Star of the Show was written using PSP X2 and Jasc Animaton Shop

Materials used tube by Amberly Berendson which can be purchased HERE

Eyecandy 6 Gradient Glow (if you do not have this, play with your drop shadows and colors)

Template made by myself which can be found HERE

Font Selfish

Lets get started

1. Pick a tube with a great image or a tube and image that look good together.

2. Open new image 600x600 (we can resize later)

3. Copy rectangle from template and paste onto new image (adjust hue and saturation to match tube)

4. Use your selection tool to click inside. Select, select all, select modify expand by 5

5. Past image or background of image into selection, select none, move to bottom

6.Effects, EyeCandy 6, gradient glow, find glow to match tag, ok

7. Copy stars from template, paste on top of rectangle layer, add bright white glow

8.Copy wordart from template, past on top of star layer and soft gradient glow

9.Copy tube, past on top of background layer/below stars and wordart layer

10. add drop shadow.

11. add copyright and name, save

You can stop here for a beautiful non animated tag or you can take the following steps to add animation.

12. go to background layer (step 5) duplicate twice

13. 1st layer EC6 Textured noise, overlay intense dot noise

2nd layer use the same plug in, click random seed, ok

3rd layer use the same plug in, click random seed, ok

14. Open animation shop

15. Hide 2nd and 3rd layer; with 1st layer only visible, click copy merged, paste into AS as new image

16. repeat above step hiding the layers as needed until all layers are used, paste into AS after current layer

17. Once you have all 3 layers in AS, click Edit, select all

Amination, frame properties, 35; view animation and save.

Disclaimer: I am very new at writing tuts, please remember to have fun and if you have any questions, please email me at paully-1@hotmail.com

For some reason, I cannot get the animation to show when I post...if you can assist with this, please email me. thanks