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Any font you like, I used "Times New Romance" and,
A swinging tube, resized and set to the first angle required
- both are in items to download.

Items needed for this tutorial: Click here to download the items needed in zipped format.

Lets get started :-)

1.  Open a new transparent image, 300 by 300
Add a new raster layer, name it B1
Add another new raster layer, name it N1
Now save this image in PSP format and name it.
Its a good idea to save reqularly so I will just type save from now on to remind you to save your work.

2.  Flood fill layer one with white and go to your layer palette and null this layer.
3.  On you layer palette, make your N1 layer active and on your colour palette set your foreground colour to be HTML# B26A7B and background colour to be HTML # CFA8AD. Set your text tool box to width 2.

4.  Apply your name to the N1 layer and center it towards the top of your image. Save.

5.  Once your name is in place, go to your layer palette and duplicate N1 layer seven times. Rename these duplicated layers in order so when you are finished, layers will be N1 to N8. Now null layers N2 to N8 for now. Then make your B1 layer active. Save.

6.  Open your bunny swinging tube, which has been resized and first angle is set. Go to edit>copy to put your tube on your clipboard and then close this tube.

7.  With your B1 layer active, go to edit>paste as new selection and your bunny tube will show on this layer. With your mover tool, move the tube so that the left swing rope is under your name and positioned to the middle of your name. ( the bunnies will be close to the right edge of your image). Deselect and save.

8.  Now that bunny tube is in position, go to your layer palette and duplicate B1 layer four times. Rename these duplicate layers in order so you have B1 to B5. Null layers B3 to B5. Save.

9.  Layer B1 is the end swing angle so this layer needs no adjustment, so make your B2 layer active. Go to image>rotate and the settings are as follows, rotate direction right, degrees free 20, rotate all layers unchecked and click okay. Now you will see this layer's tube change angle to the bunny on the layer below it. Use your mover tool to move this rotated tube slightly to the left. Visually align the left swing rope to B1's left swing rope so that the top point of the B2's swing rope would sit on B1's swing line. Now null layer B1 and make layer B3 active. Save.

10.  With layer B3 active, go to image>rotate and the settings are as follows, rotate direction right, degrees free 40, rotate all layers unchecked and click okay. Now you will see this layer's tube change angle to the bunny on the layer below it. Use your mover tool to move this rotated tube slightly to the left. Visually align the left swing rope to B2's left swing rope so that the top point of the B3's swing rope would sit on B2's swing line. Now null layer B2 and make layer B4 active. Save.

11.  With layer B4 active, go to image>rotate and the settings are as follows, rotate direction right, degrees free 60, rotate all layers unchecked and click okay. Now you will see this layer's tube change angle to the bunny on the layer below it. Use your mover tool to move this rotated tube slightly to the left. Visually align the left swing rope to B3's left swing rope so that the top point of the B4's swing rope would sit on B3's swing line. Now null layer B3 and make layer B5 active. Save.

12.  With layer B5 active, go to image>rotate and the settings are as follows, rotate direction right, degrees free 80, rotate all layers unchecked and click okay. Now you will see this layer's tube change angle to the bunny on the layer below it. Use your mover tool to move this rotated tube slightly to the left. Visually align the left swing rope to B3's left swing rope so that the top point of the B4's swing rope would sit on B3's swing line. You may have to move the tube to have the lines sit under the name layer however, when you do this the top of the left swing line may appear on top side of font. (see where I have circled this below) If this happens, just use your erase tool and get rid of that little piece.) When you are happy with the placement of the tube, null layer B4 and B5. Save.

13.  If you unnull all your B layers, this is what you now should have. Once you have checked this, null all the layers.

14.  On your layer palette, select layer B2 (which will unnull it) and duplicate this layer and call it B8, then null both these layers.

15.  On your layer palette, select layer B3 (which will unnull it) and duplicate this layer and call it B7, then null both these layers.
16.  On your layer palette, select layer B4 (which will unnull it) and duplicate this layer and call it B6, then null both these layers. Now if you look at your layer palette, this is what you should see.

17.  Now lets rearrange these layers so they are in order from B1 to B8. So click and drag B6 up over B5, B7 moves up to sit on B6, and B8 sits on top of B7. Now lets just make sure we have this in order and layers named correctly unnull all the B layers and watch image as you do. B1 to B5 will make the bunnies swing to the left, then B6 to B8 will have the bunnies swinging back to the right. If all in correct order, null these layers. Save.

18.  Now its time to rearrange both the N and B layers. Match each B# layer with corresponding N# layer and ensure that the B layer is under the N layer it matches. So, B1 and N1 go together, then B2 layer with N2 layer, keep matching them until you have finished at B8 and N8. Your layer palette now looks like this.

19.  Now make layer1 active. (this is your white floodfilled layer) Duplicate this layer seven times and then move each new duplicated layer to sit on top of each N layer finishing at layer N7. Do not add a new layer to layer N8. Null all the layers. Save. This is how your layer palette looks now.

20.  Unnull layers layer1, B1 and N1 and merge visable these 3 layers and rename this merged layer to S1. As you start to merge visable, watch your layers to ensure all swing lines are under the font layer to do any final corrections now. Then null layer S1. Then unnull next three layers duplicate, B2 and N2, merge visable these layers and rename this layer to S2. Repeat this until you have merged each set of layers. When finished you will have 8 layers, S1 to S8. Now unnull all these layers. Save.
Whew, we are finished building this tag and making layers. This is what your layer palette should look like now.

Now we are ready to animate..go to page two to finish off this tutorial.

Go to Page 2 to animate

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