Rac Bitches Rule

RAC BITCHES RULE

This tutorial was written by me on February 23, 2012. Any resemblance to any other tutorial or tag is pure coincidence. Please do not claim my work as your own and certainly do not post this or any of my tutorials to any website, blog or forum without permission from me. My email is tresetags@gmail.com or you can find me on Facebook with the link on the right side of this page. This tutorial, as with any of my tutorials, was written with the assumption that you have a working knowledge of PSP and it's components. It was written for PSP 9, but should be compatible with most versions.

What you will need to accomplish this tutorial is listed below:

Scrap kit by Foxy's Designz - Bitch Squad - you can buy HERE

(Thanks Foxy...awesome kit)

Ismael Rac tube TRESE - can be purchased HERE along with his other tubes....support the arts and do not use his tubes without a license.

Plugins: Eye Candy 4000, dsb flux and Eye Candy 5/Impact, Screenworks by Cybia ( You can download Cybia plugins free HERE) and finally Xero.

Font: Channel found HERE

Brushes: Some sort of "Urban" or "City" brushes. You can find tons of great brushes HERE, but these are Photoshop brushes and you will need some way to convert them to .png to put into PSP. There are a couple of programs available, personally I have used abr viewer 2.0 and never had problems with it. You can download it HERE.

Let's get started......

It's always a good idea to read completely through a tutorial before you attempt to do them so you know what to expect and know how to get organized.

You may want to name your layers so as not to get confused and frustrated as we will have quite a few layers with this tutorial.

For any of the plugins we use only change the settings I recommend and leave the rest on default settings.

Open PSP, duh...open all your elements from Foxy's rad kit into PSP...you can use my image as a reference for which elements I used. Open Rac's freakin amazing tube as well and choose the colors in the layers you wish to use. You can use any color you want. As you can see, I chose the red and simply changed the color of the large circle to red by going up to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colorize.

Once you have changed the circle to your desired color, copy and paste your tube into a 750x750 white new image. Then copy and paste your tube on top of that layer. Go back to your circle layer and use your Raster Deform Tool to resize your circle. I have found this tool to be one of my most favorite tools in PSP, it doesn't distort your tube or elements when you resize them using it.

Next you will click on your background layer and draw a large black circle using your preset elipse tool set to circle. Convert it to raster layer and then copy and paste the close up Rac tube above this large black circle. Again, use your Raster Deform Tool to resize your tube to fit nicely inside the circle. Select the large black circle layer again and click on it with our magic wand. Then go up to Selections/Invert...select the close up tube layer and hit delete to erase the outer portions of the tube outside your circle. Then go to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colorize. Colorize your tube to match the colors you've chosen for your tag. I used Hue 210 and Saturation 163. Now go to Effects/Plugins/Xero/Radiance and use these settings:

Strangeness...128

Charm...50

Truth...55

Beauty...131

On this same layer go to Effects/Plugins/Screenworks/Dot Screen.

Now this part can get a little tricky, but it's not difficult at all. Using your Rectangle Tool, draw two wide but thin rectangles across the top of the large colored circle and offset them...again, use my image as a reference. Merge them together and duplicate then drag the duplicated layer beneath the large colored circle. Using your eraser tool delete the right side of the top rectangle to expose the large colored circle and do the same on the left side but erase the bottom rectangle to expose the large colored circle. See, not so hard.

Our next step is to select the large colored circle layer add a slight drop shadow, duplicate it three times, hide the two top layers and select the original large colored circle layer in your layer palette because you do not want to move any of these layers at all. Go to Effects/Plugins/dsb flux/Spiderweb and use the following settings:

Rays....3

Rings....5

Merge...50

Hide the original layer, select the middle duplicated layer and unhide it. Go back to the same plugin and use these settings:

Rays....3

Rings....7

Merge...50

Hide this layer and select the top duplicated layer and unhide it. Go back to the same plugin and use these settings:

Rays...3

Rings...10

Merge...50

BE SURE YOU DO NOT MOVE THESE LARGE COLORED CIRCLE LAYERS.

Copy and paste all your elements into your working image. Use the Raster Deform Tool to resize to desired sizes. (Told you I love this tool) Add slight drop shadows to each. And yet again you can use my image for reference for placement. On the hearts and the Rac tube you're going to add a slight Corona to add more coloring to your tag. For each layer go up to Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Corona and use these settings:

Width....5.0

Flare size..14.0

Stretch....100

Waver...23

Blur...0

Overall Opacity.....51

Color will be your chosen color for your tag, I used dc0ed5. On your main tube use the same Xero settings as above.

We're getting close, just a few more steps. Now you will select your background layer and add another raster layer and name it Brushes. Have fun with brushes here. You can use a city scene like I used or something else altogether. I love brushes:-)

For your name use the same color you chose for your tag to be. Be sure your anti-alias is set to sharp. Go to Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Gradient Glow and use these settings:

Basic tab:

Width...3

Soft Corners...100

Opacity...100

Check draw outside selection and color is black.

Color tab:

Black Halo

Color is black and Opacity is 100.

Then go back to Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000 Corona and use these settings:

Glow Width...7.88

Flare...14.0

Stretch...100

Waver...23

Blur...3

Opacity...72

and check draw outside selection only.

Add your copyright taking care to make sure it's legible.

Now is the fun part...Animation

Open Animation Shop

Go back to the large colored circle layers...be sure the original bottom layer is open and the other two are hidden. While holding down Shift + Control, hit C (to copy)...go over to Animation Shop and hit Control + v (to paste). Back to PSP, hide the original bottom layer, unhide the middle layer of the large colored circle and do as before...Shift + Control and hit C. Back over to Animation Shop and this time while holding down Shift + Control, hit L (to paste after current frame.) Go back to PSP and repeat for the top layer. You should now have three layers in Animation Shop. Resize to desired size save as a .gif and you're done.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and, hopefully, learned something from it. I appreciate any feedback and I love to see the results from my tuts. Thank you for trying this and please, if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Love and Blessing, Trese