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This Tutorial was written on September 10^th, ‎2013 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 choice.
I am using the artwork of Tatjana Art

You must purchase a license to use her tubes and can do so HERE

Texture of Choice

I am using 02 by AnOrderOfFishsticks

You can find this for download HERE

Brush of Choice

I am using french4 by Obsidian Dawn

You can find these for download HERE

Addittional Filters

PhotoEffex – Scanlines

Xenofex 2 – Constellation

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Choose two colors from your tube

Add a gradient to your canvas

You can use mine as a sample for how you might want it to look

Add your tube to your canvas at verious sizes and different points, once again, use mine for a bit on an example of what to do here.

Once you have them where you're wanting them, Merge all the tubes together and change the blend mode to luminosity

Duplicate this layer

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Filter → PhotoEffex → Scanlines, change the width to 3

Add the texture to the canvas

Position how you'd like

I rotated mine 90 degree clockwise

Resize a bit if you'd like as well

Using your custom shapes tool, add a new layer above the texture

Draw out a couple of hearts how you'd like them and then select them and press delete on the texture layer

Delete the custom shape layer once you're done with this

Add a drop shadow to the texture layer

Duplicate your main gradient background layer and move to the top of your canvas

Change the blend mode to color

Add a new layer

Select inside the two hearts

Use the brush french4 to stamp out the writing inside both of the hearts in white

Change the blend mode to soft light

Lower the opacity to 50%

Now write out believe in love a couple of times and place on your canvas

You can use mine as a sample again :)

Have this in black

Change the blend mode to overlay

Add your main tube to your canvas.

Center it as you'd like it.

I erase a bit of the ribbon that was still showing on the right

Duplicate this layer once you're happy with it's size and position

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0px, change the blend mode to soft light

To the bottom on add a drop shadow

Add a new layer

Edit → Stroke

Center, Black, 12px

Change the blend mode to overlay

Add your name

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

Add your copyright information

If you're not wanting to animate you're done!

Save to your liking.

If you do want to animate on we go!

Crop your canvas to it's size

Go down to your texture layer

Duplicate 3 times so you have a total of 4 texture layers

using your magic wand select inside the two hearts

Filter → Xenofex 2 → Constellation

With the following settings:

Repeat this for the following 3 layers

Hit random seed once before you hit okay on each one.

Hide all of the texture layers except for the bottom one

Open the animation window

Change the delay to .15 seconds, set to repeat forever

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

Add a new layer hide the second layer, unhide the third

Add a new layer hide the third layer, unhide the fourth

Press play and watch your animation go!

If you're happy with your results safe as a.gif and you're done!

For the avi:

Hide the name, credits, border and main tubes layers.

Start a new canvas 200 px by 200 px

Select all of the still visible layers of our original canvas

Drag them over to our new smaller canvas

Move the layers around a bit until they're where you're wanting them

(I just showed the top right heart portion in the middle of my avi)

Crop down to the size of this new smaller canvas when you're happy with what is visible

Add the border as we did before but use a stroke size of 6 for this one

Add your name

****Most important*****

Add your copyright information

Animate it just as we did the banner

Save to your liking (if you animated or not)

And you're done!