Holly

Open a new image

Set your foreground to the gold gradient.

Set your background to #c00000

Click on your text tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Use the nodes (little boxes on the lines of the vector box) to stretch the text.

Go to the layer palette, right click on the vector and click on Convert to Raster Layer.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot.

Open the tube...

click on the copy icon, or go to Edit > Copy. Click on your new canvas and go to Edit > Paste As New Layer

Move the holly layer below the text layer.

use the mover tool to position the holly where you want it.

Flood fill raster 1 with white

Duplicate all layers twice so you have 3 layers of each.

Click on the bottom holly layer to select it.

Go to Adjust > Noise > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the next holly layer to select it.

Add noise

Click on the top holly layer to select it.

Add noise.

Arrange the layers as in the screenshot. Turn off the visibility of the top 6 layers.

Right click on the bottom layer and go to Merge > Merge Visible. Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and click on the next layer above.

Right click and merge visible. Turn off the newly merged layer and click on the next layer above.

Merge visible and turn on all the layers.

Click on the crop tool. Move the crop lines so they surround your sig.

Click on the tick to perform the crop.

Save it as a psp file

Open it in Animation Shop and save as a .gif

That's it...you're done :o)

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