Wild Wave

Artwork ©Andrew Sussmann 

In order to use his art you must purchase a license and his tubes at Mistaken Art

Font used: Pump Demi Bold LET 

Filters: Distort / Ocean Ripple 

Muras Meister / Copies 

Xero / Porcelain 

Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 / Impact / Chrome 

The example was made with PSP X and Jasc Animation Shop 

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1.) Open a new raster layer 600x250 pixel 

2.) Copy and paste your tube as new raster layer / move it to the left side 

3.) Duplicate / at the bottom one / Muras Filter / Copies / Wallpaper Rotate / default settings 

4.) Effects/ Distort / Ocean Ripple 

5.) Repeat Ocean Ripple 

6.) Duplicate / highlight your top "Ocean Ripple" layer 

7.) Selection Tool / Circle / Mode to ADD 

8.) Selection Invert / hit "DELETE" on your keyboard / select none 

9.) Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow 

10.) Highlight the bottom "Ocean Ripple" layer / Adjust / Blur / Motion Blur 

11.) Repeat Motion Blur 

12.) Effects / Edge Effects / Enhace 

13.) Copy and paste your tube again, mirror, placement on the right side / set the layer mode to SOFT LIGHT 

14.) Rectangle Tool / foreground none / background a color (doesn`t matter which one) 

15.) Convert to raster layer and duplicate twice, you should have this now 

16.) Merge these 3 layers / Effects / Distortion Effects / Wave 

17.) Effects / Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 / Chrome / Gold 

18.) Add a small drop shadow 

19.) Crop your image / Highlight your top layer (tube) 

20.) Effects / Xero Porcelain / default settings , but blue channel to 0 

21.) Add a drop shadow 

22.) Add a new raster layer / Selection / select all / modify contract by 2 pixels / selection invert 

23.) Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 / same settings as above / selection none 

24.) Add drop shadow ( 1/ 1 / 50 / 5) , repeat with -1 / -1 

25.) Effects / Edge Effects / Enhace 

26.) Time to add the artist`s ©/ url and license and your name (I applied Chrome to my example above) 

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Animation 

1.) Edit / Copy merged / paste as new animation in your Animation Shop (AS) 

2.) Back to your PSP/ Highlight your "Wave" layer / Pick Tool 

3.) Add 20 points to your position X / Copy merged / paste after current frame in your AS 

4.) Back to PSP / add another 20 points / Copy merged / paste after current frame in AS 

5.) Repeat step 4 till your animation runs smoothly without hiccups (you should have 12 frames) 

6.) View animation / save as ............gif 

~~~~DONE~~~~ 

Made by Huronna: 

This tutorial was written 11th of June 2010 and the copyright is mine