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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!

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This Tutorial was written on July 31^st 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 FourXsDesigns

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

This has 12 layers

6 close ups, 6 full body

2 Latin, 2 American and 2 Jamaican

Template of Choice

I am using Template054 by Spawn

Which you can find HERE

Additional Filters

PhotoEffex – Scanlines

MuRa's Meister – Copies

Funhouse – Xaggerate

VanDerLee – Unplugged-X

Xenofex 2 - Constellation

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

Open the template in your program

Delete the credits layer

Filter → MuRa's Meister → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

All at default

Duplicate this layer

On the bottom one

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle – 15 deg

Distance – 80px

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen More

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen More

On the top one

Filter → Funhouse → Xaggerate

Both at default (24)

Change the blend mode to Darker Color

Lower the Opacity to 70%

Add a new layer above “Grey Wavey”

Select the Wave

Make a gradient similar to mine:

On the new layer drag out the gradient

(I went from the top left of the wave to the bottom right corner of it)

Add a new layer below this new red white and blue wave

Select → Modify → Expand, by 3

Add the gradient to this new layer again, only drag it out in reverse

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Gaussian, 12.5%, Monochromatic

Using the magic wand tool go to your tube

On the close up select the right bikini cup with the stars

Copy it

And then paste it into your canvas

Filter → MuRa's Meitser → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

All at default

Repeat

Change the blend mode to soft light

Duplicate this layer

Filter → PhotoEffex → Scanlines

Change the width to 3

Leave the blend mode at soft light

Select the Black Wavey

Go to the original layer with MuRa's Meister'd

Copy and Paste

Duplicate

Filter → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X

Pattern Offset

Change the blend mode to soft light

On the bottom one add an outer Glow

Add your full body tube in between these two layers

Filter → MuRa's Meister's → Copies

Line

Change the number to 7

Erase any of the tubes that are outside the wave

Change the blend mode to luminosity

Lower the opacity to 50%

Add some wordart if you'd like

I did American Pride -

Add your tube

Resize and Reposition as you'd like

Duplicate

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Lower the opacity to 50%

Add a drop shadow to the bottom tube

Select the whole canvas

Add a new layer

Edit → Stroke

10 px, center, black

Add another layer

Edit → Stroke

7px, center, any color is fine

Select just it and fill with the gradient we used before

Add noise as we did before as well

Add your name

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

Add your copyright information

Delete the Dots, Grey Wavey, Black Wavey & Main Background

If you don't want to animate save to your liking and you're done!

Duplicate the bottom layer 4 times

There's a total of 5 now

Hide the bottom one

Just saving in just in case I make a mistake :)

On the first one

Filter → Xenofex 2 → Constellation

With the following Settings:

Add it to the other 3 layers

Hitting random seed on each one

Lower the opacity of the layer just about these from 70% to 50%

Have the delay set to .15 and set to go forever

Have for layers in the animation window

only having one visible for each frame

Press play to watch it go

If you're happy with the result save as a .gif and you're done.

If you'd like to make an avi

I did it by merging my layers together and dragging them over and resizing to how I'd like

then readded the borders, names, copyright information

The animation is the same that I used before, only just on the black overlay border instead :)

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This Tutorial was written on May 6th, ‎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 Gabi Spree

This tube is called "I Want Your Skull"

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

Addittional Filters

MuRa's Meister – Copies

Gregs Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow

Xero - Fritillary

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Add your tube to your canvas

Filter → MuRa's Meister's → Copies

Wallpaper (Rotate)

All at default

Move it around just a bit until you get an image you like on the left side

Duplicate this layer

On the bottom one

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle of 25 and distance 375 pixels

Filter → Sharpen Edges

Filter → Sharpen More

On the top one change the blend mode to soft light

Merge these two layers together

Use your rectangular marquee tool to select the whole canvas

Add three new layers to the canvas

On the bottom one

Edit → Stroke

Center, 12 and the color of black

On the middle

Edit → Stroke

Center, 8, medium brown from tube

On top

Edit → Stroke

Center, 2, dark brown from tube

Deselect

On the bottom change the blend mode to overlay

On the middle one

Filter → Xero → Fritillary

With the following settings:

