Firestarter*REMAKE*

This is an old tutorial, but remade

Artwork ©VeryMany

In order to use her art you must purchase a license and her tubes at VeryManyTubes

Font used: Champagne & Limousine

Filters:

 Filter Factory E / FireStarter

Muras Meister / Copies

Greg's Factory Output Vol.ll / Pool Shadow

The example was made with PSP X and Jasc Animation Shop

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1.) Open a new raster layer 750x300pixel / floodfill with white .....we are going to paint our own

background

2.) Select your Oil Brush 

3.) Choose colors of your choice to paint, here is an example:

4.) Once you are done, convert to raster layer

5.) Muras Meister / Copies / Wallpaper rotate / default settings

6.) Adjust / Blur / Radial Blur

7.) Effects / Illuminations Effects / Sunburst / choose a color of your choice

8.) Effects / Art Media Effects / Brush Strokes

9.) Duplicate / Effects / Filter Factory E / Fire Starter (you may need to play with these settings

to your liking)

10.) I set the blend mode of this layer to burn, but that depends of the colors you choose, so play

around

11.) Merge visible / Effects / Edge Effects / Enhace

12.) Duplicate / Image resize / 90% / uncheck "resize all layers"

13.) Effects / Distortions Effects / Warp

14.) Image / Mirror

15.) If you want to have a black border around / Effects / Edge Effects / Erode

16.) Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow

17.) Rectangle Tool / foreground none / background gradient metal steel / linear / 0 / 0 / invert

18.) Convert to raster layer / duplicate / and move it a little bit up, so that you have enough

space for your name / merge down

19.) Image / Free rotate / 20 degrees left and move this layer between the background and the

warp layer

20.) Eraser Tool / erase the parts that you don't want to see

21.) Drop Shadow as before

22.) Place your name

23.) Add a tube of choice / drop shadow

24.) Add the artist's © and url and your license

25.) Selection / select all / modify contract by 3 pixels / invert

26.) Add a new raster layer and fill with your metal steel gradient / drop shadow 1 / 1 / 45 / 5 /

repeat with -1 / -1

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Animation

1.) Highlight your background layer / Greg's filter / Pool Shadow

2.) Edit / copy merged / paste as new animation in your animation shop (AS)

3.) Back to your PSP / undo your last step and repeat Pool Shadow (change Diagonal to 71)

4.) Edit / copy merged / paste after current frame in AS

5.) Repeat step 3 and 4 till you have 5 frames in AS (change Diagonal to 81, 91 and 101)

6.) In AS / Edit / select all and change the frame properties to 20

7.) View animation and save as ......gif

~~~~DONE~~~~