Wobble Sig Tag
1. Open a new image 500 bij 500 transparente background. Floodfill with white. Open
the monkey tube in PSP.
2. Set foregroundcolor dark brown and your background to a wood pattern. You can choose your own colors and tube of course.
3. Layer new layer. Click on the text tool. Find a good thick font, I used Poppycock . Text size 100 , float and antialias checked. Set your text on the layer. Copy and paste as new layer. Delete the first text layer. This way your text is in the middle of the image.
4. Effects/3D Effecs/Innerbevel with preset pillow and put the elevation to 30.
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow with these settings: H & V on 2, Opacity on 75 and blur on 10. Use the foreground color as drop shadow color.
5. Copy and past the monkey tube as new layer. Repeat step 4 on the tube. Layers/arrange/Move down. Set the tube on the text the way you think is best. I have made an example of how i have it on my letter C:
6. Open the layer palette and call the white layer layer 1a, the layer with the monkey layer 2a and the layer with your text layer 3a. Make the text layer active.
7. Duplicate the text layer 3a and call it 3b. Effects/Geometric effects/Twirl - and put it on 35. Effects/sharpen/sharpen.
- Duplicate the text layer 3b and call it 3c. Effects/Geometric effects/Twirl - same settings. Effects/sharpen/sharpen.
- Duplicate the text layer 3c and call it 3d. Effects/Geometric
effects/Twirl - same settings. Close layer 3b, 3c and 3d.
Make layer 3a
active.
8. Duplicate the text layer 3a and call it 3e. Effects/Geometric effects/Twirl - and set it on (minus 35) -35. Effects/sharpen/sharpen.
- Duplicate the text layer 3e and call it 3f. Effects/Geometric effects/Twirl - same settings. Effects/sharpen/sharpen.
- Duplicate the text layer 3f and call it 3g. Effects/Geometric effects/Twirl - same settings. Close layer 3e,3f and 3g. Make layer 2a active.
9. Duplicate the layer 2a and call it 2b. Image rotate with 10 to the right. Effects/sharpen/sharpen. Open layer 3b and place the monkey on the text.
- Duplicate the layer 2b and call it 2c. Image rotate with 10 to the right. Effects/sharpen/sharpen. Open layer 3c and place the monkey on the text.
- Duplicate the layer 2c and call it 2d. Image rotate with 10 to the right. Effects/sharpen/sharpen. Open layer 3d and place the monkey on the text. Close layers 2b, 2c and 2d. Make layer 2a active.
- Duplicate the layer 2a and call it 2e. Image rotate with 10 to the left. Effects/sharpen/sharpen. Open layer 3e and place the monkey on the text.
- Duplicate the layer 2e and call it 2f. Image rotate with 10 to the left. Effects/sharpen/sharpen. Open layer 3f and place the monkey on the text.
- Duplicate the layer 2f and call it 2g. Image rotate with 10 to the left. Open layer 3g and place the monkey on the text.
10. Make the white backgrpund layer active and duplicate this layer 6X call these layers 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f en 1g.
11. We are going to merge some layer now so close all layers by clicking on the glasses in the layer palette. When you merge the layers make sure the white layer is the active layer.
Open layer 1a, 2a and 3a. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 1. Close this layer.
Open layer 1b, 2b 3b. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 2. Close this layer.
Open layer 1c, 2c and 3c. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 3. Close this layer.
Open layer 1d, 2d and 3d. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 4. Close this layer.
Open layer 1e, 2e and 3e. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 5. Close this layer.
Open layer 1f, 2f and 3f. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 6. Close this layer .
Open layer 1g, 2g and 3g. Layers/Merge/Merge visible. Call this layer now layer 7. Close this layer.
12. Duplicate layer 6 and call this layer layer 8. Layers/arrange/on top.
- Duplicate layer 5 and call this layer layer 9. Layers/arrange/on top.
- Duplicate layer 1 and call this layer layer 10. Set this layer above layer 4.
- Duplicate layer 3 and call this layer layer 11. Layers/arrange/ Move up.
- Duplicate layer 2 and call this layer layer 12. Set this layer above layer 11.
This is how your layer palette should look like:
13. Double on the selection tool and put in these settings:
Image cut to selection.
14. Image resize 50%. Make ure all layers is checked. Then for each layer in the layer palette: Effecten/Sharpen/Sharpen.
Make sure that all layers are open. Save you image as psp file.
Open animation shop.
15. Go to file/Preferences/General program Preferences. Click on Layered files, you should have these settings:
16. Go to file open and find the psp file you just saved. Open it.
17. Image/Select all. Animation/Frame Properties/15.
18. File/Save as. Choose a name for your animation and click on save a pop up box will come up now. Click on next all the time and last on finish. Your done.
I hope you had fun making this tutorial.
27 september 2003, © Copyright Cinderella-Designs.