Add your tube to your canvas

Resize and Reposition on the right side

Once you're happy with where it's at

Duplicate

On the bottom add a drop shadow

On the top

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add your name

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

Add your copyright

Go to the background layer and duplicate three times so you have a total of 4 layers

On the bottom of the four

Filter → Gregs Factory Output Vol. II → Pool Shadow

With the following settings:

On the remaining 3 repeat the same filter except add 30 to the diagonal on each one (so 80, 110 & 140)

Open your animation window

Have the delay set to .3 sec, and to go forever

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

Do this for all layers just hiding the last and unhiding the next in line

Press play to watch it go, if you're happy with your result

Save as a .gif and you're done!!

(Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S)

~~Click on Sample to view full size~~
This Tutorial was written on May 5th, ‎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 FourXsDeigns

This tube is called "Molly"

It comes with 12 different layers

6 full body tubes with different color schemes and 6 close ups of those

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

Animation of choice

I am using SimoneAni371 by Scrappy Bit of Fun

Which you can find HERE

Addittional Filters

PhotoEffex - Scanlines

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Choose two colors from your tube

I used the headband and chose a middle blue and a light blue

Add a gradient to your canvas

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

Duplicate your gradient layer

Filter → PhotoEffex → Scanlines

Change the Width to 3

The Rest at default

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add your tube to the center of the canvas

Resize and reposition as you'd like

Duplicate

Filter → Blur → Gaussia Blur, 3.0px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a drop shadow to the bottom tube

Add your tube in between the two gradient layers a couple of times

I flipped one horizontally

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

Add 3 new layers at the top of the canvas

Use rectangular marquee to select the canvas

With the bottom of the 3 new layers selected

Edit → Stroke

12, Center, Black

Repeat this for the next layer up but with a width of 8 and the middle blue color we used for the gradient

The top one with a width of 2

Deselect

On the bottom change the blend mode to overlay

The middle of the three layers

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Uniform, 30%, monochromatic

Add your name

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

Add your copyright

Select the background layer we added the PhotoEffex to

Add your animation to your canvas

If you need to reposition make sure all the animation layers are selected so they'll all move together

With them all selected click Ctrl + G (this will make them a group)

Hide all of the animation layers now but the first one

Open your animation window

Have the delay set to .1 sec, and to go forever

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

Do this for all layers just hiding the last and unhiding the next in line

**I deleted the first 4 frames of the animation since it didn't show to much with where the tube is positioned**

Press play to watch it go, if you're happy with your result

Save as a .gif and you're done!!

(Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S)

Now to make the avatar

Hide the frame layers and the group animation layer

Along with the copyright and name

Start a new canvas

175 px by 200 px

Drag all the layers over

Resize and reposition as you'd like

(make sure they're all selected again so they all resize and move together)

Add the frame as we did with the main tag

Add your animation again if you'd like to, just as we did before

I just resized mine to be much smaller to fit the small avi

Add your name or initial

***Most Important***

Add your copyright

Save to your liking and you're done!

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This Tutorial was written on April 20th, ‎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 trixychuu

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

Animation of choice

I am using SimoneAni156 by Scrappy Bit of Fun

Which you can find HERE

Addittional Filters

MuRa's Meister – Copies

Penta- color dot

~*~*~ 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

Filter → MuRa's Meister → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

The rest at default

Move this layer around a bit until you get something you like

If you can't find something undo and redo the filter until you get it that way

Change the blend mode to Luminosity

Lower the opacity to 25%

Duplicate your gradient layer

Move this layer above the wallpapered layer

Filter → Penta → Color Dot

All at default

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add the words “True Love” in white to your canvas one on the upper left

Another on the lower right

Change the blend modes to soft light, lower the opacity of each to 70%

Add your tube to the center of the canvas

Resize and reposition as you'd like

Duplicate

Filter → Blur → Gaussia Blur, 3.0px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a drop shadow to the bottom tube

Using your rectangular marquee tool draw out a square that goes from the middle of the tube out to the right

