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You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called birchctt Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Danny Drake This Artist no longer sells their art in Tube Format One of my Templates SpawnsFSTemplate050
Filters: DSB Flux/Bright Noise Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow (optional) Penta.com/Dot and Cross Xero/Porcelain (optional)
Ok let's begin Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original ... Delete the Credits and Background 3 layers ... Activate the Background 2 layer Paste your Tube as a New Layer Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... *Wall paper(rotate) ... default settings Repeat if necessary to cover canvas
Adjust> Blur> Motion Blur
Effects> Edge Effects> Enhance Activate the Background 2 layer ... Selections>Select All ... Selections> Float Selections> Defloat ... Selections> Invert ... Activate the copies tube layer ... Edit> Clear Selections> Select None
Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Move to the right of your canvas Move this layer below the Background 2 layer and move to a suitable position Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L) Effects> Penta.com> Dot and Cross
Paste your Tube as a New Layer Move this layer above the Background 2 layer and activate the Background 2 layer Selections>Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat
Using the Move Tool position the Tube layer so what you want to keep is inside the selection ... with the Tube layer active ... Selections> Invert Edit> Clear ... Selections> Select None ... Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L) ... Effects> Penta.com> Dot and Cross ... same settings as earlier
Activate the Single Stripe layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down Selections>Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Layers> New Raster Layer Change your Foreground color to a light color from your Tube Flood Fill the middle selection with this light color Change your Foreground an Background colors to two medium ones from your Tube
Flood Fill the Left Selection with your Foreground color and the Right Selection with your Background color Selections> Select None ... Rename this layer Flux ... Delete the Double Stripes layer Activate the Flux Layer ... Duplicate this layer three times (for a total of 4)
Activate the Flux layer again ... Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise
Activate the Copy of Flux layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok Activate the Copy (2) of Flux layer Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then on ok
Activate the Copy (3) of Flux layer Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... Settings ... Simple (thin) ... White Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... Settings ... Simple (thin) ... Black Click on the Basic tab and change the Glow Radius to 1
Move this layer below the Flux Layer ... Hide the 2 top Flux layers for now Activate the Left Circle layer ... Selections>Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color Paste your Tube as a New Layer Move into position so what you want to keep is inside the selection Selections> Invert ... Edit> Clear ... Selections> Select None Change the layers Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance (L) Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Activate the Right Circle layer Repeat the above in red but this time use your Foreground color for Flood Fill Delete the Left Circle and Right Circle layers Selections> Select All ... Selections> Clip to Canvas ... Image> Crop to Selection
Activate the left tube circle layer Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... Settings ... Simple (thin) ... White Click on the Basic tab and change the Glow Radius to 2 and color to Foreground Edit> Repeat Gradient Glow .. same settings
Activate the right tube circle layer Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow Same settings as before but change the color to Background Edit> Repeat Gradient Glow .. same settings
Paste your Tube as a New Layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Resize if needed and position where you like Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... Settings ... Drop ... Blurry Effects> Xero> Porcelain ... all Color Channels set to 0
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with a color from your Tube Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 2 Edit> Clear ... Selections> Select None Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... same settings as before Add Copyrights and your Name
ANIMATING
Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> After Current Frame 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 09/01/17 ©David Hanslip |
