Sign Your Name Tut (Animated)

Ok so this taggie is a bit special. It started as me playing with a kit for the heck of it but once I saw the wordart I knew what I had to do. My wonderful friend Ralf Straaberg drew this piece and he wrote a beautiful story to go with it. The inspiration for this tag then became the beauty of this tube and story. Again this is his story that I got from Deviantart not mine...

 Her heart dropped to the floor....she turned to him, just before she ran. He looked into her hazel eyes. Never had he seen such a deep and profound hurt before. He heard her sobbing all the way down the hallway. It pierced through his heart and soul.

He loved her.He loved Rose. He loved her more than he'd ever loved anyone else his whole life. He loved her smile, the soft lips, and long hair. He didn't care what others thought. NO....no...they could just go fuck themselves. He regretted being so mean. How could he have done something so cruel to the only one who loved him...loved this bastard for who he was and never questioned about his past.

He ran out to find her. He saw her...ran towards her...and then his heart shattered in pieces. There she was on the ground. The tears still on her cheeks. He wrists cut by two deep and angry cuts and in his hand he held her necklace he'd given her...a silver heart saying: Forever yours.

Beware this is one of those gory tags ;)

Supplies Used:

Rose tube by Ralf Straaberg. Get it at DSI.

Anguished Sampler kit from Gothic Inspirations. Get it from her blog HERE.

My Supplies (Roses and Razorblade). Download HERE

EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow and Glass (Font)

Eyecandy 4000 Drip

Font: Jellyka End_Less Voyage

Start with a new image size 600 by 250. (I know the size is odd but just go with it LOL)

Selection, Select all. C/P Paper 2 into selection. KEEP SELECTED.

C/P Tag into selection. Deselect and add dropshadow.

C/P Your tube. Dropshadow.

C/P Wordart. Resize by 50%. Add Gradient Glow of 3 in White. Dropshadow.

C/P Pretty Blade. Dropshadow and place just under your wordart.

C/P Roses on the left side of the tag. Dropshadow.

C/P Moss. Resize by 40%. Flip and dropshadow. Duplicate. Use your deform tool to position on an angle just inside the roses.

C/P Candle 4. Resize by 40%. Dropshadow. Duplicate. Position just inside each piece of moss.

C/P Standing Stone. Resize by 30%. Dropshadow. Center inside your elements.

C/P Gem. Resize by 20%. Use your deform tool to position to one side of the base of the pillar. Dropshadow. Duplicate and change the layer property to multiply.

C/P Keys. Resize by 20%. Flip. Position over the heart. Dropshadow.

C/P Flower. Resize by 20%. Position just under the pillar and keys. Dropshadow.

Duplicate flower. Resize by 50%. Position under the top of the heart.

Duplicate flower. Adjust, Color Balance, Manual Color Correction. Make sure your source is black and target is dark red.

Duplicate 2 times so you have 3 red flowers. Position so they just peek out from under the pillar.

Add your copyright and Watermark.

If you Don't want to animate skip ahead of this step and add your name. The tag will look like this....

To Animate:

Select the tag layer. Using you pen tool Straight line set to about 5 draw a thin red line at the top of your tag stretching all the way across.

Now move this line so it is just off the top of you tag (Meaning you don't see it.)

Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3.

on the 1st line apply Eyecandy 4000 Drip with these settings...

Select Line 2 .Repeat the effect but hit the random seed button.

Select Line 3 .Repeat the effect but hit the random seed button.

Close layers 2 & 3.

Copy merged. Paste into animation shop as a new animation.

Back in PSP close line 1 and open line 2. Copy Merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

Back in PSP close line 2 and open line 3. Copy Merged and paste into animation shop after current frame. 

Go to edit and make sure Propagate paste is checked.

Click frame 1.  Edit, Select all. 

Animation, Frame Properties to 40.

Back in PSP type out your name.

Add Eyecandy 4000 Glass....

Then Gradient glow....

Go to edit, Copy.

Paste into animation shop as a new image. Drag to frame one and Viola!

(If you name blinks just hit undo 2 times on your name and the tag. Then check propagate paste and redrag your name to the tag :P)

Thanks so much for reading my tut :P