Yuvirae Forum Set - No Scrap

 

This tutorial was written by Twilight on 8/3/12. Any similarities to any other tutorials is purely coincidental.  

Supplies Needed:

Tube: I used the awesome art of Yuvirae. Please do not use with out a license! Get it at ArtisticallyInclinedLicensing

PLUGINS:

Muras Meister - Copies

VM Distortion - Circulator II

Open a new image 600 x 250

Copy/Paste your tube as a new layer

Duplicate

On the Orginal,

Effects - Muras Meister - Copies - Wallpaper (rotate) with the default settings

Duplicate Copies layer

On the top copies layer,

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur - Default Settings

Set the blend mode to Screen

On the bottom copies layer,

Effects - VM Distortion - Circulator II

Ring Width: 6

Y-Start: 94

Rotation: 195

Mode: 234

Duplicate your tube again, twice

Move the two bottom tubes, one to the left and one to the right

Drag them below your radial blur layer

Set the Opacity to about 60

Add a small drop shadow to your tube

Select your pen tool

Line Style: Dashed

Width: 2

Foreground color: A color from your tube

Background: null

Holding down your Shift key, draw out a few lines ( I did mine randomly)

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise

-Random

-100%

-Monochrome Checked

Drag this layer under your tube layer

New raster layer above tube layer

Flood fill with color or gradient that matches your tube

Selections - Select All

Selections - Modify - Contract - 4

Hit delete

Deselect

Add Noise (same settings as above)

I added a drop shadow to mine

Add your name and copyright info.

To make the avatar, I just opened a new image 150 x 180

I copy merged my forum tag and pasted it as new layer on the new image,

And added the border

Don't forget to add your license info to your avatar!