Using tubes to make a tag

Using Tubes to make a Tag

This tutorial was written by me on March 10th, 2008 and any

resemblance to other tutorials is purely coincidental.

You may use this tutorial for personal use only. Do not

distribute in other groups, post on a website or send

in email without express permission of me,

Shelley Marlow.

This is done in PSP XI but could probably be done

in other versions.

Please DO NOT script my tutorial.

For this tutorial you will need:

PSP XI or any other version. You can download a demo here.

Supplies :- which include an image which is © to sxc.hu - you may visit them here

a frame (if this belongs to you please contact me so that i may give

proper credit.)

a swirl (if this belongs to you please contact me so that i may give

proper credit.)

sky tube which is © Rainbow Coffi - you may visit them here

You can pick up the supplies here

Font - University Roman LET which you can get here

OK…ready? Let's get started! Please be sure to save often.

1. Open all four tubes in the supplies folder on to your area

2. Open a new image 500 x 500 transparent image

Flood fill with white

3. Maximise your V~Sky, Go to Edit/Copy

Back to your working image and Edit/Paste as a new layer

(Do not worry that the image is bigger than our working area, we want to leave it as it is

DO NOT RESIZE)

You may now close down V~Sky tube as we no longer require it.

4. Maximise LJD.Spring Flurry Frame.

Go to Edit/Copy

Back to your working image and Edit/Paste as a new layer

Using your mover tool move down a little to just above the white section

at the bottom of your picture like this:-

Go to Effects/3d Effects/Drop Shadow and use the following settings:-

You may now close the LJD.Spring Flurry Frame as we no longer require it

5. Maximise blue-power-mass.

Go to Edit/Copy

Back to your working image and Edit/Paste as a new layer

Layers/Arrange/Move Down (this will now move this mass underneath

the frame layer)

Using your Pick Tool (other versions will use Deformation tool)

Resize the mass about the same size as the frame. It should look

something like this:-

Go to Effects/Texture Effects/Mosiac-Antique

and use the following settings:-

In your layer pallette, make sure we are on the blue mass layer and reduce the opacity to about 40

You may now close the blue-power-mass as we no longer require it

6. In your layer pallette make sure we are on the top layer

Maximise bluejay-01. Go to Windows/Duplicate

Close the original and work on the duplicated copy

Go to Image/Resize and use the following settings:-

Go to Edit/copy

Back to our working image and Edit/Paste as a new layer

Using the move tool , move your bird into a position you like

on your frame or see my main picture above.

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow

use the same settings as we used on the frame

You may now close your duplicated copy of the bluejay-01 as we

no longer require it

7. Select your text tool.

Make your background colour #5d89e4

Turn your foreground colour off or null

use the following settings:-

In your layer pallette right click on your text layer and convert to raster layer

Go to Effects/3D effects/Inner Bevel

Go to effects/3d effects/Drop shadow

8. Select your crop tool and crop off the excess so you should be left with this

9. Go to Image/Add borders and add a 10 pixel border - border colour #5d89e4

Using your magic wand select the border

Effects/3d Effects/Inner Bevel

Use the same setings as earlier

Effects/3d effects/Drop Shadow and use the following settings

Make sure you put your watermark on your work

Save as jpg. You are all done!!!

We have now made a tag using tubes we already have on our computer.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

If you have any comments or questions, please email me here.