1) In your color pallet for the foreground and stroke choose your cmv_gold gradient. In the background and fill section choose your pink2 pattern.
2) select your text tool with these settings. Create as vector - black arrow pointing right and the red arrow pointing down. size 60 - stroke 2.0 - You may use a font of your choice or you can use Engrossing Script which I have included.. you will need to adjust the text to fit in the space as shown on the finished tag.
3) Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - V (-1) H (1) opacity 50 blur 4. Repeat drop shadow changing V (1) H (-1).
4) Duplicate your test layer two times. Place your highlight on the bottom layer and close out all but the bottom text layer and the bottom merged layer. Layers - Merge - merge visible.
5) close out the bottom layer and place the highlight on the next layer up closing out all but the merged layer and the text layer that you are merging. Layers - merge - merge visible.
6) close out this layer and with your highlight on the next layer up and only the two top layers active - Layers - merge - merge visible.
7) UN x all layers and - files - save as - click on the options tab and select 'save as psp7 compatible. Give the image a name and save to a folder of your choice.
Just the animation left!
1) open animation shop and open the image you just saved.
2) Edit - select all. Animation - frame properties - set to 20. OK
You can resize your image now if you wish! To maintain the image clarity do not resize any more than 85%.
Place your arrow on the top of the animation and right click - view animation. If you are satisfied with the speed of the lights you may save as a gif with a name of your choice. You can also play around with the frame properties to see if you find a speed you like better!! It's always personal preference that makes a tag unique!!
I generally save all my gifs in animation shop with the defautl settings. If you prefer to save differently the image quality may suffer.
YOU ARE DONE!!!
I hope you had fun with this tutorial. There will be more tutorials in which you will make and save your own selections rather than load from an alpha.
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