Hot In Here

What you will need -

Paint Shop Pro (I used v9)
Animation Shop
Toadies (what are you)
Eye Candy 4000 (fire and gradient glow)
Tube of choice - I used one from Michael Landefeld, available from CILM
Embellishments of choice - I used a divider

Let's begin.

New image 600x600, floodfill white. Using the rectangle tool with black background in the material palette and no line width, draw out a rectangle a bit smaller than you'd like the finished tag to be. Convert to raster layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize and sharpen if necessary, so that it fits neatly in the rectangle. X that out for now. Using the pen tool, line style solid, width 2, colour black, draw a line at the bottom of the rectangle. Convert to raster layer and position it in the layer palette above the big rectangle and below the tube. Duplicate layer twice so there are 3. Apply filters - Eyecandy 4000 - Fire with the following settings -

Apply the fire to the other 2 line layers but changing the random seed for each of them. Highlight the big rectangle layer on the layer palette and using the magic wand tool and click anywhere on the white background. Click on each of the fire layers and hit the delete key on the keyboard. Select none.

Back to the rectangle tool - foreground black, background null, line style solid, width 20, draw out a rectangle the same size as the original rectangle. Convert to raster layer.

Bring this layer right to the top of the layer palette. Apply Eyecandy Gradient Glow - click on settings and choose 'blazing sun'. Change the width to 7 and check the box that says 'draw only outside selection'.

Duplicate this frame layer and drag it right down in the layer palette so it is above the white background. Apply plugins - Toadies - What Are You? set the overdose to 12.

Now for the text. I used 'subway' size 12, colour white, and wrote 'its getting hot in here', but you can use whatever and type whatever would suit. Position up the top in the border. Convert to raster layer.

For the name down the bottom - open a new image 150x150, flood fill white. Going back to the original tag, pick a colour from the flames using the eye dropper tool (I used #d38400). Back to the little image, go Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds with the following settings -

Back to main image now. Go to material palette, for the background go into pattern and find the little image we just made. Foreground null. Using the same font just a lot bigger, type your name. I used size 60. Convert to raster layer and position it down the bottom. Go to gradient glow again, use these settings -

After that, use the same settings we used on the frame - Gradient Glow - blazing sun, size 7, draw outside checked.

If you want to add something to the border do it now. I used a divider but you can use whatever. Drag these below your name in the layer palette.

Add copyright and crop your tag. X out the 2 bottom flame layers in the layer palate. Copy merged, then paste into Ani Shop. Back to PSP - x out the top flames, un-x the second ones, copy merged, paste in Ani Shop, after current frame. X out the second one, un-x the last one, copy merged and paste after current frame back in Ani Shop.

Make sure one of the 3 frames is highlighted, hit Ctrl-A on the keyboard to highlight all of them, then press Alt-Enter to bring up the frame properties. Change the speed to 50.
View - animation - then save as.

And we're done.

I wrote this Tutorial on 24 August 2007.