Supplies Needed:
PSP 8,9,10
Tube of your choice
Font of your choice
Animation Shop
Sqirlz Water Reflections
Mask (122-Kris)
Eye Candy 5 Impact (optional)



OK, now get comfortable, got your snacks, drink, or whatever you like to have when doing PSP? Good let's get started! This tag is not too hard to do.



1. Open a new transparent image 350 X 350

2. Now with your dropper tool select a color from your tube. Or chose a different one, I chose a different one due to the fact that the tube I chose she was wearing a white outfit.

3. Add a new raster layer

4. Now flood fill the new raster layer with the color you just chose from your tube.

5. Now go to layers ~ load/save mask ~ load mask from disk and select the mask that you just downloaded. (122-Kris)

6. Now go to your layer pallet and right click on the mask layer and select " Merge Group"

7. Now flood fill the bottom layer (I chose black because I thought the red heart would look good on a black background).

8. Now merge all and save it as a .jpeg you will be needing this later on so remember where you save it. And do not close it out just yet.

9. Now add your tube, remember to place it where it will not be covering the "Wave" area.

10. Now if you want to add a simple frame to it like I did, highlight the bottom layer, and go to selections ~ modify ~ contract ~ and set the number to around 6 and click OK. Now go back to selections ~ invert. Now add a new raster layer, and flood fill the inside of the marching ants with your color. Now I used EC 5 Impact Glass to do mine but you can just add an inner bevel instead. Then go to selections ~ select none.

11. Now you will need to move your frame layer to the top of your layer pallet.

12. Add your text and watermark.

13. Now hide the bottom layer, and merge your visible layers.

14. Now open the Sqirlz program, and open the bottom layer that you saved earlier, on the left hand side, you will see a red circle, click on that, now you are going to draw a section around the "wave" part of the tag. Once you go around it right click and it will "disconnect" the feature. This is the area that is going to be animated.

15. Now up top you will see an icon that looks like waves, click on that, and then click on the button that says "Add Flow" this is where you control the flow direction, I have mine at 90. these settings can be played with. To save it click on the .gif button and save it.

16. Now open your animation up in AS.

17. Back to PSP… not highlight the top layer, this should be the layer that has your tube, text, watermark, and frame. Now copy this layer. Now paste it as a new animation over in AS.

18. Now in AS, find out how many frames that your animation has, for instance, mine has 20 frames, duplicate the image that you just pasted as a new animation the same amount of times that your animation that you made in the Sqirlz program is. Example: the animated wave has 20 frames, the one you pasted should have 20 frames.

19. Now once you have the same amount of frames for both your animation and the "tube" highlight the "tube" and go to edit ~ select all, now go back to edit~ copy. Now activate your animation that you did in the Sqirlz program, and then go to edit~ select all…… edit~ paste~ into current frame. This will paste all of the frames of your "tube" into the animation.

20. Now animate it and save it and your done!