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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Bumrush

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Michael Calandra

License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet

One of my Templates SpawnsFSTemplate045

 

Filters:

Eye Candy 6: Textures/Brushed Metal

Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow

Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow (optional)

 

 

 

Ok let's begin

Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original

Delete the Credits and Black Line layers

In your Materials Palette change your Foreground to a Dark color from your Tube and your

Background to a Light from your Tube ... Activate the Grey Vertical Lines layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal

 

 

Activate the Grey Horizontal Lines layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal

This time change the Direction to 270 and hit the Random Seed button once

 

 

Activate the Light Grey Horizontal Lines layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal

 

 

Activate the White Vertical Lines layer ... Rename this layer Ani

Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3)

Activate the Ani layer ... Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal

This time change the Direction to 270 and hit the Random Seed button once

Activate the Copy of Ani layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal ... Hit the Random Seed button once

Activate the Copy (2) of Ani layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Brushed Metal ... Hit the Random Seed button once

Hide the 2 top Ani layers for now

 

 

Activate the Grey Vertical Lines layer

In the Layer Palette move this layer to above the Copy (2) of Ani layer

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... Settings ... Simple (thin) ... Black

Click on the Click on the Basic tab

Change the Glow Radius to a 4 and the Overall Opacity to 50

 

 

Activate the Grey Horizontal Lines layer ... Layers> Arrange> Move Up

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... same settings as before

 

 

Activate the Border layer

Selections>Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Selections> Modify> Expand ... by 1

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color

Selections> Select None ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise

 

 

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... Settings ... Simple (thin) ... White

Click on the Click on the Basic tab and change the Glow Radius to 1

Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Resize if needed and position around

the middle to hide the line direction changes

 

 

Add a Drop Shadow of choice ... I chose

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... Settings ... Drop ... Height 2

In the Layer Palette move this layer below the Border layer

 

Add copyrights and your Name

 

 

 

ANIMATING

Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged ... Now open Animation Shop

Edit> Paste> As New Animation

Return to PSP and unhide the Copy of Ani layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Return to PSP and unhide the Copy (2) of Ani layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged

Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame

Edit> Select All ... Animation> Frame Properties ... change to 17

And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation

 

 

Tutorial written on the 26/12/2016 ©David Hanslip