Tag That Ring Tutorial

 A simple Tag and Glitter tut.

Materials:

Tube or graphic of choice

Font of choice

Cybia – Edgeworks

DBS Flux

Open an new image: 400x400

Flood fill with white.

Add a new layer.

Select all.

Copy your tube or graphic,

Paste into selection.

Select none.

Lower opacity to 35

Image – Add borders – 2px black.

If you are using a graphic, resize to height 300px and add a 2px black border.

If you are using a tube, resize to height 300 px, add a new layer,

Flood fill with white, drag to the bottom, add a drop shadow to the tube, merge the layers and add a 2px black border.

Copy and paste your finished tube to the big image and put it on a place of your liking. Add a drop shadow.

Add a new layer.

Activate your rectangular selection tool.

Draw a small rectangle.

Paste into selection (your small image is still in the memory of PSP). Add the drop shadow again.

Add your watermark and merge all layers.

 Activate the Freehand selection tool.

Settings: Point to point, Add, Feather 0, smoothing 0.

Draw a line around the part you want to glitter.

Keep selected and duplicate the layers 2 times (now you have a total of 3 layers).

Make the top layer active.

Filters – Cybia – Glitter – Settings: 25/100

Make the second layer active, same filter – settings: 25/110

Make the third layer active, same filter – settings: 25/120

This works best on a background that is not solid colored.

If you use a solid colored background, it’s best to use DSB Flux – Bright noise. This goes for all layers of course.

Go back to your top layer.

Same filter – Settings: 60/120

Second layer, same filter, settings: 70/120

Third layer, same filter, settings: 80/120

Deselect.

Make top layer active, save as a psp file for animation shop.

Open Animation shop.

Open the file you’ve just saved.

Edit – select all – propagate paste.

Back to PSP.

Make the text you like and apply the effects you like to have on it.

Edit – Copy.

Back to Animation shop.

Click in your workspace, paste as a new animation.

Edit – Copy

Paste into selected frame.

Hold your mouse button until the text is on the place where you want it, and then release the button.

View the animation to see if you like it.

Now you can save it as a gif file.

Here is another variation

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