Trouble

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop 3
Tube of your choice.  I used Olga Levchenko.  Please visit her this talented artist here.
Trouble Mask - here
Transparent Frame in your PSP
Font of your choice.  I used Hotel Coral Essex which you can find here.

Okay, lets get started.  Save your mask into the relevant folder, and place your font where you usually use it from.

Open the tube you wish to use, shift D to duplicate, and close the original.  This is the size canvas we are going to be using, if your canvas is very tight, you may want to increase the size.

New raster layer, flood fill with a bright colour of your choice.  This can either be a colour from you tube, or if like mine your tube is grey, a favourite colour.  I did mine as #8c0ad6.  New raster layer, and flood fill with black.  Click layers/ load/save mask/ load mask from disk.  Find the trouble mask I provided, invert checked, and click ok.  Right click on the top masked layer and merge group.  Move your tube above the mask layer, so that you have something like this.

If like me you used a grey tube, you may want to colourise it to match your background.  With your tube layer activated, click adjust/hue and saturation/colourise.  Set your saturation to 96, and your hue to which ever colour you are wanting to use.  I used 199.

Now we are going to add the frame.  Go image/picture frame and choose Transparent Frame 01.  Then with your selection tool on rectangle, selection on the picture frame layer around your tubes head, like this.

Promote selection to layer, activate your frame and hit delete.  Move the promoted section below your tube.  Activate your tube layer and give it a drop shadow.  I gave mine 2, 2, opacity 80, blur 15.  Position your copyright where you would like it.  I moved mine over to the right.

X out your coloured untouched layer, and merge visible on the rest.  Your layers should look like this.

Duplicate your coloured layer twice so that you have three of this in total.  Activate your top colour, go to adjust/add remove noise/add noise, and with uniform and monochrome checked, settings at 30, click ok.  Repeat this with the other two layers, but change the settings to 34 and then 38.

Activate your merged layer, and select your text tool.  I'm using colour black for mine in the background and the foreground set to null.  Type your text at pixel size 72.  Position it across the bottom of the canvas, and stretch or shrink to your liking.  Make sure your leave enough space for the drop shadow we are going to add.  Convert to raster layer.

Effect/3D effect/drop shadow, and add a shadow with the following settings, 0, 0, opacity 80, blur 10, colour that of your background.  Click ok, and then add the shadow again.  Merge down.

Time to animate.  With your top two noise layers Xed out, and your top merged layer activated, click copy merged, and paste into Animation Shop as a new animation.  Go back to Paint Shop un-X the next noise layer, copy merged, and paste in Animation Shop after current frame.  Do the same with the top noise layer.  In Animation shop, click view animation.  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 14th May 2006 by Faerie Queen.