S P I K Y H A L OYou will need:
Font of your choice - I used one called Kozmetica Script
Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of
Melissa DawnLicense and Tubes available at
Creative Design OutletYou can find this tube
HERE and I used graphics that came with the tube.
Filters:DSB Flux/ Bright Noise
Eye Candy 4000
Fun House/Gyro
Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow
MuRa's Meister/Copies
Ok let's begin Change your Foreground and your Background to two colors from your Tube
Change your Foreground to Gradient ... with the following settings
Open a New Image 600x250 ...
I used the flowers from the tube and pasted them as new image.
Duplicate and close one off to use later.
Effects > MuRa's Meister > Copies > Wallpaper Rotate > Increase amount till the
background is covered since I only used the flowers I increased to 40.
Adjust> Blur> Motion Blur with the settings at 45 Angle at 100%
Then Image> Flip and Image > Mirror redo the Motion Blur
Continue to do this Motion Blur > Flip > Mirror for about 6 times. Duplicate go to the top layer
Effects > Distortion Effects >
Spiky Halo ... with the following settings
Mirror >
Apply the Spiky Halo Effect againChange the Blend Mode of this layer to
Light or one that works for you.
Adjust > Sharpness > Unsharp Mask at these settings
Merge Visible > Duplicate
Effects> Fun House > Gyro at these settings
Change the Blend Mode of this layer to
Light or one that works for you.
Merge down you should have your background and flowers or accent piece at this point
Now have your gradient in your background section > the foreground is Transparent
Open your Rectangular Tool > Draw a Ribbon horizontal across your tag.
While still in VECTOR Layer > Objects > Align > Center of Canvas > Raster Layer
Effects > Graphics Plus > Cross Shadow at Default settings
Selections > Select All > Float
Selections > Select All > Defloat >
Selections > Modify > Select Selection Borders at the following settings
New Layer > Fill with an accent color Rename
Border Duplicate this layer twice (for a total of 3) ...
Effects> DSB Flux> Bright Noise ... with the setting of 38
Activate the
Copy of Border layer ... Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then OK
Activate the
Copy (2) of Border layer ... Edit> Repeat Bright Noise ... click on the Mix button once then OK
Selections> Select None ... Hide the 2 Top Border Layers for now
If you are using an accent piece, like a flower etc
and wish to have the same animation as my display continue on
But if not skip this section that is in Red.
Make two more copies of the flowers or your accent piece, and name them Accents.
For a total of three layers of Accents
Accent Layer > Effects > Eye Candy 4000 > HSB Noise at the following settings
Activate the Copy of Accent layer ... Edit> Repeat HSB Noise ... click on the Random Seed
button once then OK
Activate the Copy (2) of Accent layer ... Edit> Repeat HSB Noise ... click on the Random Seed
button once then OK
Hide the 2 Top Accent Layers for now With the
Top layer active
Paste your Tube as a New Layer, position where you like resize if necessary
Apply a suitable Drop Shadow
New Layer > fill with the same color as the Border layer...
Select All > Select > Contract by 2 > Drop Shadow 0, 0, 100, 10 Black
Tutorial written on the July 7, 2012
©Beverly Kelley