This Tut was written on the 11th of March 2009
Any similarity to any other tutorials is purely coincidental
TOOLS NEEDED
Tube of choice, I am using the great work of PinupToons please do not use this tube without the proper license to do so you can purchase this tube
Here along with a license.
Filters needed are L en K, Penta dot n cross, Muras Miester perspective tiling, Vm toolbox
Diamond preset shape
1. Open a blank canvas 250 height and 600 width and floodfill with a color of choice from tube.
2. Effects l n k trouble set at 207,0,187,0, 191,152, or just slide them up and down to use a color to match your tag.
3. Take your magic wand click on the outside of the boxes and delete (you have to play around with it that way its all deleted n looks a bit smooth)
4. Add your penta dot and cross set at 95, 45, 0
5. If you have ec 4 go ahead n apply a gradient glow but you but its not necessary
6. Add a new layer floodfill with another color of choice to match ur tube
7. Effects texture effects blinds 3, 30, horizontal and light from left checked color set to white.
8. Use the two colors u previously used one for forground and one for background, preset shape diamonds width set to 3 n make a diamond length as tall as your canvas width is up to you.
9. Image free rotate rotate right 90 degrees. Move this down under your L n K layer.
10. Effects muras miesters perspective tiling set at 77, -46, 0, 100, 0, 100, 255
11. New layer select all contract by 9 selections invert floodfill with a color of choice, selections select all contract by 6 and invert floodfill with another color, selct all contract by 3; invert and floodfill with the 1 color choice.
12. Preset shape square same colors as before make it big enough and center it in canvas convert to raster.
13. Magic wand click inside your square and add penta dot and cross as before but change 95 to 50.
14. Add your tube of choice selections invert delete. dropshadow your tube and square layer. Merge your tube onto your square layer.
15. Duplicate your square layer 3 times that way u have a total of 4 layers, effects vm toolbox instant tile settings set at 101 on both colums, 2nd layer 187 n 118, 3rd layer 101 n 131. top layer stays the same.
16. You can now add any other embelishments to this as our tag is about done, add name, copyright, and saying of choice.
Animation
X out square layers 2 n 3 copy merged and paste as a new animation into animation shop. Do this with square layers 2 n 3 but paste it after current frame n change the frame properties between 30-50. save it. you can do the same thing for your avatar.