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This Tutorial was written on November 22nd, 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

Template of Choice

I used Template071 by Dave @ Spawn's Forum Set Templates

You can find them HERE

Additional Filters needed

VanDerLee – Unplugged-X

VanDerLee – Unplugged – Effects

MuRa's Meister - Copies

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

Open the template

Delete the credits layer

Add the full tube above the Main Background Layer

MuRa's Meister Copies → Wallpaper (rotate)

All at Default

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle of 35

Distance of 550 pixels

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges x3

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen more x2

Change the blend mode of the Black Dots to Soft Light

Select Bottom Right Foreground

Copy and Paste the tube copied layer we did with the blur

Delete the original Bottom Right Foreground

Duplicate the duplicate we just made

Filter → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X → Pattern Offset

Change the blend mode to soft light

Select the Bottom right lines and on the Pattern offset one press delete

Deselect

Delete the Bottom right lines now

Add an outerglow to the layer we just deleted some from

Repeat this all with the upper left triangle

In the middle add your tube a few times, changing the size and angle a bit a few times, sort of like I did with the show in the example

Merge all together

Change the blend mode to luminosity and opacity at 50%

Add your tube to the two rectangles between the pattern offset layers and the solid background layers

Change the blend modes to overlay, opacity at 50%

Change the colors of the Dash Dot Lines to match the tube/set

I added a bit of a stroke to it as well as a bevel

Add your main tube to your canvas

Resize and position to your liking

Duplicate

On the top one

Filer → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0

Change the blend mode to soft light

On the bottom one add a drop shadow

Duplicate the background layer we made 4 times

Hide the original

On the first one

Filter → Un-Plugged → Effects → Disco lights

First at except rotation at 25

On the second one repeat the filter, change the rotation to 50

The next at 75

The next at 100

Change all 4 layers to soft light

Add your name to you tag

Select it all and add two new layers on the bottom add a stroke of black in 10, change the blend mode to overly

On the top add a stroke of 6 in a color that suits the tag

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Monochromatic, Gaussian, 12.5%

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

Add your copyright information!!

Now go to your animation window and unhide all but one of the animation layers

Add a new layer, hide the first and unhide the second

Add a new layer hide the second and unhide the third

Add a new layer hide the third and unhide the fouth

I have my delay set to .15 sec

Press play and if you're happy with your animation and tag save as a .gif and you're done!

Now for the Avi

Create a new Canvas 150px by 200px

Flood fill with black

On your banner merge all but your name and the borders

Drag the black background we just made over

Create a clipping mask

Resize and repostion the banner as you'd like in the avi

Merge them

Drag it back over to the other canvas

Add borders as we did before

Add your name or initial

***Most important***

Add your copyright information

Save to your liking and you're done!