Not your average chick

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
Animation Shop
1 to 3 tubes of choice (depending on their width), mine is by Ismael Rac and used with a purchased license.
Font of choice, mine is GradoGradooNF
Dingfont, I used Swish Buttons for the shape
Gradient Presets, find some from Elvensword and from Blackheartedwolf, he has 3 links to more sets.
Brushes of choice, if you don't have any/many, have a look at agibrushes and browse the grunge brushes at DA.
Filters DSB Flux, AAA Frames/FotoFrame and Greg's Factory Output Filters Vol 1.
You should have some working knowledge of PSP & AS.

Open a blank canvas, 600x500px and floodfill with a light colour from your tube.
Activate your text tool and find swish buttons, set your background colour to a gradient which suits your tube, foreground to nil, create as vector. I set my gradient to linear, angle 135, repeats 2, invert checked. With text size 72 type in a lower case n, make a carriage return and type in another, repeat until you have 4 in all. Place to the left of your canvas and convert to raster layer. Duplicate the shapes and mirror them. Hide your background layer and merge the two shapes visible.

Unhide your backgroundlayer again. Make the layer you just merged active and give it a dropshadow, of V -5, H -5, opacity 57, blur 6.93, black. Hide all other layers and merge these two visible. Now, take your text tool again, change the gradients settings to angle 45 and unchecked the invert. Create as vector, place next to your left row, convert to rater layer, duplicate mirror and merge these two, add a dropshadow if you like. Change the opacity to 36. I then played with some filters. I used dsb flux bubbles with the default settings. And Greg's Factory Output Filters Vol 1, BlowOut, also the default setting. Have some fun with yours.

Add a new raster layer, and pick two colours that compliment your tubes. Load your brushes. The right click will give you the background colour, the left click will give you your foreground colour. Click all over with different brushes. When you're happy, hide the layer with outer swirly shapes, rename it shape. Merge all other layers visible and move them to the bottom.

Now you can add your tubes, resize and place as you desire. Use a blurry dropshadow. Hide all other layers amd merge your tubes visible. You should now have 3 layers, resize if you wish, all layers checked. Make the background layer active and apply AAA Frames/FotoFrame at default, just change the width, I used 10.

Add legible credits to the artist and yourself. Choose a cool chunky font and write out your name, I used a dark colour for the stroke set to 3 and the gradient for the fill. Give it a dropshadow and set the blend mode to Luminance(L) and duplicate this layer.

Now it's time to animate, launch AS.
In PSP, apply dsb flux bright noise to the uppermost name layer and to the shapes layer. I set it to 30 and mix. Now right click, copy merged and paste as a New Animation in AS. Go back to PSP, undo thrice (shapes, layer selection and name) and apply the bright noise again. You change the seed by just clicking on the word mix. Apply again also to the shapes layer. Copy merged and paste in AS by right clicking the new animation and pasting after current frame. Repeat all this a final time, so you end up with 3 frames in AS. I left the animation speed for mine at default. If you want to adjust yours go to edit/select all and then animation/frame properties and change the number. The higher the number the slower the animation. Play it, like it, save it ;o)

My second version uses the art of ElectronicRainbow and is used with permission, ER has not revoked previous permissions, she is just not giving out new ones.
This is my tut example from 2006, when I first started and I made things unnecessarily complicated lol. I also changed a few settings and stuff.
So this is (hopefully) the new and improved version.

This tutorial was created August 26, 2006, improved upon 26th August 2010 (ommigawd, look at the date!! Freaky!!!) and is the sole property of ooh...babelicious. Similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental. Do not copy this or any of my tutorials, or any part of my tutorials, to another site unless you have express permission from me to do so. If you want to share, send the URL, do not direct link or offer on your site. Give credit where credit is due. Do not script this tutorial and offer to others.