I participated in a Contest held by CDO one of the challenges was to write a tutorial with only things created entirely by us so, here is what I came up with!! I hope you like it!

This Tutorial was written on August 2^nd, 2011 and is of my own creation.

Any similarities to another tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy or claim as your own.

*Supplies Needed*

 Program of choice

I used Photoshop CS3

Template by me you can download HERE

Tube(s) of Choice

I am using the awesome work of Dean Yeagle

You must purchase a license as well as the image to use it

You can do so HERE at CDO

***Filters Needed***

Mura's Meister's – Copies

Xero – Porcelain

Penta – Jeans

Jeux de lignex - Entralacement

Xero – Fritillary

Eye Candy 4000- HSB Noise (For animation)

*~* Remember that all tutorials are guidelines!! Add your own spin on this and make it your own creation*~*

~Let's Get Started~

Open the Template

Image ---> Duplicate, Okay

Close the Original

Delete the Credits Layer

Expand the canvas

Image---> Canvas size

I did 650 px x 650 px

Go to background layer and flood fill the new portions of the canvas with white

Click + Click on thumbnail of large circle layer

Create new layer and flood fill selection with a color from your tube

Deselect and delete the original large circle layer

Paste your tube onto your canvas

Filter ---> MuRa's Meister ---> Copies

Default setting but change the bottom left drop down to Wallpaper(rotate)

Ctrl + Click on the new colored large circle thumbnail in the layer pallate

Select ---> Inverse and with the rotated tube layer click delete

Filter ---> Pixelate ---> pointillize

Cell size of 8, click okay

Change the blend mode to Luminosity

Create new Layer above the Large Circle back

Ctrl + Click on the large circle back thumbnail in the layer pallate and flood fill the selection on the new layer with a color of your choice.

Deselect and change the blend mode to Color

Copy and past your tube onto the Canvas again

Resize, erase and adjust to your liking

Add a drop shadow.

Filter ---> Xero ---> Porcelain

All default settings except slide the blue channel all the way to the left to 0

Click okay

Filter ---> Sharpen ---> Unsharp Mask

Amount: 50%

Radius: 1.0 pixels

Threshold: 0 levels

Select two colors from your tube as your foreground and Background color

Select your gradient tool

Create a new Layer above your right small circle

Add your gradient, deselect and then delete the original right small circle layer

With the new right small circle layer selected

Filter ---> Penta ---> Jeans

Create a new layer below the layer we're working with

Ctrl + Click

Select ---> Modify ---> Expand by 4

On the new layer you just made flood fill with one of your two colors

With the background layer you just created selected

Filter ---> Noise ---> Add Noise

Amount 15%

Uniform

Monochromatic

Repeat this process for the left small circle but use the other color of the two you selected

I actually used a green just slightly darker than the

Make a new layer above the Right Square Ctrl + Click the square and flood fill with color of your choice. Delete the original right square layer.

Click on your brush tool selected, choose a small soft round brush and choose a lighter color than what you had for the main color of the right square.

Create a new layer just above it

Ctrl + Click on the square and then draw some squiggles in the selection you made on the new layer.

Filter ---> Blur ---> Gaussian Blur ---> 10 pixels

Deselect

Merge those two layers together

Filter ---> Jeux de lignex ---> Entralacement

The numbers set at the following:

0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 25, 25, 0

Repeat this with the left Square layer.

Add your tube to the two square where you'd like them.

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B (converts to B&W) Use default settings in the box that pops up

Change blend mode to Soft light

Create a new layer above the three rectangles towards the bottom of the layer list.

Select each but flood fill all on the new layer with the same color and delete the originals

Filter--->Xero---Fritillary

With the following setting

5,5,10,39

Go to your background layer and create a new layer

Flood fill the new layer with a color of your choice

Add a mask to this layer and invert

With your brush tool selected get a soft round brush size 350 px

And click once in the middle of the circle and it should show through as some new color from the mask

Recolor your word art as you'd like to.

I added a Bevel to the Oops...

I added noise with the same settings as before to the background of that as well as a drop shadow

Then I added a bevel, drop shadow and outer glow to the I did it again portion

Add your name to the Tag

Image ---> Trim

Top Left Pixel

all boxes to trim selected

Resize to the size you'd like

***Most Important***

Add your Copyright Info

Now, you can stop here, hide your background layer and save as a .png or .jpeg

Or onto the animation :D

Merge Your 4 small circle layers together

Duplicate the final layer of them all 4 times so there is now a total of 5 layers

Click on the bottom layer

Filter ---> Eye Candy 4000 --- HSB Noise

With the following Settings:

7, 14, 26, 0, 0.14, 0.14, smooth fractal and seamless tile checked

Repeat this on each of your layers hitting random seed each time

Open your animation window

Add enough Animation layers so there are 5 total

hide all of your layers in your layer palatte and then unhide them one at a time to correspond with each of the animation windows.

Make sure the you have it set on forever and the delay time set at 0.15 sec

Press play to make sure you like the effect

Then you just need to save as a .gif

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S

Click save and then name it what you'd like to and click save again.

You're done!!

Way to go and I hope you enjoyed doing my tutorial!

Please feel free to send in any results so I can see what you come up with!

Here is What the unanimated version looks like: