Blade

For this tutorial you will need a tube and font of your choice.

I am using one of my favorite artists Ismael Rac. You need to purcase a liscence to use his work.

I got this tube when he still with MPT but he is now with AMI

You can purcase a liscence from AMI

 http://www.artisticmindsinc.com/

outside filters

dsb flux....bright noise

Toadies....ommadawn

Font I'm using is Blade II which you can find here

preset shape .here

Open a new image 600x600.

Set your preset shape to eclipse. Background null and foreground a colour from your tube, stroke solid size 15.

Holding down your shift key draw a large circle. Go to objects and align centre. Do not convert to raster, we are going to add our name.

Select your Blade font and set to floating move your cursor on your circle and when you see the little half moon under the A and type your name  around the circle.

When you are happy go to selections and promote selection to layer and select none, drop shadow. Now you can convert your circle to raster.

Still on your circle layer add an inner bevel and a subtle shadow.

(I used the default settings but changed the bevel to no. 9.)

Paste your tube and add a shadow.

We are going to add our other shape now so make sure you are on the bottom layer.

Preset shape O. Background a colour from your tube foreground null. Make the shape slightly smaller than your circle, when happy convert to raster.

Duplicate this layer 3 times for a total of 4 layers.

Make the bottom shape layer active and gassian blur settings 25.

Now go to your plugin folder and select toadies. ommadawn using default settings.

Now go to the next shape layer and add dsb flux, bright noise settings 50, mix.

Now go to the next layer and add bright noise but click the mix twice and on the last shape layer click the mix layer 3 times.

Crop your tag and add your copyright.

Now we are going to animate.

close off two of the shape layers and copy merged. Paste into animation shop as a new animation.

Back in psp close off that layer and open the next shape layer, copy merged and in AS paste after current frame.

Back in psp close off that layer and open the last shape layer. Copy merged and paste after current animation in AS.

All done.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.