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Start with a new Image 350 width x 200 height (yup, small!)

Floodfill White

Then open the tube you've chosen to use

Take two contrasting colours from the tube - I chose a dark and lighter blue

Have the darker colour in the Foreground box of the Materials palette

Now go to Gradient in your Materials Palette and apply the following settings

Then add a new Layer to your image canvas

and floodfill with the gradient

Duplicate the layer

Image

Mirror

and then set the Blend Mode of the upper gradient layer to Overlay

then

Merge Visible

(You want both of the angles of the gradient to show so it may

depend entirely on the colours you use as to which Blend Mode you use - perhaps Soft Light

or Hard Light or Burn - play around with the settings until you get one you like - then Merge Visible)

Then

Apply Tramages Tow the Line on the default settings

should be like these

then

Image

Rotate Right (not Free Rotate - we actually want the whole canvas to move)

and apply the Tramages Tow the Line again

Image, Rotate Left to get it back to how it was

and

then copy and paste your tube onto the tag canvas

Place to the left of the tag centre

then

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Layers

Merge Down so both tube layers are on the same layer

Apply a favourite largish dropshadow of choice

Then

Crop the canvas to take the excess tube away

(Use your Crop tool andon the right hand side of the tool palette

and see Snap Crop Rectangle to: and choose Merged Opaque and click tick)

Layers

Merge Visible

and then

Image

Add Borders

and choose a 3 pixel symmetric border in your lighter colour

then

a 5 pixel border in your darker colour

then

Layers

Promote Background Layer

and

Image

Canvas Size

and choose 550 x 400

Add a new Layer at the bottom

Now we're going to repeat the above steps in regards to the gradient

so

Floodfill the canvas and repeat the gradient floodfill, duplicate, mirror, blend and merge visible

(Important - Hide the original layer you made BEFORE you merge visible)

OK

So you've now got the same gradient background as before

and apply the Tramages Tow the Line - only the first step, not the rotate bit

Duplicate the original smaller tubed layer four times - and hide the 5th original top layer for now

and on the bottom copy

apply Mura Meister Copies on these settings (NOTE: Make sure you untick the Fade Out box - my

graphic shows it ticked, so untick it)

on the next layer up apply Mura's again but this

time all you're doing is changing the Shift X slider from 100 to 70

Note: You may need to Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen the individual layers

once the Mura's have been applied

Use your eye to see if there's a lot of blurry smudge on the tube on the layer - if so, sharpen

but watch out for the criss cross effect - make sure it's not too vivid, best slightly smudged than

over sharpened!

ok so

Next layer up - change the X Shift slider from 70 to 40

and finally on the fourth layer up - change from 40 to 10

Now unhide the original small tubed layer and apply a good dropshadow to it

Add a new Layer to the top of the Layers Palette

and

Selections, Select All

then

Selections

Modify, Contract by 15

then

Selections, Invert

and now floodfill with Black

Selections All again

and Selections, Modify Contract by 10

Selections Invert and this time, floodfill with the lighter colour

Keep Selected

Selections All

and contract once more by 2

Add a new Layer above the others and floodfill with Black

Selections None

Now copy and paste your original tube as a new layer

Place over to the left of the tag, in the gap left by the Mura's

Apply a drop shadow and then move the tube below the two frame layers we've just made

Now open the wordart I've provided or Make your own based

on the feel and theme of your chosen tube - make sure the wordart is on one layer

Paste as a New Layer

Place below the main tube as mine

Duplicate

Image

Flip

and move this flipped wordart BELOW the Mura's layers

Now add your copyright info and place on the frame - fits lovely :)

and then add your name in a font of choice

You may like to add a Gradient Glow to the name - up to you :)

Now here's the part for animating

Hide the Mura layers except the first (bottom) one

Edit, Copy Merged and take to Ani Shop

Paste as New Animation

Back to PSP

Hide the bottom Mura's and unhide the next one up

Edit, Copy Merged

back to Ani Shop and Paste AFTER current frame

Back to PSP and repeat the above for the next two layers of Mura's

OK - so in Ani Shop we've got 4 frames

NOW

Back to PSP

Hide all the Mura's layers except the top Mura's layer

Make it active and Image, Mirror

now Edit, Copy Merged

Back to Ani Shop

Paste After Current Frame (which should be the last frame - Frame 4)

Back to PSP and hit the Undo arrow to get it back to how it was

Now, hide the top Mura's layer

and go to the next one down the palette

Repeat as above not forgetting to hit Undo each time you go back to PSP

So do this for all 4 Mura's layers in PSP and then

Hopefully in Ani Shop you now have 8 frames of Animation

Click on the first frame

Edit, Select All

And have the Frame Properties on 33

View, Animation

and Save as .GIF (it's quite a large file size, but nothing too hefty)

That's it - all done :)

Hope you enjoy your new tag - think I'll be doing a few more

animated tags like this so hope you had fun with this tut :)