Peace Out

This Tutorial was written on November 9, 2005 and is copyright solely to me. Any resemblance to other tutorials is purely coincidental.

What we're making

What We Need:
PSP (any version)
Animation Shop
Texture HERE
HippyDisplay Font HERE
PeaceSign Preset Shape HERE
Tube of Choice

Let's Begin

Place your preset shape in your shape folder

Open PSP

Open the jpeg of my texture. Promote to layer. Duplicate this layer. Arrange to top. Rotate image 120 degrees to the right. Back to original layer. Duplicate again. Arrange to top. Rotate image 240 degrees. Activate your bottom layer again. Go to Selections, Select All, modify, contract by 100. Invert. With your bottom layer activated, hit delete on your keyboard. Move up one layer with ants still marching, hit delete again. Again, leaving the ants, move up one later, hit delete again. Selections, Select None. You should now have a more manageable size for your patterns.

Using your preset shape included, background and fill both set to a nice rainbow gradient. Colours are up to you.

Tug and pull until you like the position of the shape over your pattern. Make sure your shape falls within the square of your pattern. Convert to raster layer. I applied a SuperBladePro coconutice to give it a gentle bevel. Again, up to you.

Once you're happy with your preset shape placement and bevel, use your magic wand to click OUTSIDE your shape. Go to Selections, modify, expand by 1

Leave your ants marching, activate your bottom pattern layer. Hit delete once
Ants still marching, activate your middle pattern layer, hit delete once
Ants still marching, activate your top pattern layer, hit delete once. You should now see only your preset shape, with the pattern on the inside. Selections, Select None. I added a slight drop shadow to my preset shape to give a sense of depth. I leave that up to your creative discretion.

Add your tube at this point. Add your text. I used Hibiscus on mine, which is a pay font. The link above will take you to a free download of HippyDisplay, which is a font that works well for the "peaceout" theme of the tag. I used the same gradient on my font as for my shape, and added the same SBP effect.

Using EyeCandy4000, apply a gradient glow with the following settings:
One of the factory settings for this effect is called "soft rainbow"... I used that and just adjusted my glow width. The colours are already pretty wonderful

Apply this glow to both your text and your tube.

Now is the time to add in your copyright information and your watermark. I used the fabulous work of Joel Adams. You must have a GILD license to use this image. Go to www.internationalillustrator.com for further information.

Now, I want you to add a new raster layer, send to the bottom, and flood fill with white. Using your crop tool, crop your image down as far as you can.

Hide your middle and bottom layers of your pattern. You should have showing the following layers: Text, Tube, copyright, watermark, Preset Shape, and top layer of pattern.

Go to Edit... Copy Merged
Open AniShop... Edit... Paste as new animation
Back to PSP. Hide top layer of pattern, unhide middle layer. Edit... Copy Merged
To AS... Edit... Paste after current frame
Back to PSP. Hide middle layer of pattern, unhide bottom layer of pattern. Edit..Copy Merged
To AS... Edit... paste after current frame
Staying in AS, go to Edit, Select all
Go to Animation... Frame Properties... change this number to 20

Now is the time to resize your animation if you'd like. Save as a .gif, and you're done!

Thank you for trying this tut. Hope you enjoyed it!