Xmas sparkle - Forum set

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 21st November 2014

written in psp9 but any version should work

Any resemblance to any other works is purely coincidental and unintentional

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice, preferably one with a close up

I am using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis 

which can be purchased from his store HERE

Xero, Fritillary

VM Toolbox, Zoom blur

DSB Flux, Linear transmission

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Note: c/p = copy and paste as new layer

OK lets begin!!

open blank canvas 750 x 250

make a radial gradient using two contrasting colours from your tube

angle 90, repeats 10

floodfill canvas

Xero fritillary with the following settings:

granularity 7

agression 36

tesselation 13

variation 36

VM toolbox, zoom blur, amount 40, adjust 25

effects, edge effects, enhance

duplicate

select all, contract 15, hit delete

on bottom layer

dsb flux, linear transmission

slice size 4, offset 30, blend 50, vertical checked

deselect

Now you will see rectangle shapes

using your selection tool, set to rectangle, select round the 2nd one

new raster layer

floodfill selection with the same gradient, but change to 

linear, angle 45, repeats 0

deselect

duplicate and move to cover the 4th rectangle

merge down

duplicate and move to cover the 6th & 8th

and so on until every other rectangle is covered

make sure you merge all the floodfilled rectangles together

select all, float, defloat

c/p small tube, duplicate and position over  rectangles where you like

invert, delete

deslect

change blend mode to luminance legacy

c/p close up tube as new layer, resize if necessary

drag to top of layer palette

d/s

make frame layer active

d/s 2,2,50,8, black

and again but change horizontal and vertial to -1

duplicate twice

apply xenofex 2, constellation on each frame layer

with the following settings, making sure to hit random seed on each layer

add name and cr information 

close off top two frame layers

copy merged

open Animation shop

paste as new animation

back to psp, close bottom frame layer, open middle one

copy merged

paste after current frame in AS

back to psp, close middle layer, open top layer

copy merged

paste after current frame in AS

save as gif

For avatar

In psp, custom selection tool

left, top 0, right, bottom 150

selections, edit selection

repeat animation instructions as above 

dont forget to add your name and cr info to the avatar

save as gif

Thats it your done xx

Here is another example