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The beautiful tubes are from:

Katra: http://www.katra.co.uk/intro.htm

Vicky: http://users.skynet.be/Dawny/

And Sin: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sincorrigible/

Materials:

2 tubes available here

Text brushes of choice.

Font of choice.

Greg’s factory Output2

Xenofex2

Open a new image: 600x450

Copy and paste your tube.

Choose 2 colors from your tube and set to

Gradient: Sunburst / repeat 3

Center point: 71/49

Focal point: 60/31

Flood fill the bottom layer with the gradient.

Adjust – Add noise: 20 Gaussian

Adjust – Blur: 10 Gaussian

Greg’s factory output – Pool shadow: default

Tramages – Metal peacocks: 0/17/41

Creativity – Blender: default

Add a new layer and move it to the bottom.

Flood fill with your light color.

Screenworks: Dot screen

Go one layer up and add a drop shadow.

Go to the tube layer and add a drop shadow.

Copy and paste your collar tube.

Place it over the other tube.

Add a drop shadow.

Lower the opacity of the collar a bit to make the tube below shine thru a bit.

Activate your Point to point selection tool.

Select the part of the collar you want to disappear and hit delete.

You can put the opacity back to 100.

Add a new layer.

Activate your rectangle selection tool.

Draw a rectangle from top to bottom on the right.

Flood fill with your dark color.

Selections – Modify – Contract 2.

Hit delete.

Add a new layer and flood fill with a light color from your tube.

Put the opacity to 30.

Bordermania – Instant button 1: all settings at 43.

FM Tile tools – Blend emboss: default

Deselect.

Merge down.

Add your text.

Image – Rotate: Right/90

Move it to the rectangle you just have created.

Merge all layers and add the borders.

2px light color

20px black

1px light color.

Select the black border with your magic wand.

Add a new layer.

Apply your text brushes on the new layer within the selection.

Deselect and merge.

Resize to a width of 450.

Add a new layer and drag it to the bottom.

Image – Canvas size: 600x500

Flood fill with black.

Copy and paste your last tube and drag it to the top.

Add a drop shadow.

Put it on a nice place.

X out the tube for now.

Merge your other 2 layers.

Duplicate this layer to a total of 3.

Activate your Point to point selection tool.

Select the girl with collar.

Xenofex 2: Constellation.

Your settings will depend on the tube you have used.

Keep the first 4 settings between 0 and 5 and

The last 2 settings between 90 and 100.

Rotation: 45

Keep original image.

Apply this on all 3 layers, hitting the Random seed button each time.

Make your top layer visible.

Duplicate the tube to a total of 3.

Merge 1 tube with 1 background layer.

Do this with all 3.

Each layer will now look like a completed tag.

Make sure your top layer is active and all layer open.

Save as a .psp file.

Open animation shop.

Open the .psp file.

Edit – Select all – Propagate paste.

Back to PSP.

Apply your name.

Edit – Copy.

Back to AS.

Paste as a new animation.

Edit – Copy – Paste into selected frame.

Put your text in place and save as a gif.

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