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This Tutorial was written on August 29^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

But, if you know your tools you can use any program of choice

Tube Of Choise

I am using the awesome artwork of Danny Lee

You can find this tube HERE

Be sure to check out all the awesome tubes he has while you're there

Font

Hibiscus

You can find this free font for download HERE

Texture of Choice

I used texture 03 from this pack HERE

On the page it's the very far left one on the 3rd row from the bottom

Additional Filters needed

VanDerLee – Unplugged-X

DSB Flux – Blast

Eye Candy 4000 – HSB Noise

MuRa's Meister - Copies

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

Open a new canvas

600px by 250px

Open your full body tube

Add to your canvas

Filer → MuRa's Meister → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

Everything else at default

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle – 0 degrees

Distance – 100 pixels

Filter → DBS Flux → Blast

Direction – Right

Percentage – 20%

Repeat this filter 9 more times

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen

Open your texture

Resize to 600px on the width

Add to your canvas

Change the blend mode to luminosity

Lower the opacity to 50%

Add your tube to your canvas once again

This time resize and reposition to your liking

Once you have this duplicate the tube

On the bottom one add a drop shadow

On the top one

Filer → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Use your rectangle marquee tool

to draw out a rectangle on the lower left of the tag

On the main background we made

Copy and paste this

Filter → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X → Pattern Offset

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a bit of an outer glow

Repeat all of this on the upper right

Change the layer of these to just below the tube layer for now

Now we're going to use our text tool

Go to the Hibiscus font

Type out a capital “E”

Size 250px

In a color that is from your tube

Reposition this to the bottom right of the tag

Add an outer glow

Change the blend mode to soft light

Type out a lower case “s”

Size 300 px

Reposition to left of your tag, more toward the upper portion

I did rotate this one a bit to the right

Add an outer glow to this one as well

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add some word art to the upper right box we made earlier

Add your name to the lower left box

Select the whole canvas

Add a new layer

Edit → Stroke

8px

in black

Change the blend mode to overlay

Add a new layer

Edit → Stroke

5px

in a color of choice from the tube

Filer → Noise → Add Noise

12.5%

Gaussian

Monochromatic

*****Most Important*****

Add your copyright information

If you're not wanting to animate you're done with the banner of this tag.

Save to your liking.

For the avatar:

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!!

Now for the animation :D

Duplicate each of the hibiscus flowers we made 3 times so we have a total of 4 layers.

On the first of each

Filter → Eye Candy 4000 → HSB Noise

It will warn you the layer will be rasterized, just click okay on this one :)

Repeat this for each of the other 3 layers

Make sure you hit “Random Seed” between each

Go to your animation window

have the delay set to .15 seconds, set to go on forever

On the first animation layer hide all of the flower layers except for the first two of each

Add a new animation layer

Hide the first of each flower layer and unhide the second of each

Add a new animation layer

Hide the second of each layer and unhide the third of each

Add a new animation layer

Hide the third of each layer and unhide the fourth of each

Press play to see your animation go

If you're happy with your results save as a .gif

You're done!