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You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Brushes of choice
Tube of your choice - I'm using Keith Garvey, which can now be bought here
Font of your choice.  I'm using Lover Letters here

I have rewritten this tutorial because I was informed that the lady brushes I used had been from a different licenced artist than the one I used.  So I have made my own brushes for this using the same artist I used for the tubes.

If you wish to make a brush using the same artist, have a white background, paste you tube as a new layer.  With your tube layer active, got to adjust/brightness and contrast/ brightness/contrast and use the settings brightness = -255 and contrast = 0.  This will turn your tube completely black.  Crop your image to get rid of some of the white background.

Go to file/Export/Custom Brush Tip.  Check that your path will go to where you keep your brushes, and apply these settings.  Don't forget to include the artist's name, so that you know which artist tube you can use them with.  Do not share your brushes if they are from a licenced artist you have purchased.

Now you have your brushes, lets start.  Install your brushes if you did not create your own.  Open a new canvas, 500 x 500, flood filled white.  Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add a new raster layer for each brush, select your brush tool, and select one of the lady brushes you created, and a colour from your tube, click once in the area you want it.  Now I'm using four different ladies, and four different colours, standing next to each other.  Move them around and arrange them to your liking.  Hide your background and tube and merge visible when happy.  Unhide your tube and background, and move the brush layer below your tube layer.

Duplicate the ladies layer, and on the bottom one go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur = 15.

Active the top set of ladies, copy and paste it over into animation. 
Go to effect/insert image effect - underwater with the following settings.

Activate frame one and hit delete.  Now select all, copy, and paste back into Paint Shop as a new image.

Increase your canvas size to 500 x 500, position centre.  Then copy and paste the layers from your other canvas across putting the blur under your animated frames, and tube over the top.  You do not need the top layer of ladies, as we have animated this one.

Add the following drop shadow to your tube.

Now I need to move my tag up to the top of the canvas.  I've locked all my layers together by clicking the layer link toggle (chain) on each activated layer like so.

After you have moved your tag up to the top of your canvas, select your text tool, font of your choice, vector layer, stroke = 0, colour from your tube, write your name.  Position under your tube, stretch as you like, and covert to raster.

Add the following inner bevel, and the same drop shadow you used on your tube.

Add your copyright and crop your image.

Now lets animate.  Hide all your animated layers from the top, accept the bottom one.  Activate your top layer, copy merged, and paste in Animation Shop as a new animation.  Go back into PSP, hide the bottom animation layer, unhide the next one up, copy merged.  Paste after current layer in Animation Shop.  Repeat until you have copied over all the animated layers.

Select all and change your frame property display time to 20.  Animate and save as a gif file.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 27th July 2006 and rewritten on the 16th February 2007 by Faerie Queen.