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Tag MoonBeams

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Tutorial written by 
©charlieonline graphics 2002-2008


 

This tutorial was born from a tag by my friend Gaby, 

we all have worked out together 

and I have put it online with her permission.

 

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please feel free to print it out for your own personal use. 
But do not copy it in anyway to put on-line or re-write without permission. 

 
This tutorial was written using PSP9 and Animation Shop, 

but may be done with other versions, 

and assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP and its tools.

 

The tubes using for this tutorial are by Cherokee, NoeNoe and IoM_Graphics,

the brush are by Rox, and copyright belongs to them


Supplies needed:
HERE

 

Plugins:

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

 

Open the tubes and minimize them to your Psp workspace for now.

Extract and save the brush in the PSP/Brushes folder.

Set your Foreground  color to #997b33  

and the Background #7c6b3d

 

After change your foreground to gradient 

and choose Foreground-Background gradient with this settings:

 

 

Remember to save often.

 

Let's Begin!

 

Open a new image 550w x 450h transparent background; 

Raster background checked; Color depth 16 million colors

Flood fill with the gradient

Open IoM_Graphics_Landscape_2_tubes

Copy, return to your working image, 

Edit - Paste as New Layer

place it as the finished image,

and change the Blend Mode to Luminance (L)

 

Duplicate, lock the copy and click to the original

(make sure it is active)

 

Adjust - Blur - Motion Blur

with this settings:

 

 

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

 

 

Now unlock the copy, 

(make sure it is active)

 and lower the Opacity to 50.

 

 

Open Mocca_dance_by_noenoe_Tube

Copy, return to your working image, 

Edit - Paste as New Layer

place it as the finished image,

and change the Blend Mode to Luminance (L)

 

 

Open Cherokee~FBPO_StarfishSunset_artistUNKtome_Tube 

Copy, return to your working image, 

Edit - Paste as New Layer

Resize to 75%,

place it as the finished image,

and change the Blend Mode to Luminance (L)

 

 

Add your watermark

 

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

 

 

Image - Canvas size

like this:

 

 

Selections - Select all

 

Layers - New Raster Layer. Flood fill with the foreground #997b33 

 

In the Materials Palette, change the background to White

 

Selections - Modify - Contract 2 px

Flood fill with the background

 

Selections - Modify - Contract 10 px

Press the Delete Key

 

Keep Selected!

 

 

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 

 

 

Change Vertical and Horizontal to -1 and repeat.

 

Selection - Invert

Selections - Modify - Contract 2 px

 

Keep Selected!

 

 

Layer - Duplicate twice

you have a total of 3 layer now.

 

Rename them as: "1" "2" and "3".

 

Leave unlock layer 1 and lock layers 2 and

(make sure to activate layer 1) 

 

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise

 

 

click ok

Keep Selected!

 

Lock layer 1, unlock and active layer 2

Apply Noise Effect again, but change the noise to 35 

 

Keep Selected!

 

Lock  layer 2, unlock and active layer 3

Apply Noise Effect again, but change the noise to 4

And lock the layer layer 3 too

 

In the Materials Palette, change the foreground to Gradient,

Foreground-Background gradient with this settings:

 

 

Add a New Raster Layer

 

 

Select the Brush Tool and choose the  RoxPoetry10_brush

resize the size to 250, and leave the others with default settings. 

Click the left mouse button one time and place it as finished image.

 

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 

 

 

Change Vertical and Horizontal to -1 and repeat.

Rename this layer MoonBeams

 

 

Now we apply the Noise Effect also to our brush, 

but only to the MoonBeams world

 

So we have to work as follows:

 

Open Selection Tool

and draw a selection as the following image:

 

 

Edit - Cut

 

Add a New Raster Layer

 

Make sure you are active this new layer

 

Edit - Past into Selection.

So you can have the words in the same place, 

but in separated layers.

 

Selections - Select none

Rename this layer Magical

 

Lock layer MonBeams

 

Make sure you have unlocked only layers Uniti and Magical

 

Make sure you have activate layer Magical

 

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

 

Duplicate 2 times, and rename as: Uniti 1 - Uniti 2 - Uniti 3

 

Lock all layers

 

 

 

Now lock layer MoonBeams.

 

Selections - Select all

Selections - Modify - Contract 1 px

 

Keep Selected!

 

 

Duplicate twice and rename them: text 1 - text 2 - text 3

 

Leave unlock text 1 and lock layers text 2 and text 3 

Make sure you have activate layer D1

 

 

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise

 

 

click ok!

 

Keep Selected!

 

Lock  text 1, unlock and active  text 2

Apply Noise Effect again, but change the noise to 35 

 

Keep Selected!

 

Lock  text 2, unlock and active  text 3

Apply Noise Effect again, but change the noise to 45 

 

Selections - Select none

 

And lock the layer text 3 too.

 

 

So you have:

 

 

Unlock all number 1

 

 

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Rename this layer "animazione 1" and Lock it.

 

Now unlock and merge each  layer with number

Rename it "animazione 2" and then Lock it.

 

 

 

 

Now unlock and merge each  layer with number

Rename it "animazione 3".

 

 

 

Unlock all layers so you have what in example

 

 

 

Make sure all layers are unlocked and your top layer active.

 

File - Save as a PSP (Animation shop) file

as follows:

 

 

Click ok.

 

 

Open Animation shop.

Open your .psp file.

Preview the animation.

If you thing the tag is too big resize it.

When satisfied, save as a gif

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 I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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