Feuer frei! Forum Style tut (Animated, No Scraps)

First of all lemme say this is not gonna be for the faint of heart. It is HEAVILY animated and will require a lot of jumping back and forth between PSP and Animation shop. Also it could take quite awhile to get the flames just how ya want em.

And in case you were wondering basic English translation would mean  "Bang bang
Fire at will!"

Supplies used:

Till Lindemann tube by one of my all time favs Ed Mironiuk. This is a private commission but you can find loads of his tubes at CDO.

Rammstein font. Get it from Dafont HERE

Pixelette font

Eyecandy 5:Nature (Fire)

Eyecandy 4000 (Glass and Gradient glow)

Texture brush of choice

Animation Shop

Rammstein logo (or something for your background)

Click for full size then right click and save...

Open a new image size 650 by 250

Flood fill black.

C/P Rammstein logo (Or whatever you are using for your background)

Add a new raster layer and "paint" with your brush. (If your brush is too bright just lower the opacity a bit :P)

C/P Close up tube in the left corner. Change layer property to screen and opacity to about 42.

C/P your main tube in the center of the tag.

Using your lasso tool select around the area you want to add the flames too (Example mine was the arms so I traced along the arm with my lasso then just traced a empty space above them. Another option would be to add a flame tube along the area to use as your base. The flames will cover it and you will never see it.)

Apply the Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire plugin with the following settings...

You may need to adjust the Column length depending on your tube.

Okay now things start getting a bit more tricky...

Deselect. (If you used a flame tube you want have too:)

Copy merged and paste into animation shop as a new image. 

 Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Your flame area should be selected again but the flames should be gone.Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 90. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame.

Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times. Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 80. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame.

Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 70. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

 Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 60. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

 Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 50. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

 Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 40. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

 Back in PSP Hit your back button 4 times...Apply Eyecandy 5: Nature Fire again but hit the random seed button. Deselect.On your logo change the opacity to 30. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

So at this point you should have 8 frames in animation shop. Select all your Frames and hit shift + D to duplicate your tag. Select all the frames on the duplicate. Then go to animation, reverse frames. Select the first frame on your duplicate and select all. Back on your original select ONLY frame 8. C/P your duplicate frames after current frame.  Run your animation to make sure it is smooth. You should have a total of 16 frames now.

You can always skip to adding your name at this point if you would prefer but here is the instruction for the marquee text.

Open a new image in animation shop size 650 by 250 transparent background. Go to Effects, Insert text effect. Type your text into the define text box. I used Pixelette font size 10 with these settings...

Now you can always just add this straight to your tag if it works but I wanted it to stand out more. (Make sure all frames are selected in both tags and drag frame 1 to frame 1. If you dont like the position just hit back on both images and do it again :)

Go to edit, Select all, Edit, Copy. Paste into PSP. (You should see all your layers...They are from the bottom so if you want you can rename them. Bottom frame is 1, 2nd frame is 2 etc)

Close all your frames to make it easier to work with.

Open frame 2. (Frame one is blank so that is fine.) Add Eye Candy 4000 Glass...

The Gradient glow of 3...

Then Dropshadow...

Close frame 2. Select and open frame 3. Repeat the above steps. Do this for all 16 frames. (At this point I cropped the image so I could line it up better)

Make sure all your frames are closed except frame 1. Copy Merged and paste into animation shop as a new image.

Close frame 1 and open frame 2. Copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame.

Repeat steps from all 16 frames. View your animation to make sure the marquee still runs smooth.

Select all the frame in your tag and in the marquee. Drag frame one of the marquee to frame 1 of your tag. 

Go to animation, Frame properties and change to 20.

In PSP type out your name with the Rammstein font. Repeat the same steps for the font you used for your marquee but you may want to change tab 2 of your gradient glow down to just a red glow.

Copy just you name and paste as a new image into animation shop. Make sure Propagate paste it Checked and drag to frame 1.

Don't forget to add your copyright and watermark!