Create a new image 300x300, floodfill black. Paste jukebox tube and resize to fit, I resized mine 85%.
Go to the tube you are going to use and pick a colour from it. Go to the material palette and
find the hue and saturation for the colour- located here-

On the jukebox layer, go to adjust- hue and saturation- colourise and type in the numbers for h and s.
Duplicate this layer twice so there is 3 layers. Now duplicate the black layer so there is 3.
Hide 2 of the jukebox layers and 2 black layers. Change the opacity of the jukebox to 50%.
Merge visible. Repeat this for the other 2 jukeboxes but change the opacity to 65% and 80%.

Now make a new image, 600x600, floodfill white. Copy each of the jukebox layers and paste them onto
the big image. Using the rectangle tool, width 10, foreground the colour you picked from the tube and background null, draw out a 'border' around the edge of the black squares. Convert to raster layer, and apply Eyecandy Glass, settings- ruby-but change the gradient shading to 30 (you can use whatever setting you like, i just chose ruby because the main colour im working with is pink).

Duplicate the frame, and rotate it 45 degrees. Select the inside with the magic wand tool, expand by 1.
Add new layer and drag under the rotated frame. Floodfill in the selection. While it is still selected, apply effects- texture effects, blinds with the following settings, then select none.

Merge frame and blinds layer together. Add a drop shadow, I used 0,0,50,10 black. Go back up to the unrotated frame and add the same dropshadow. Paste your tube as a new layer, resize if neccesary, add a dropshadow of choice, and move to the side a little bit.

Now for your name. I used 'Neon Lights' size 80 in the same colour I picked from the tube before. Rotate left 90 degrees. Apply eyecandy-gradient glow, width 4, medium setting, black. Place to the other side of the square. Add your copyright and crop tag to size, and we're ready to animate.

On your layer palette, x out the two black squares with the 65 and 80% opacity jukeboxes. Copy merged, and paste into animation shop as a new animation. Back to psp, and hide the 50% jukebox layer. Un x the 65% one, copy merged, and paste in animation shop, after current frame. Do the same thing again but with the 80% layer. In animation shop you should have 3 frames, the 50%, 65% then 80%. Highlight the 65% frame, right click and copy. Then click on the third frame (the 80% one) and paste after current frame. On the keyboard press Ctrl-A to select all frames, and then press Alt-Enter, to bring up the frame properties. Change the display time to 30. View animation, and save as GIF. And we're done.

I wrote this tutorial on the 26th September 2007.

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