Animated Name Sig

supplies needed:

PSP any version

Animation Shop (AS)

Kingthings Pique n Meex font HERE

A smallish animation of choice, 

one with not too many frames is good to start with

HERE are a few good ones

Tutorial written by Mizteeque on 26th Jan 2015

Written in psp9 but any version should work

I have seen this tutorial done several times, several different ways

this is the way I do it,

OK lets begin!!

Open animation shop

Open your chosen animation 

ctrl & A to select all frames, copy

Open psp

paste animation as new image

Open blank canvas 600 x 350

floodfill white

Text Tool

Kingthings Pique n Meex font, size 140, background colour black

type your name

convert to raster

Select all, float, defloat

Floodfill tool

In your materials palette, set your foreground to pattern

click the thumbnail image and choose your animation image from the dropdown menu

angle 0, scale 100

floodfill your name

new raster layer

DO NOT DESELECT

back to your animation image

in your layer palette, click the eye to close off the top layer

now go back to your materials palette

choose the animation image again

you must choose the animation not current pattern or it wont change

floodfill your name

new raster layer

still keep it selected

back to animation image

close off the middle layer

back to your materials palette

choose your animation again

If using a different animation with more frames (layers) 

repeat the above steps as many times as necessary to ensure you 

floodfill your name with each layer from the animation (I hope that makes sense)

after the last layer has been filled

new raster layer

expand by 2

floodfill with a metallic gradient of your choice

contract by 3

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

dropshadow your gold outline 2,2,50,8, black

ok now to actually animate it

There are several ways of getting your tag into animation shop

with just a few frames this is how I do it

My example only has 3 frames

so I close off the top two floodfilled layers

copy merged

Paste as new animation in AS

back in psp

close bottom frame, 

open middle frame,

copy merged, 

paste after current frame in AS

back in psp

close middle frame,

open top frame

copy merged

paste after current frame in AS

save as gif and thats it your done!!

Here are a few more samples made with different animations

Pretty in Pink

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Acid Lullaby

Scrapkit - Taggers Inn Forum exclusive A Touch of Pink or scrapkit of choice

Font of choice - I am using Angelface

Filter - Eye Candy 4000, Gradient glow (optional)

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

d/s = Dropshadow

Open blank canvas 150 x 150

floodfill black

select all, contract by 10, hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

copy

Open blank canvas 750 x 250

paste as new layer the black frame you just made

duplicate twice, position next to each other so you have a 

3 box frame, merge visible

c/p paper of choice under your frame

magic wand, tolerance 10, feather 0, mode add

click inside each box on the frame layer

invert and hit delete on your paper layer

deselect

* c/p tube

position to your liking in middle box

magic wand, click inside middle box on frame layer

expand 2, invert

hit delete on your tube layer

deselect *

change blend mode to luminance (legacy)

repeat above steps from * - * twice more

resize and change blend mode to your liking on each one.

add d/s to your frame

Merge visible

duplicate

image, rotate, left 5

c/p elements of  your choice

and position to your liking

d/s all elements

Add name, Angelface font, size 48, pink,

I added a white gradient glow to it, d/s

add copyright information

merge visible

save as png

Thats it your done!!

Tutorial written by Mizteeque on 10th Jan 2015

Written in psp9 but any version should work

any similarity to other works is purely coincidental and unintentional

Dark Elf forum set

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 6th January 2015

written in psp9 but any version should work

Any resemblance to any other works is purely coincidental and unintentional

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice I used the stunning artwork of  No Flutter

My Supplies HERE
Font of choice - I used Nightmare5

Filters:  Distort & Eye Candy 4 - Gradient Glow (both can be found HERE)

Muras Meister - Copies

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OK lets begin!!

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

d/s = dropshadow 2,5,50, 8 black

Open blank canvas 750 x 250

c/p tube

muras - copies, wallpaper rotate, default settings

effects, distort, wave, default settings

adjust, blur, motion blur

angle 45, strength 100

duplicate

on duplicate

effects, distortion effects, wave

following settings

(or whatever looks good to you)

using your freehand selection tool

make a random selection zig zagging across your tag

like my screenshot below

selections, invert

hit delete on your keyboard

Keep selected

c/p tube again a few times

and arrange inside the selection to your liking

then hit delete on each tube layer

deselect

Merge tube layers together

change blend mode to difference

hide bottom layer

merge visible 

unhide bottom layer

on shape layer

effects, eye candy 4, gradient glow

black halo, glow width 5

repeat gradient glow

but this time use Fat white settings

glow width 3

make bottom layer active

preset shapes, rectangle, using a fore/back gradient

made from two colours from your tag, draw out a 

rectangle from one side of your tag to the other

convert to raster, 

effects, penta.com, jeans, amount 62, width 7

change blend mode to overlay

Tag should now look something like this

make shape layer active

c/p some greenery as new layer, move to left

duplicate, image mirror & flip

change blend modes to what looks good to you

c/p sparkles as new layer, move to left

duplicate, image, mirror

c/p tube as new layer

d/s

New raster layer

floodfill with gradient we used earlier

select all, contract by 2

hit delete

deselect

You can leave the border as is or change the blend mode

to something you like, or add noise, its entirely upto you.

add copyright & name

merge all flatten

Save as jpg.

For Avatar

Selection tool, custom selection

top & left 0, bottom & right 200

selections, edit selection

move to a part of your tag you like

edit selection

copy merged

paste as new image

add border as we did for the tag

add name and cr

merge all flatten

save as jpg

Thats it your done!!