On the original gradiant layer

Copy and Paste

Move the new layer up to just under the tubes

Filter → Penta → ColorDot

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a bit of an outer glow

Add 3 new layers at the top of the canvas

Use rectangular marquee to select the canvas

With the bottom of the 3 new layers selected

Edit → Stroke

12, Center, Black

Repeat this for the next layer up but with a width of 8

The top one with a width of 2

Deselect

On the bottom change the blend mode to overlay

The middle Ctrl + click on the thumbnail

Copy and Paste the original gradient again

Move it back up to in between the two layers

Flip Horizontally

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Uniform, 30%, monochromatic

Add your name

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

Add your copyright

Select the layer with the MuRa's Meister filtered tube on it

Add your animation to your canvas

If you need to reposition make sure all the animation layers are selected so they'll all move together

With them all selected click Ctrl + G (this will make them a group), Change the blend mode of the group to luminosity

Hide all of the animation layers now but the first one

Open your animation window

Have the delay set to .1 sec, and to go forever

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

Do this for all layers just hiding the last and unhiding the next in line

Press play to watch it go, if you're happy with your result

Save as a .gif and you're done!!

(Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S)

Now to make the avatar

Hide the frame layers and the group animation layer

Along with the copyright and name

Start a new canvas

175 px by 200 px

Drag all the layers over

Resize and reposition as you'd like

(make sure they're all selected again so they all resize and move together)

Add the frame as we did with the main tag

Add your name or initial

***Most Important***

Add your copyright

Save to your liking and you're done!

~~Click on Sample to view full size~~
This Tutorial was written on March 17th, ‎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 Isobel Von Finklestein

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

Addittional Filters

MuRa's Meister – Copies

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Add your tube to your canvas

Filter → MuRa's Meister → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

The rest at default

Filter → Blur → Radial Blur

100, Spin, Good

Move the center dot to about the center of your canvas

Filter → Sharpen → Sharpen Edges

Repeat

Add your tube to your canvas

Resize and Reposition in the center to your liking

Duplicate

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to overlay

Add a drop shadow to the original one

Add your tube below these two layers once more

Have the heart sort of be the focus on the left side

Once you have it how you want it

Duplicate, Flip horizontally and move to the right side of the banner

Merge those two layers together

Change the blend mode to luminosity, lower the opacity to 40%

Duplicate 3 times so you have a total of 4 layers

Hide your main tube so you can see these layers better

Using your lasso tool

Select around the heart and hands on both sides

On the second heart beat layer (the first is going to remain as is :) )

Filter → Distort → Pinch

Amount 9

On the third, repeat this filter

Amount 7

On the fourth layer, repeat once more

Amount 5

Now, Hide all of them but your very first layer, we'll come back to the animation in a bit.

Unhide your two main focus tube layers.

Add some wording that you'd like in white, change the blend mode to soft light

Use your rectangle marquee tool to select the whole canvas

Add two new layers at the top

On the bottom of the two new layers

Edit → Stroke

Center, 10px and black

On the top

Edit → Stroke

Center, 6px, a color that comes from your tube

Deselect

Add noise to the top one

Change blend mode of the bottom to overlay

Add your name

****Most Important****

Add your copy right information

If you're happy with your result save to your liking and you're done!

Now onto the animation

You're going to open your animation window

The first layer set your delay to 1 sec (that's the one we didn't change at all)

On the second, third and fourth layer the delay is .1 sec

You're going to just have each layer visible for each animation frame

Press play and it should look like a heart beat :)

If you're having with it save as a .gif and you're done!

If you want to make an avi with it

Merge all your layers but the name, copyright and border layrs

Create a clipping mask that's 175px by 200px in size

Add it to another canvas

Add your initial, copyright and borders as we did before

Save to your liking and you're done!

This Tutorial was written on February 15th, 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

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of Buttercrumble

Use must purchase a license to their artwork and can do so HERE

Texture of Choice

I used Texture Pack 11 from Brutal Designs

Which you can find HERE

Additonal Filters Needed

MuRa's Meisters – Copies

Venderlee – Unplugged X

Xenofex 2 – Constellation

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 250px

Open your tube and add to your canvas

Filter → MuRa's Meister's → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate), all at default

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur.

