Supplies Needed:
PSP 8,9,10
Animation Shop
MuRa's Copies
VM Distortion
Supply Folder
Font of your choice
The Tube i used is by ©Vinegar



Ready? Are you sure? Are you positive? Well ok then lets get started!

First off, make sure you install the filter(s) before opening PSP.





Open the tubes that I supplied (or yours), and copy ( shift+D) and close out the original ones.

1. Open a new transparent canvas 400 X 400

2. Now open your tube and duplicate it and close out the original one.

3. Now grab the dropper tool, select 2 colors from your tube a light one and a dark one.

4. Flood fill your canvas with the light color.

5. Copy your tube and paste it onto your canvas as a new layer.

6. Now duplicate it so you have 3 of them. And close out the top 2 copies

7. Now go to effects ~ plugins ~ MuRa's ~ copies and select the star cluster preset, now, on the right hand side of the settings, the first line says " number" change that to 32 and click ok. And rename this layer to "Copies"

8. Now change the blend mode of this layer to "Color (L)"

9. Now unhide the next copy of your tube, and make sure it is active on your layer pallet. And go to effects ~ Plugins ~ VM distortion ~ Gear and use these settings, Teeth: 137 Strength: 147 and click ok and rename this later to "gear". ** NOTE you may need to adjust these settings according to the tube you are using.

10. Now copy the oval tube and close out the original, (you will need to grab your flood fill tool and flood fill the oval the darker color that you chose from your tube) and paste it onto your canvas. Right now this is how your layer pallet should be from bottom to top... Raster layer 1 (the one you flood filled with the light color), "Copies", "Gear", the oval tube, and the 3rd copy of you tube that should still be closed out… are they in the correct order? Good... let's proceed.

11. Now go to effects ~ Distortion effects ~ twirl, and out the setting to 720 and click "ok" Now repeat this step another 3 times. And rename this layer "Twirl".

12. Now unhide your top tube layer.

13. Now this is up to you, before we go any further if you want to add a frame you can, to add a simple frame like I did, all you need to do is go to selections ~ select all… selections ~ modify ~ contract ~ 15… Selections ~ invert... add a new raster layer ~ and flood fill it on the inside of the marching ants, select none, add a bevel or glass effect and make sure it is your top layer.

14. Add your text.

15. Now highlight the "gear" layer, and go to Adjust ~ add/remove noise add noise and use these settings: Uniform checked, Monochrome checked, Noise: 20% and click "ok"

16. Now highlight the "Twirl" layer and go to image ~ free rotate ~ Direction: right "free rotate checked (45.00). Make sure the "rotate all layers" and the "Rotate single layer around canvas center" is unchecked.

17. Now copy merge it, and paste it as a new image.

18. Now hit your undo button 3 times, this will remove the noise and the rotation we just did.

19. Go back to "Adjust" and increase the Noise by 5%

20. Now highlight the "twirl" layer again and go to image ~ free rotate again, and this time change the 45.00 to 90.00

21. Repeat step 17 but paste as a new layer onto the other one that you just pasted.

22. And repeat step 18 also.

23. Now repeat step 19.

24. Repeat step 20 but change the rotation from 90.00 to 135.00…. repeat step 21. and 22.

25. Repeat step 19… your noise should be at 35% now.

26. Repeat step 24, but change the rotation from 135.00 to 180

27. Repeat steps 21 and 22

28. Now change the noise by 5 more % and then change the rotation of the "twirl" layer from 180.00 to 225.00

29. Now copy merge it again and paste it as a new layer again. Then go back and click your undo button 3 times like we did before.

30. Now change the noise from 40% to 45% and then highlight your "twirl" layer again and change the rotation fro, 225.00 to 270.00 and copy merge it and paste it as a new layer.

31. Back to the other canvas again, and click your undo button again 3 times, and then increase the noise by 5% again, it should now be at 50 % and then highlight your "twirl" layer again and change the rotation from 270.00 to 315.00 and copy merge it and save it as a .pspimage.

32. Now open AS and open the saved image that you just saved over in PSP and animate it and save the animation!



And we are finished!!