Click the tag to view animation :O) Star of the show Tutorial written by and © to Bits N Bobs 26th June 2009. Results are for personal use only. No monetry gain allowed and that includes placing them behind a paid or donation based membership area. You are not allowed to share/forward or translate any of my tutorials or place them on any blog, website, DVD or anywhere else without my permission. These tutorials are written from my own ideas and any similarities to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. All tutorials are for those with a working knowledge of paintshop pro. I reserve the right to amend these terms at any time. Supplies needed. No scraps needed for this tutorial. Font of choice for your name. I am using MA Sexy Tube of choice. I am using psp12768 American beauty by Elias Chatzoudis This tube is not to be used without an MPT license Template 227 from Missy Plugin, Penta.com Jeans and Dot and cross available here - Garbage collection This tutorial was written in PSP 9 Note Open all the supplies in paintshop except the font. Double click on your font and minimize. 1. Open the template, activate large star 1, with colour replacer select a colour from your tube in the background and #c0c0c0 in the foreground, double right click. 2. Activate large star 2, with colour replacer select a colour from your tube in the background and #c0c0c0 in the foreground, double right click. Layers/ merge/ merge down. Effects/ penta.com/ dots and cross/ 72, 10 and 2 3. Activate rectangle, with colour replacer select a colour from your tube in the background and #000000 in the foreground, double right click. Effects/ penta.com/ jeans/ 10 and 4 4. Activate frame 1, select center of the frame with magic wand, choose a colour from your tube, floodfill, slections/ select none. 5. Activate frame 2, select center of the frame with magic wand, choose a colour from your tube, floodfill, slections/ select none. Layers/ merge/ merge down. Effects/ penta.com/ dots and cross/ 72, 10 and 2 6. With colour replacer select a colour from your tube in the background and #FFFFFF in the foreground, right click and colour over the right frame, select another colour from your tube in the background, right click and colour over the left frame. 7. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, layers/ merge/ merge down. Activate frame layer, selections/ select all, float, defloat, invert. Activate tube layer and hit delete, slections/ select none. Lower layer opacity to 50% 8. Resize tube to 400 pixels high, image/ mirror, copy/paste as a new layer, layers/ arrange/ bring to top 9. Activate star of the show wordart, layers/ arrange/ bring to the top, resize wordart to 400 pixels wide (all layers unchecked ), use your rectangle selection tool to position the wordart. 10. With colour replacer select a colour from your tube in the background and #000000 in the foreground, right click and colour over the right wording, select another colour from your tube in the background, right click and colour over the left wording. Duplicate layer, layers/ merge/ merge down. 11. Turn off layers stars 1 and 2, Missy copyright info and background. Position stars 3 layer to the left hand side, duplicate and position over on the right, layers/ merge/ merge down. *** Note: if you want to save it after step 13 without animating *** End note: 12. Layers/ merge/ merge visible and add your copyright info. 13. Press shift and D three times. You will now have 4 files. Close the original template file. 14. On 1st file with your colour replacer select a blue colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the bottom left and top right stars. Background # ffffff and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the middle left and middle right stars. Select a red colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the top left and bottom right stars. File/ save as image 1. 15. On 2nd file with your colour replacer select the same blue colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the middle left and middle right stars. Background # ffffff and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the top left and bottom right stars. Same red colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the bottom left and top right stars. File/ save as image 2 16. On 3rd file with your colour replacer select the same blue colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the top left and bottom right stars. Background # ffffff and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the bottom left and top right stars. Same red colour from your tube in the background and #f16eb2 in the foreground, right click and colour over the middle left and middle right stars. File/ save as image 3 17. Open animation shop. File/ animation wizard then follow the screen shots clicking next after each one. On the add image part browse to where you saved your files and add them all, click next then finish. View/ animation then file/save as. 18. Create your name in paintshop as normal, copy the file and paste as a new animation into animation shop. Copy the name in animation shop, activate your animation, edit/ select all, edit/ paste into selected frame and then file/save as.