Angle – 15 degrees, Distance – 225 pixels

Add your tube to your canvas again.

Resize and position to your liking.

Once you're happy with that, add a drop shadow to your tube.

Add your tube to your canvas once more

Flip horizontally and place to the far right of your canvas

I had some of mine off the edge as well

Filter → MuRa's Meister's → Copies

Line (random rotate), all at default

Change the blend mode to luminosity, lower the opacity to 30%

Add the texture to your canvas

In between the background layer and the line (random rotate layer)

Reposition if you'd like to

Desaturate

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a new layer

Choose two colors from the tube

I used the socks and chose the sea green and purple

Using your gradient tool

set for foreground to background

linear gradiant

Drag from the upper left to the bottom right corner

Change the blend mode to color

type out happy and put it in the upper left corner

change the blend mode to overlay

type out easter and put it in the bottom right corner

change the blend mode to overlay

Using the lasso tool draw out a wavy line similar to this:

*Make sure you close the lines our you'll get and wave on a straight line sort of deal

Hit “Q” for quick mask

Filter → Noise → Median

I did a radius of 75 pixels

Hit “Q” once more to turn off the quick mask

Hightlight the layer we made the gradient on

Copy and paste as a new layer

Now duplicate this new layer and move straight down a little ways

(hold down shift to do this OR with your move tool selected use the down arrow)

Now Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail of the layer we moved down

On the original wavey line layer press delete

Deselect

Now you can just delete the layer we moved down

Now we have the sort of wavey square that goes across our tag :)

On the layer

Filer → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X → Pattern Offset

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add an outer glow

Now Ctrl + Click on this layer

Above where your layers are click the paths tab

Now at the bottom of this tab there is a cicle with a line around it with nodes (make work path from selection)

Click that button

Use your text tool and hover over the line it made

Your I with the box around it cursor with cange to and I with a wavey line through it when it does right click your mouse and type out your saying

I used “Cute Bunny ~ Cute Bunny ~ Cute Bunny”

Have this text be white

Move the text down as we did before (so it goes straight down and continues to follow the same path as the box)

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add a new layer above everything

Use your rectangular marquee tool to select your whole tag

Edit → Stroke

Width – 8

Use any color for this, we'll be deleting, it's just to make our border

Center

Mode – Normal

Opacity – 100%

Now select this layer (Ctrl + Click the thumbnail)

Select the gradient layer once more

Copy and paste as a new layer

(you may have to move it back above all the layers once again)

Delete the original stroke layer

On the border that is now filled with the gradient

Flip horizontally and Flip Vertically

Add the same outer glow as we did to the wavey line

Add some noise

Add your name to your tag

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

Add your copyright information

Now if you don't want to animate just save as you'd like to and you're done

This is where I save as a .psd file as well so if I mess up somehow I have my original to fall back on

For the avatar

Start a new canvas

200px by 200px

Flood fill with black

On our banner hide the copyright, name, border and merge all the other layers together

Drag the black square we just made over to that canvas

Have it below the merged layers

Create a clipping mask and move it to where you want it so that you see the tube inside the square

Once you have it how you like it merge the layers and drag the merged layers to our smaller canvas

Add a border to your canvas like we did before

Add your name

***Most Important***

Add the copyright

Save and you're done with the avatar!!

Now for the animation of the banner

either undo all the merging and dragging we did before OR close it out and open it back up *as long as you saved it as a .psd before

Now just above the rotated tube layer add four layers all filled with black and they blend mode set to screen

On each of them we're going to add the constellation with the following settings:

Hit the random seed on each one AT LEAST 1 time so that the sparkles are different on each

You can hit it a few times to get something you like more if you're wanting to as well :)

Now once that is all done hide the top 3 black sparkle layers

You can see that all that really shows now is the sparkles :)

We're going to open our animation window now

Have it set to a delay of .1 secs

And to go on forever

On this first animation frame change the opacity of the first layer of sparkles to 60%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 70%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 80%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 90%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 100%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 90%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 80%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 70%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 60%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity to 50%

Now on this frame you're going to unhide the second sparkle layer and change the opacity of this layer to 10%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity of the first to 40% and the second to 20%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity of both to 30%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity of the first to 20% and the second to 40%

Add a new animation frame and change the opacity of the first to 10% and the second to 50%

Add a new animation frame and hide the first layer and the second change the opacity to 60%

You're going to repeat this for each of the following two layers, when you get to the fourth layer at 50% you need to unhide the first layer once again and use it as the gradually increasing opacity layer

Once it's a completed loop you can press play and watch the animation go!

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

~~Click on Sample to view full size~~
This Tutorial was written on November 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

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

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of FourXDesigns

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

Template “4XD Stalker” by me

You can download this HERE

Mask of Choice

I am using Mask 109 by Designs by Vabys

You can find this for download HERE

Additional Filters Needed

Mura's Mesiters – Copies

Penta.com – Color dot

Italian Editors Effect – Effetto TV

VanDerLee – Unplugged-X

EyeCandy4000 – HSB Noise (for animation)

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

Open the template

Image → Duplicate

Close out the original

Delete the credits layer

Choose which layer you're wanting to use

I am going with the red head with the red clothing on

Add it to your canvas

Filter → Mura's Meister → Copies

Wallpaper (rotate)

Repeat this filter, just so there aren't any gaps on our canvas :)

Filter → Blur → Motion Blur

Angle – 25 degrees

Distance – 200 px

Duplicate this layer

Have one above the rectangle layer

and one above the big circle layer

select each of them and press delete so that it's filled with the motion blurred layer

Delete the originals of both of those layers

On the rectangle layer

Duplicate

Select this layer

Italian Editor Effect → Effetto TV

Deselecte

Change the blend mode to screen

Duplicate the big circle layer we made

Filter → VanDerLee → Unplugged-X → Pattern offset

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add your tube to your canvas

I again am using the red head with red clothes

Resize and reposition to your liking

Duplicate this layer

On the top

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0px

Change the blend mode to soft light

On the bottom tube

Add a drop shadow

Now go to the bottom layer of the big circle

Add your tube to the big circle at various sizes and positions

Flip some horizontally

Erase any that is outside of the big circle

Merge them all together

Change the blend mode to luminosity

Opacity at 50%

Flood fill each of the bigger stars with a gradient of choice

Duplicate each of them

Filter → Penta → Color Dot

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add your tubes as you'd like in between the two layers

Change the blend modes to screen

Opacity to 70%

Select one of the stars

Select → Modify → Expand, by 4

Add a new layer below the star

Fill with the gradient from before, going the opposite direction

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Gaussian, Monochromatic, 12.5%

Repeat this for the other star as well

Add a layer about the lines

Select the lines

Flood fill the new layer with the gradient we used before

Change the blend mode to color

Recolor the wordart as you'd like to

I use the same gradient from before

Added a bevel and emboss to them as well

The two smaller stars color to your liking

I bevel and embossed them as well

Select each as we did before, expand by 2 and fill with the opposite color

Add noise as we did before as well on each

Add a new layer above the white background layer

Fill with the same gradient we've been using

Apply the layer mask here

Add your name

Crop the canvas down

Resize your canvas

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

Add your copyright information!!!

If you're not wanting to animate hide the white layer and save to your liking, you're done!

If you want to animate let's continue

Duplicate the bottom rectangle layer we made 4 times

(I always have an extra 5^th on in case I don't like it or just want to keep in unanimated layer)

On the bottom one

Filter → Eye Candy 4000 → HSB Noise

With the following settings:

Repeat this for the other 3 layers, clicking random seed on each

Then you're going to go to your animation window and have all but the first one hidden

Add a new animation layer and hide the first layer and unide the second

Add another hide the second, unhide the third

Add another layer hide the third, unhide the fourth

Set to go forever, delay of .2 sec

Press play

If you're happy with your animation save as a .gif and you're done!!

Here is the non animated version :D