Ripple Text

Supplies needed:
PaintShop Pro
Animation Shop
Tube of Choice - (I used a tube by Suzi Sgai)
Fat Font of Choice - (I used Balloon)



It's always easiest to have everything ready to use before starting a project. Select your tube, open your font if you use an outside collection instead of Windows fonts.

Remember to SAVE OFTEN!

Make sure the Material Palette is open and visible. Open it by pressing F6.
Make sure the Layer Palette is open and visible. Open it by pressing F8.

Start with a new image - 500 X 400, 72 dpi, raster layer, transparent

Open your tube,
Shift + D to duplicate it.
Close your original tube.

Use the Eye Dropper tool to select a very light color from your tube.
Select Raster one, the blank layer on the bottom, and floodfill your background with this color.
Add Noise > Gaussian 10%, Monochrome Selected.

Using the color dropper left click on a light color in your tube to select a Foreground color,
then right click on a dark color to select a Background color.

In your material palette - select Gradient for your background.
Foreground-background
Angle 45
Repeats 1
Invert Selected
Style Linear
(I liked this gradient so much that I saved it and named it vetchbronze.)

Add border frame (Optional. The tube I used was sharply cut on the right edge, so needed a border to close the image. This tag works nicely without it if your tube is of a full image.)

Selections > Select All
Selections > Modify > Contract 10
Selections > Invert
Layers > Promote Selection to Layer
Floodfill with the gradient

Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel
Bevel Selection #2
Width 8
Smoothness 0
Depth 3
Ambience 0
Shininess 0
Color White
Angle 315
Intensity 50
Elevation 30

Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow
Vertical and Horizontal 5
Opacity 50
Blur 5
Color Black

Repeat Drop Shadow using vertical and horizontal settings -5

Adding your tube.

Resize your tube so that it fits easily as a background accent to your text.
Height should be no more than 380 pixels.
Copy your tube and paste it as a new layer into your new image.

Use your mover tool to slide your tube to the right side of the canvas.
Double click on the tube layer in the layer palette and rename this layer: Tube

Add a drop shadow to your tube
Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow
Vertical 5
Horizontal 5
Opacity 50
Blur 5
Color Black
Shadow on new layer UNCHECKED

Right Click on the Promoted Layer
Arrange > Move Up

Adjust your tube so that it looks right to you beneath the border layer.


This gives you three layers. The bottom, the tube layer and the promoted frame.
Layers > Merge visible.

Add text:
Close your Foreground Color in the Material Palette so that only the gradient is active.
Select your fat font
Create as Vector
Size 120
Here are the settings of my Text Tool.

Type your text and click Apply
While it is selected, drag it to position it where you want it and pull the corner nodes to adjust the size.

Layers > Convert to Raster Layer
Double click on the new Raster layer and rename this layer: Text

Add a drop shadow to your tube using the same settings but this time,
select Shadow on New Layer.

Hide the text layer by clicking on the eye in the layer palette.
Select the dropshadow layer.
Layers > Merge visible

Unhide and Select the text layer in the layer palette.

Selections > Select All
Selections > Float
Selections > Defloat
Selections > Modify > Feather 2

Layers > Duplicate - repeat twice more so you have 4 text layers.
These layers will already be renamed so you can tell them apart.

Hide the duplicate layers. Select the text layer in the layer palette.

Floodfill again with the gradient.

Hide the text layer.
Select Copy of text in the layer palette.
Open the Gradient properties, by clicking on the gradient in your material palette,
and change the number of repeats to 3.
Floodfill Copy of Text with the new gradient.

Hide Copy of Text and Unhide and Select Copy (2) of text
Gradient Properties > Change the number of repeats to 5
Floodfill Copy (2) of text with the new gradient.

Hide Copy (2) of text and Select Copy (3) of text in the layer palette.
Gradient Properties > Change Repeats to 7
Floodfill Copy (3) of text with the new gradient.

Selections > Select None

Hide Copy (3) Layer
Unhide the Text layer and make sure it is selected.

Edit > Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop.

Right click on the blank desktop and select Paste as New Animation.

Back to Paint Shop Pro.

Hide Text layer
Unhide and select Copy of Text Layer
Edit > Copy Merged

Click back to Animation Shop, right click on the first frame of your animation, and choose
Paste > After Current Frame

Back to PSP
Hide Copy of Text Layer
Unhide and select Copy (2) of text
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop, make sure that the last frame is selected.
Right click.
Paste > After Current Frame

Back to PSP
Hide Copy (2) of Text Layer
Unhide and select Copy (3) of text
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop, make sure that the last frame is selected.
Right click.
Paste > After Current Frame

Stay in Animation Shop
Edit > Select All
Animation > Frame Properties > 20

View > Preview in Web Browser

For now, leave all the settings at Better Image Quality and click thru to see what your animation is going to look like in a web browser. If you are satisfied with the way it looks, close the browser and return to Animation Shop.

Close the Preview window.

Make sure the Frames view is selected.
Animation > Resize Animation
80%
Resample using Smart Size

Preview again in Web Browser

If you are satisfied with the size, return to Animation Shop, close the Preview Screen

Click the Save Icon and save your image.

If you want a simple background tile for this tag, return to PSP and open a new image, 200 X 200, transparent.

Floodfill with the lightest light color that you used for your background floodfill.
Right click on the foreground in the material palette and select it from Recent Materials.

Add Noise 10%
Gausian
Monochrome

Export this tile as a jpg > compression value 25.