 This tutorial was written on April 19 2015. I used Corel X7, but it should work in other versions as well. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. Please look at my TOU for more info. The supplies you need: A tube of choice. I used a tube by Veronica Nuñez. You can purchase her art at Digital Art Heaven. You need a license to use her art. You’ll need an animation. I’m using “bars” by Missy at Devine Intentionz. Remember that animations can be colourized to match the tube you use. (Look at example at the bottom) A font of choice. I used a font called “Bubblegun”. Materials/plugins used: Mura Meister Copies AlienSkin EyeCandy 5 Perspective Shadow (Optional) EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow AnimationShop or Photoshop for animating. IMPORTANT: DO NOT CROP UNTIL I SAY SO FURTHER DOWN. This can mess up the result of the effects you’re using. Before we start, I would like to point out that I do my animations in Photoshop. Because of that, I start by opening the animation in PSP. I opened this particular animation in Animation Shop, selected all the frames, copied them and pasted as new image in PSP. I then, cropped it to 600x250. If you animate in AS, you can skip what I just told you and add the animation at the end. This will obviously affect how you start the creation. The regular way: Make a new image 600x250 floodfilled with white. (My way: Add a new layer and move it to the bottom. Floodfill with white.) Copy and paste your tube. Add Mura Meister Copies - Wallpaper Rotate - Default settings.(Make sure that the tube is covering the whole canvas. Repeat MM if you need to.) Duplicate this layer. On the original tube layer; go to Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Antique at these settings:  On the copy layer; Adjust Blur - Gaussian Blur set to 5. Change this layer to Overlay or another suitable blend mode. On the same layer, add Effects - Distortion Effect - Curlicues with these settings:  Then go to Effects - Edge Effects and Enhance More. Reduce opacity to 50%. Activate the top layer and add your tube. I had to resize mine to 50%. Place on left side of the canvas and add a dropshadow of choice. I used AlienSkin EyeCandy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow with these settings:  Crop your tag with Merge Opaque. Make sure you’re still on the top layer and add a new layer. Floodfill with a contrasting colour from your tube. I used the blue colour that is on the animation: #3bcafe Select All - Contract by 4. Floodfill the selection with black, contract by 1 and delete. Select none. Add a dropshadow to the frame: 0,0,100,10, Black. Add a wordart of choice. I’m using the one that comes with the tube. I resized it down to 50% and added a dropshadow: 2,2,50,5, Black. I moved it to the top right corner. Activate your text tool. Change the font to Bubblegun, size 60 px, Anti-alias Smooth, Create as Vector. Type your name and convert to raster. Add EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow with these settings:  Add copyright info. Animate: If you animate in Photoshop, just save the file as PSD and open it in PS. Animate as you usually do. If you need a tutorial on how to animate in Photoshop, Abstract has one HERE. This is how to add animations to a premade tag. And Rebel Dezigns has a different tutorial on how to animate in PS. This one is great if you add the animation in your PSP (like I do). Check it out HERE. If you animate in Photoshop, please remember to set the speed on the frames to 0.1 If you animate in Animation Shop and haven’t added the animation to your tag in PSP, here’s what you do: Close all layers except the 4 layers at the bottom. Copy merged and paste in AS. Duplicate the layer so you have the same amount of frames as the animation has. Add the animation like you usually do. Go back to your PSP, close off the 4 bottom layers, unhide the rest. Copy merged again and paste it to your tag in AS, the way you normally do it. Sorry for not being more detailed with how to do things in AS, but it’s been a long time since I animated with AS. Save your creation as gif and you’re done! Here are 2 other sample made by my friends Heidi and Kat:   Thanks for stopping by.
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 This tutorial was written on February 08 2015. I used Corel X7, but it should work in other versions as well. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. Please look at my TOU for more info. The supplies you need: An tube of choice. I used a tube by Kathy Siney called Cherrybaby. You can purchase her art at Digital Art Heaven. A font of choice. I used a font called “Baby Lexi”. Materials used: MuraMeister – Copies Eye Candy 5 – Textures – Marble (Other versions work as well) Eye Candy 6 – Perspective Shadow (Optional) Make a new image 600x250 and flood fill it with white. Add a new raster and flood fill with a colour from the tube. Set background to white, foreground null and activate your rectangle preset shape. Draw out a thin line across the canvas. Center in canvas and convert to raster. Go to Effects – MuraMeister – Copies and change the settings to this:  You might have to play with the Gap settings, depending on how thick your white line is. Activate your selection tool, set to rectangle and choose Custom Selection with these numbers:  Still on the striped layer, promote Selection to layer. Deselect. Rotate this layer 90 degrees to left or right and move it to the left half of your canvas. Do the same steps for the coloured background. Deselect. Move the promoted background to the left a bit so it's not sticking out. See my tag for reference. Hide the top 2 layers for now. Go to the striped layer. Go to Adjust – Blur – Radial Blur and add these settings:  Go to the coloured background, click Effects – Eye Candy 5 - Textures – Marble. You can play around with the settings if you like, but use colours that match your tube. Here are the settings I used:  Add a close-up of your tube, mirror it and place it to the far right. Change the layer properties to Soft Light or one of the other options. Add a drop shadow to the close-up Crop your tag with Merge Opaque. Unhide the top 2 layers and merge the striped layer down to the one below it. The layer name is Promoted Selection 1. Duplicate this layer and rotate the copy 90 degrees to left or right. Move this to the left side and change the layer properties to Soft Light. Add a drop shadow to the original layer. I used 0-0-100-10-Black. Make sure you're on the top layer and add the tube. Add a drop shadow I used Eye Candy Perspective Shadow with the blurry setting. Add a new layer and flood fill with black. Select all, contract by 1, invert and delete. Select none. Add drop shadow 0-0-100-10-Black. Add your name and copyright. Save as jpg and you're done! Thanks for trying my tutorial. Here is another sample, using art by Jen Lambein. Do NOT use her art without permission.  |
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