activate raster 1 – select all – Image – canvas size

New raster layer – move to first place – fill with the dark color

New raster layer – fill with the silver pattern

Blend mode – Luminance Legacy – layer merge down – effects 3D inner bevel

Selection – invert – effects 3D – cutout

0 /0 /100 /36 black – select none

7.)

Now write your text – Font Wonton size 72

FG the dark color – BG the gradient, angle 45 – repeats 5 – invert checked

Drop Shadow

1 /1 /65 /5 black – sharpen – use Xero Porcelain like above

Move the text above the layer called “ Animation “ – merge down

Add your watermark to the picture

Layers – activate the “Animation “ layer

8.)

Effects – Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – undo Constellation

Redo Constellation – click on random seed once

Edit – copy all layers

Return to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat this procedure one more time

Ending in the animation shop

Edit – select all – frame properties 15

Now you can save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa