Girlz Zone Only

Supplies

Tube of choice - I am using the artwork of Popeye Wong which is free to use with credit

Fonts of choice - I am using Impact and Cookie

Plugins: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow and Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact Gradient Glow

No Scraps

**This is an old tag I made some time ago and have redone it as a tut, adding a few extra effects.

It predominantly uses the effects in PSP**

Let's begin...

Open a new 700 x 600 blank canvas flood-filled white

Select your Preset Shape tool and set to Triangle
Foreground - #000000
Background - #fed33e
Set Width to 10.00
Create as Vector

Hold Shift key and draw out a Triangle
Objects > Align > Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Duplicate three times and hide top two layers

Activate bottom Triangle

Effects > Distortion Effects > Pixelate with the following settings:

Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow with the following settings:

Duplicate and resize by 75%
Position slightly down and to the right

Duplicate again and resize by 75%
Position to the upper left

Layers > Merge > Merge Down
Repeat
Rename Pixelate

Duplicate twice and rename first one Fine Leather and second one Glass

Activate Fine Leather

Adjust > Texture Effects > Fine Leather with the following settings:

On Glass,
Adjust > Texture Effects > Mosaic - Glass with the following settings:

Lower the opacity of Fine Leather to 80 and Glass to 70

Activate top Triangle layer
Resize by 90%
Apply same Gradient Glow as above
Position between two Triangles to the left

Apply a drop shadow:
V - 7
H - 5
Opacity - 30
Blur - 2.00
Colour - #000000

Activate second Triangle layer

Effects > Distortion Effects > Polar Coordinates with the following settings:

Resize by 50%
Position to the lower left of Triangle

Apply same drop shadow as above but lower opacity to 15

Paste Tube of choice as new layer
Resize and position to liking
Apply a drop shadow of choice

Crop and resize

Select your Text Tool and font of choice
I am using Impact
Colour is Black

Type out your text of choice
Position within the main triangle
Duplicate

On bottom text layer,
Effects > Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact > Gradient Glow with the following settings:

Rename Caution Text and Caution Text Glow

Select another font of choice
I am using Cookie
Foreground - #000000
Background - #fed33e
Stroke width - 2.00

Type our your name
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Apply a drop shadow of choice

Finally, add your © copyright, licence and watermark, then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

** IF YOU WISH TO ANIMATE PLEASE FOLLOW THESE NEXT STEPS **

Activate your Caution Text layer and hide Caution Text Glow
Edit > Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop
Edit > Paste as New Animation

Back to PSP
Activate Caution Text Glow
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Select All and change the Frame Properties to 80
Now save as a GIF and you're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial!

::st!na::

Here is a non-animated version:

© Tutorial written by Stina on 26th July 2009
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