Rocker Chick

Written by Vilisni on February 27, 2008 using Photoshop CS2 and Image Ready CS2.
It is my own creation - any similarities to another tutorial is purely coincidental.
Some knowledge of Photoshop CS2 and Imageready CS2 is required.



Supplies:

Tube of Choice
I used the awesome artwork of Popeye Wong - www.popeyewong.com

Mask of Choice
Click the link for the mask I used - Here

Font of choice
I used Brush Script MT

Mura's Meister - Copies

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Brushed Metal

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Alright! Let's get started!

Open new canvas - 500 x 500 transparent

Flood fill white.

Drag over your tube of choice and duplicate once.

Hide tube copy layer.

Select remaining tube layer and apply Mura's Meister - Copies with the following settings



Drag over your mask of choice and resize if needed.

Apply layer mask by going Channel tab - load channel as selection button at the bottom

Go back to the Layers tab - make sure your copies layer is selected and press the apply layer mask button at the bottom of the window

Should have something like this if you used the provided mask:



Select your Custome Shape Tool and choose a preset shape of choice

I used the Flower 2 preset shape.

Create a new layer and place shape in desired size.

Make sure you can still a little of you copies layer under it

Refer to above tag for reference.

Rasterize layer

Duplicate shape layer and hide the copy for now

Apply Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Brushed Metal to shape layer.

Use the Factory Settings for Circular Steel

Click the Basic tab and change the color to a bright color from your tube

Should have something like this:



Select your Custom Shape Tool again.

Create a new layer.

Choose a different preset shape and place is within the first one.

I used the Seal preset shape.

Rasterize layer

Apply Brushed Metal - Factory Setting - Circular Steel

Apply an Inner Shadow with the following settings:

Distance - 3 px
Choke - 13 %
Size - 4 px

Press OK

Should have something that looks like this:



Unhide your preset shape copy and move it below your second shape layer

Apply a drop shadow of choice and set the layer to Multiply.

Create a new layer and move it inbetween the layer you just did and the one with the colored circular steel applied to it.

Your layers should look like this:



Select your paint brush tool.

Select the Soft Round 100 Pixels brush.

Draw a white line across the layer you created so that it extends beyond the eges. (Hold your shift key to get it straight)

Press Ctrl + T for your free transform tool and rotate the line to -40

Move the line so that it's at the bottom right corner of your canvas.

Change the Opacity to 90%

Select your copies layer and press Ctrl + E to merge down with teh white canvas underneath.

Duplicate layer.

Select your shape 1 layer and using your magic wand - select the area around the shape.

Right click and click the select inverse option.

Go back to the background copy layer and press delete.

Move it up under your layer that you set to Multiply and above your line layer.

Your layers should look like this:



Unhide your tube copy and duplicate.

Hide the copy and select the original.

Press Ctrl + T to open your free transform tool.

Move and resize tube so that the face (or desired part of the tube) is within the middle shape.

See tag for reference.

Highlight the second shape layer and using the magic wand tool – select the surrounding area

Right click and choose the select inverse option.

Go back to your tube layer and right click selecting layer via cut

Set layer style to Overlay

Delete the tube layer you just cut from.

Should look something like this.



Unhide tube and place where desired – add drop shadow of choice.

Add your name with a stroke and a drop shadow of choice.

Add a saying of choice.

(Optional: You can add a stroke or outer glow if you want to your saying)

See tag for reference.

Add copyright.


Now Let’s Animate!

Click the Edit In Imageready button at the bottom of the tool bar.

Create a new frame in the animation bar.

Select the line layer.

Select the move tool.

Move the line to the upper left hand corner – make sure you can’t see any on the big shape

Go back to the first frame and select the tween option from the animation menu



Enter these values:



You should have 12 frames.

Select all frames and set the delay to 0.12 sec (click the other… option and enter the value)

Check you animation and adjust as you see fit.

Use these values in your optimize window.



Click File – Save Optimized As…

Give it a name and location that easy to find and you’re done!

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Copyright Vilishni 2008