~Supplies Needed~

Tube ~ I'm using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis, which you need a licence to use & can get here ~ PSP Tubes Emporium

Scrapkit ~ The Devil's Playground by Broken Dreamz Scraps here ~Taggers Delight

Filters ~ Noise

Fonts ~ FFF Urban, Trinigan FG

Flame Animation by Patricia here ~ Patricia's Blog

~Lets Begin~

New raster layer 600x200, paste paper 2 as new layer, resize 80%

Paste tube as new layer, move to left of canvas, gradient glow #950000, opacity 80%, duplicate mirror, merge down

Paste Elem 40, Red Pentogram, as new layer, resize 50%

Paste Elem 95, Red Smoke, as new layer behind tube

Paste Elem 60, hooded Skull, as new layer, behind Pentogram

Paste Elem 64, Red Rose as new layer, resize 20%, place to Right of canvas at bottom, duplicate, move slightly along to left, drag below first flower, kee doing this till you get to half way along canvas, duplicate, mirror, merge down, drag below tube layer

Paste Elem 14, Skull Crest, as new layer, resize 30%, place in middle of roses

Add drop shadow of choice to layers

Click crop tool, Snap crop rectangel to, in upper right, click merge opaque, now on the left click the tick

Add © & name

Highlight paper layer, select all, modify, Select selection borders, inside 5, new layer & flood fill #950000, add some noise, fat black gradient glow, drop shadow of choice, drag to top of palette

Hide Border, Tubes, Skull Crest & Roses layers, highlight Smoke layer & copy merged, paste into anim Shop

Open Flames animation & select all, you should have 45 frames, now duplicate your tag till you have 45 frames & select all

Now make sure tag is back to layer 1, now click & hold in frame 1 of Flames, drag in to frame 1 of your tag, position at bottom on top of Smoke, view animation, if happy back to PSP

Now hide the layers we just used & unhide the rest, click on one of these layers & copy merged in to Anim shop

Duplicate till you have 45 frames, copy & paste on to tag, view animation & you should see some flames just above Roses. If not just undo & try again

For the avatar just do the same as tag. I used paper, tube Roses & Smoke, size 125x175, please be aware of the sizes your Forums use

Save as PNG!

I hope you enjoyed my Tutorial ♥