Groovy Baby

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Krusty's FX Vol. III 1.0
Mask from Weescotslass here (download WSL_Masks121-180. I'm using 144)
Fonts of choice.  I used A&S Porkchop (This is not a free font) and Girls are Weird
Tubes of choice.  I'm using the fantastic art of Joel Adams, which was purchase from CILM

 

Okay, let's get started by first putting your mask in your mask folder, and installing your filters.  Once you have done that, open a blank white canvas of 500 x 500.  Add a new layer, and flood fill with your chosen gradient.  I'm using Rainbow, on the style Radial, repeat = 6.  Then go to Effect/Image Effect/Seamless Tiling and apply these setting, or whatever setting your prefer.

 

 

Then apply the filter Krusty's FX vol. III 1.0/Radial Texturizer, both settings at 33.  Then apply the Grid Mover from the same filters.  Change the grid size to 20, the Grid X and Y to 42, and the line width to 20.  You should now have something like this:

 

 

Next you can apply your chosen mask, if not using any from the link provided.  Before you merge the mask, select your pick tool, and drag out your mask until in fits your canvas, if you have chosen a mask that doesn't.  Now merge group.

 

Take your chosen tubes, and add them as new layers.  Resize if need be, position and add a soft drop shadow.  I did V & H = 0, Opacity = 44, and Blur = 10. 

 

Add your name.  I'm using the Rainbow gradient for the font, with a background colour from the rainbow, line width 2.  I changed the direction of the font to 'vertical and left'.  Change the 'kerning' until your letters are close enough together.  Add the same drop shadow you added to the tubes, and position this in the centre of your tag.  I also added a 'Groovy' over the font in a script font, in white.  Angle it before you convert to raster.  Now originally on this I added Eye Candy Gradient Glow, glow width set to 5.  But I thought I'd give you an alternative way, in case you didn't have this.  With your font layer active, go to Selections/Select All/Float/Defloat, then go to Selection/Modify/ Inside/Outside Feather, select Outside, and Feather amount 5.  Add a new layer underneath your font, and flood fill with a light colour from your tube.  Select none.  Then merge your font down to the flood filled layer.  You get the same effect as Gradient Glow, it's just takes longer.  Then add the same drop shadow, and add your copyright information.

 

Now you can save your tag here as a jpeg, or go onto the animation.  Hide all layers, except the mask and background layers.  Copy merged and paste over into Animation Shop.  Go to Effects, Insert Image Effect, and select Rotate Colors, and apply these settings.

 

 

Select all.  This will give you 9 frames including your original frame.  Back in Paint Shop, hide the background and mask layers, and unhide all the other layers.  Copy merged, and paste into Animation Shop as a new animation.  Duplicate this to 9 frames, select all, copy, and then paste into selected frames on your animated background.  Animate and save as gif, and you are done.   Here is another using a different colour gradient, and a different mask.  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 20th November 2008 by Faerie Queen.