Friday, October 21, 2011

Crazy for Cano

Supplies Needed
Tube - I am using the amazing art of Jose Cano which you can purchase at pte.
Font - I am using LTZapfino Three
Mask - You can get here.  I am not sure where I ever got this mask but if it is your please let me know so i can give you the proper credit.
filter - xenofex 2

Ok, are you ready?
And off we go!

New image 600x600
flood fill with white
new raster layer
flood fill with a color from your tube
I used #573f37
Apply the mask
merge group
now we need a close up of our tube
new raster layer
ctrl+a or selections - select all
edit - paste into selection
ctrl + d or select none
apply the mask again
merge group
merge visible

take a break ... lol
now comes the fun part we are going to start creating some of the animation
This is what you should have so far

now to draw the white lines we need to do the animation on the mask
we need the
pen tool
straight line
foreground - white
line style - solid
width - 5.00
the width you can play with to your liking
in the screenshot you can see the white outline I drew with the pen tool

convert to raster layer
duplicate two times
you should have three layers of the lines we drew
now go back to the original line layer

xenofex 2 - constellation
use the settings in the following screenshot

now go to second line layer 
xenofex 2 - constellation - random seed
now go to third line layer
xenofex 2 - constellation - random seen

shew made it through this so far right

ok get your tube you don't want the close up this time
paste as new layer on our working image
place where you feel it looks best
I placed mine on the right

drop shadow
v-3   h-3   opacity-100   blur-5

ok time for some text
we are going to make the big C
font is LTZapfino Three
size 425 Bold Color-white
apply your C
selections-select all
selections-float
selections-defloat
selections-modify-contract
contract by 2
layers - new raster layer
flood fill the selection with the color from your tube
or use mine which is #573f37
select-select none

duplicate the white C layer 3 times
you should have 4 layers of your white C
on the first layer apply drop shadow same one we used before
now to the second C layer
apply  xenofex 2- constellation ( same settings as before)
now to the third C layer
apply xenofex 2- constellation change the random seed
now to the fourth C layer
apply xenofex 2- constellation change the random seed

I moved the brown C down to right above the first white C layer

now lets add the "I'm razy for ano"
same font as before but now change the size to 125
we are adding a white border to the text with a stroke width of 1
forground white
background #573f37
apply the text and the apply a drop shadow as we did before

add your artist info, copyrights, etc.

now add your name
mine is the following settings

font LTZapfino Three
size 125  Bold
stroke with 1
foreground white
background #573f37

same drop shadow as before

now time for the animation part

hide all your constellation layers
unhide the first one on the lines we drew and unhide the first one of the "C"

edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste as new animation

go back to psp
hide the constellation layers you just copied
now unhide the second layer of the lines and the second layer of the "C"
edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste after current frame

go back to psp
hide the constellation layers you just copied
now unhide the third layer of the lines and the third layer of the "C"
edit - copy special - copy merged
go to animation shop
paste after current frame

now save your tag in animation shop
and you should have this
and one i made for the artist of the tube I used




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