I used Suzanne Woolcott's Gorjuss tube you can get them HERE and AMI license.

I used part of a scrapbooking set also...Mechelle Conrads ' Berry Christmas' you can find it HERE.

You can use any tube or scrapping elements you would like to.

In the supplies ZIP is the dot brush I made for this tutorial.

 1. Start off by opening the tube your going to use...Do shift + D to duplicate your tube window.. close the original..

2. Go to Image/ Canvas Size and resize your tube window to 500 x 500.

3. Add a new layer and drag below the tube layer.. right click on this layer on the layer palette and RENAME it background... Rename your tube layer also.. to Girl or what ever it is.. DUPLICATE your tube layer now.

4. X out or hide the original tube layer, and click on the duplicate layer of tube. Use your selection tool  rectangle  Feather 0 and make a LONG *from top to bottom* selection of the tube.. as thin as you can make it.. the trick is to get it just one or two pixels wide.. it will look like nothing but a dotted line when done.. I will show you WHY you have to make it as thin as possible.. later.

5. After you make the selection like shown above.. you go to selections /INVERT and CUT or Delete on keyboard.. your selection should look like the one below.

6. Deformation tool   click on the center node and pull out to the left and do same to the right.

Below shown is the pulling the nodes out and how it looks. Pull it out a little way PAST the edges of the canvas.. no lil crack there.. or it wont do right.

7. Go to Effects/ Distortion effects/ Polar Coordinates, use the settings below.

The sample below shows if you made your selection too wide... it will not line up and be seamless that's why its important to select only one or two pixels wide.. if you don't pull the nodes past the edges on the side also it will have a gap in the ring.

This is how your ring should look.. you MIGHT have to RESIZE it about 65% though.. don't want it too big

8. Apply Eye Candy 4000 Glass effect on it using these settings below.

Lighting for EC 4000 glass

9. Apply a 3D shadow to the Ring using these settings below

10. FRAME....Add a new raster layer on top of all the other layers... fill with a darker coordinating color.. Selections/ select all / Float.. then go to Selections/Modify/ Contract 4 pixels... Delete on keyboard.. while its selected fill with white.. go to Selections/ modify/ contract  2 pixels.. Delete on keyboard.. this is your frame if you want one.. apply a 3D shadow on it.. like below.

11. Duplicate the Ring layer 2 times so you have 3 Rings, the original ring, leave same size.. on the next one up.. Resize to 70%  on the top duplicated Ring layer.. Resize 45%,  position them like you want them and merge the three ring layers.. NONE of the other layers. Don't forget to name all your layers it makes is so much better... After you have merged the 3 ring layers.. DUPLICATE the new merged ring layer 2 times.. so you have 3 of those layers.... Rename them Ring 1, 2 and 3.  On each of the Ring layers apply Xenofex 2 * Constellation* plugin effect on them... using the settings below on the first one.. then with each other.. keep same settings just click the random seed button once.

12. If you want you can add other elements to your project.. I put a Christmas ornament on mine... the layer palette below shows how mine looked.. I duplicated the ornament..2 times too so I would have 3 layers of it.. to apply the Xenofex 2 on it.  When your all done with adding your elements and such... hide 2 of the Xenofex 2 layers of the Ring.. and if you put it on anything else.. like I did.. I hid two of the bulb layers.. then you right click on the top of the canvas and COPY MERGED.. You can now apply the brush I included in the supplies zip now.. to the rings.. its matter of choice.

13. Then go to your Animation shop and right click on the desk top and paste as a New Animation.

14. Go back to your PSP and hide the Ring layer you had showing and UNHIDE one of the other ones... same with another element layer if you have it.. click on top of window.. COPY MERGE...

15. Then back to animation shop.. and right click on your new animation there and paste/ after current frame.

16. Do this.. with the last of the Xenofex layers... like you did with the other two.. unhide the last one... and hide the one that WAS showing... COPY MERGE.. then in AS right click and Paste after current frame.

SAVE AS a GIF.. your done.. hope you enjoyed this tutorial..

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