This tutorial was written on April 19 2015. I used Corel X7, but it should work in other versions as well. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. Please look at my TOU for more info. The supplies you need: A tube of choice. I used a tube by Veronica Nuñez. You can purchase her art at Digital Art Heaven. You need a license to use her art. You’ll need an animation. I’m using “bars” by Missy at Devine Intentionz. Remember that animations can be colourized to match the tube you use. (Look at example at the bottom) A font of choice. I used a font called “Bubblegun”. Materials/plugins used: Mura Meister Copies AlienSkin EyeCandy 5 Perspective Shadow (Optional) EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow AnimationShop or Photoshop for animating. IMPORTANT: DO NOT CROP UNTIL I SAY SO FURTHER DOWN. This can mess up the result of the effects you’re using. Before we start, I would like to point out that I do my animations in Photoshop. Because of that, I start by opening the animation in PSP. I opened this particular animation in Animation Shop, selected all the frames, copied them and pasted as new image in PSP. I then, cropped it to 600x250. If you animate in AS, you can skip what I just told you and add the animation at the end. This will obviously affect how you start the creation. The regular way: Make a new image 600x250 floodfilled with white. (My way: Add a new layer and move it to the bottom. Floodfill with white.) Copy and paste your tube. Add Mura Meister Copies - Wallpaper Rotate - Default settings.(Make sure that the tube is covering the whole canvas. Repeat MM if you need to.) Duplicate this layer. On the original tube layer; go to Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic Antique at these settings: On the copy layer; Adjust Blur - Gaussian Blur set to 5. Change this layer to Overlay or another suitable blend mode. On the same layer, add Effects - Distortion Effect - Curlicues with these settings: Then go to Effects - Edge Effects and Enhance More. Reduce opacity to 50%. Activate the top layer and add your tube. I had to resize mine to 50%. Place on left side of the canvas and add a dropshadow of choice. I used AlienSkin EyeCandy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow with these settings: Crop your tag with Merge Opaque. Make sure you’re still on the top layer and add a new layer. Floodfill with a contrasting colour from your tube. I used the blue colour that is on the animation: #3bcafe Select All - Contract by 4. Floodfill the selection with black, contract by 1 and delete. Select none. Add a dropshadow to the frame: 0,0,100,10, Black. Add a wordart of choice. I’m using the one that comes with the tube. I resized it down to 50% and added a dropshadow: 2,2,50,5, Black. I moved it to the top right corner. Activate your text tool. Change the font to Bubblegun, size 60 px, Anti-alias Smooth, Create as Vector. Type your name and convert to raster. Add EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow with these settings: Add copyright info. Animate: If you animate in Photoshop, just save the file as PSD and open it in PS. Animate as you usually do. If you need a tutorial on how to animate in Photoshop, Abstract has one HERE. This is how to add animations to a premade tag. And Rebel Dezigns has a different tutorial on how to animate in PS. This one is great if you add the animation in your PSP (like I do). Check it out HERE. If you animate in Photoshop, please remember to set the speed on the frames to 0.1 If you animate in Animation Shop and haven’t added the animation to your tag in PSP, here’s what you do: Close all layers except the 4 layers at the bottom. Copy merged and paste in AS. Duplicate the layer so you have the same amount of frames as the animation has. Add the animation like you usually do. Go back to your PSP, close off the 4 bottom layers, unhide the rest. Copy merged again and paste it to your tag in AS, the way you normally do it. Sorry for not being more detailed with how to do things in AS, but it’s been a long time since I animated with AS. Save your creation as gif and you’re done! Here are 2 other sample made by my friends Heidi and Kat: Thanks for stopping by.
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25/3/2020 12:21:35
Thank you so much for this great tut Lithy
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Lithy
8/4/2020 13:03:29
That looks so adorable! Thank you so much for this set and for trying my tut <3
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Lithy
27/11/2022 11:38:36
Thanks!
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