

© 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

