Twirls

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This tutorial is copyrighted to Kaye @ Kaye’z Designz. You may print out for personal use but do not post to any site or distribute as your own. Any resemblance to others online is purely coincidental.
Supplies needed: PSP any version. Tube of choice. I used tube from Barbara Jensen. Be sure to include copyright on your image. Font of choice (I used Novak Spring).

Step 1 Open new canvas 500 X 500 and Flood Fill with white. Add a New Layer.

Step 2 Pick two colors to use (I used 89377D for foreground and CC8BCD for background). Change foreground to Gradient: Linear, Angle 45, Repeats 10, Invert - Unchecked. Flood Fill your canvas. Go to Distortion Effects / Twirl: -720.

Step 3 Selections / Circle, put cursor in center of canvas and draw out a circle till you have a nice looking Twirl. Invert Selection and hit the Delete key. Apply Distortion Effects / Twirl: -720. Then again at 720. Resize Twirl to 250 X 250 and move to top left corner. Go to Effects / Plugins / Simple / Top Left Mirror.

Step 4 Go to Effects / Artistic Effects / Colored Foil using Custom 3 preset (Blur 40, Detail 80, Color - C0C0C0, Angle 133). Duplicate this layer and Resize by 90%. Duplicate new layer and Resize by 90%. Repeat this step 4 more times for total of 7 Colored Foil layers.

Step 5 Hide your white background layer and Merge Visible the Colored Foil layers. Unhide your background layer.

Step 6 Copy your tube and Paste as New Layer. OPTIONAL: Duplicate tube layer and move below original tube layer. Go to Effects / Plugins / EC5 Impact / Motion Blur: Direction 135, Length 351.44, Taper 65, Compress Sides 35, Opacity 40, Mask Selection 50. Adjust settings to suit your tube.

Step 7 Highlight original tube layer and apply Drop Shadow: V & H 3, Opacity 60, Blur 8, Color - Black.

Step 8 Add your name using font of choice, Size 72, Stroke 1.5, Direction - Vertical and Left. Apply Drop Shadow: V & H 2, Opacity 60, Blur 2, Color - Black. Save as .pspimage to retain layers for future changes. Save as .jpg using Jpeg Optimizer to send thru group.

ANIMATION

Step 9 If you want to animate Duplicate Twirl layer once. Go back to original Twirl layer and apply DSB Flux / Bright Noise: Intensity 50, Mix. Go to copy of Twirl layer and apply DSB Flux / Bright Noise: Intensity 55, Mix.

Step 10 Hide your copy of Twirl layer and Copy Merged. Open Animation Shop and Paste as New Image.

Step 11 Back in PSP unhide copy of Twirl layer and hide original Twirl layer. Copy Merged. In AS Paste after Current Frame. View Animation and if to your liking save as gif.

All done! I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. Remember this is just a guide. Experiment using different colors, gradients or patterns, images and settings. Any questions you can reach me here kayewinters@zoomtown.com. Written 8/7/07 by Kaye of Kaye’z Designz.