Colorful Love By Gomez Materials needed: A couples tube Plugin -VM Natural Font of choice Let's get started! Open a new image 400x350 Flood fill with white Go to preset shapes use ellipse with these settings. Pick a medium color from your tube and make it your foreground and background color. Draw out a circle in the left hand corner of your tag. Convert to a raster layer. Go to effects/texture effects/blinds with these settings. Click on your top layer merge/merge down. Lower opacity to 80. Duplicate layer. Go to Image/flip...image mirror You should have this. Add a drop shadow. Effects / 3d effects/ drop shadow with these settings. Open your tube. Copy and close. Paste as a new layer on your tag. Duplicate tube layer. Go to adjust/blur/blur more. Effects/distortion effects/twirl at 560 Go to image/resize/ resize to 70% with resize all layers unchecked. Effects/3d effects /drop shadow with same settings as before. Edit/ repeat drop shadow. Duplicate and arrange your swirlys. Mine are in upper right corner and lower left corner. Like this. Click on top layer merge /merge down. Lower the opacity of your swirlys to 60. On the layer pallette click on your tube layer and move it to the top. Add a drop shadow. Effects/3d effect/drop shadow with these settings. Pick a dark color from your tube. Add text of choice. I added Colorfull Love. Place it where it looks best. Mine is placed at the bottom just under my tube. Add drop shadow with these settings. Once you have everything where you want it, click on top layer (text layer),merge/merge down (tub layer) Close off your text/tube layer and you background layer. Leaving your circle layers. Merge /merge visable. While on your new merged layer duplicate 2 more times giving you 3 layers of your circles. Like below. Go to first duplicated layer - effects/VM Natural/sparkle and use these settings. click on next duplicated layer and repeat sparkle but set the random to 110. go to last layer and repaet as above but change the random setting to 78. Now comes the fun part! Open your Animation Shop. Back to PSP and open all layers.Close circle layer 3 and 2. Merge/merge visable Copy - go to AS - paste as a new image Go to PSP and click on undo. Close circle 1 and open circle 2. Merge / merge visable. Copy - go to AS - paste/paste after current frame Go to PSP and click undo. Close circle 2 open circle 3 merge /merge visable. Copy - go to AS - paste/paste after current frame. Left click on frame scroll down to View Animation. If all is good go to File/Save as Whoo Hoo we are done!!!! Hope you like this tut and will share with us your results. Copyright 2008 Amanda Gomez Written for the Le Cafe D'Amis Group. All Rights Reserved.