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This Tutorial was written on August 27^th, 2012 by Ashly
It is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy and do not post elsewhere.

Do not translate or script.
This tutorial is written as if you have a general knowledge on how to use the program.

***What you'll need***
Program of Choice.
I am using Photoshop CS5

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of Joahannah von Frankenstein aka Koffin Kandy

Use must purchase a license to use her gorgeous artwork and can do so HERE

Texture of choice

I'm using Texture7 by Vix

Which you can find HERE

Animation of Choice

I am using ani3 from Chaos Trashed HERE

It's the 5^th one down in the post

Filter Needed

MuRa's Meisters – Copies

Venderlee – Unplugged X – Pattern Offset

~*~*~ Let's Get Started~*~*~

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Add your tube to your canvas

Filter → MuRa's Meister → Copies → Wallpaper (rotate)

All at default

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle – 25 degrees

Distance – 450 pixels

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen More

Add the texture to your canvas

Change the blend mode to luminosity and lower the opacity to 50%

Add your tube to the left side of your canvas

Resize and reposition to your liking

I flipped mine horizontally as well

Filter → MuRa's Meister → Copies → Line

Lower just the number to 4

Change the blend mode of this layer to luminosity and lower the opacity to 25%

Use your rectangle marquee tool to drag out a square towards the bottom of your canvas

On the original background

Copy and then paste

Move this layer up above the line of the tube we just made

Filer → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X → Pattern Offset

All at default

Change the blend mode to soft light, add a bit of an outer glow to this something that matches the tube

Add your tube to the right of the canvas now

Resize and reposition to your liking

Duplicate this layer

On the bottom one add a drop shaow

On the top one

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to Overlay

Add the tube again, flip it horizontally

Have just the little brain cupcake showing in the bottom left of the canvas

Duplicate this once you have it where you like it

Add a drop shadow to the bottom one

On the top one

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to Overlay

Now we're going to add your word art

I did make my own for this one, you can use similar if you'd like :)

I just did Brains are Sweet (the name of the tube I'm using)

Add your name

Use your ellipitcal marquee tool to select the entire canvas

Add two new layers on the canvas

On the bottom of the two new layers

Edit → Stroke

I did Width of 8px

Center

Black

Change the blend mode to overlay

On the top one, add the stroke again

This time a width of 5px

Use a green color from the tube.

Filer → Noise → Add Noise

Amount – 12.5%

Gaussian

Monochromatic checked

*****Most Important****

Add your copyright information!

If you don't want to animate you're done!

If you do want to animate then we're going to continue on!

Open up the animation we're using.

Gin is awesome and does them in .pfd form so it's super easy to add them to your tags in photoshop

I deleted the credits layer

Then you're going to select ALL the layers and just drag them over to the canvas we want them on

Now a cool trick for this...hold down the shift key while you do it and the layer you're dragging will be centered!

Now the fun part of animating LOL

We're going to go to our animation window

I have mine set on a .1 sec delay, set to repeat forever

Hide all of the layers of our animation except the very first one

Change the blend mode to luminosity

Now we're going to add a new layer to our animation window

Hide the first layer of the animation and unhide the second layer

Change the blend mode of this one to luminosity as well

Add a new animation layer to the animation window

hide layer two of the animation in our main layers

Unhide layer three

Change the layers blend mode to luminosity

Keep going on with the pattern until you've done all of the frames for the animation

Then when you've done that, press play and you can watch it go!

If you're happy with how it looks save as a .gif and you're done!

Now if you want to make an avi I just hide the credits, border and any words

Merge them all down flat

Start a new canvas 150px by 200px

Flood fill with black

Drag this black layer over to our main canvas we've been dealing with

move it below the merged layer we made

Create a clipping mask here

(hold down alt while your mouse is over your layers pallate and when the mouse changes to two intersecting circles click once)

It'll only show where that black square is now!

Move it around a bit until your happy with what you see in the square

Merge the two layers together and drag back to your smaller canvas we made for it

Center it and all that

Add the borders as we did before on the main canvas

Add your copyright info

Add Either your name or initals

You're done!!