This tutorial was written by Monti on January 2nd, 2004. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

PLEASE NOTE:
None of my tutorials or Scrap Kits are allowed to be used for tags being bought by My PSP Tubes or for any other form of monetary gain.
This goes against the artists TOU that I use for my tuts and against my TOU.

The image used in this tutorial is ©James Courtney. If using his work please make sure you add ©James Courtney www.nakedcomix.com

This was written for psp 7 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need
Paint Shop Pro

SuperBlade Pro.
 You will need the m-coconut ice preset which you can find here.

Xenofex1.0
If you don't have Xenofex you can still do this tutorial, just use your eraser brush to create a distressed look on your rectangle.

Font of your choice.
I used Horny Devils.

Main tube of your choice as well as accent tubes.
Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.


Step 1:

Open a new image 500x500.
Set your foreground to a darker colour from your tube and your background colour to a lighter shade of the same colour.
Click on your preset shapes icon and set it to Rectangle, Line width 3 making sure Antialias and Vector are checked.
Draw a rectangle starting at 80,80 drawing out to 415,175 then convert to raster layer.


Now apply Xenofex using the settings shown below, if you don't have Xenofex use your eraser tool to erase some of the edges to create a distressed look.


Step 2:

On your layer palette right click Layer2 (your rectangle layer) and duplicate.
Do this twice so you have 3 rectangle layers.
Then move them under each other so your image looks like this.

When you have them where you want them X out layer 1 and merge all visible. Unhide layer 1 again. Rename your merged layer Boxes.

Step 3:

Choose your preset shapes again and find your star shape Vector and Antialias checked, Line width 3 and draw a star to the size shown.

Convert to raster layer and rename star.
Duplicate this layer and resize it by 80% making sure All Layers is unchecked and the resize type is set to Bicubic.
Move this layer up and to the left of the first star.
Repeat duplicate and resize and keep moving them until you have 9 stars arranged like mine.
(Yours will only be on one side at this point).

Hide Layer 1 and your Box layer and merge all visible, rename stars and unhide the other layers.
Duplicate your star layer and go to Image/Mirror.
It should now look like the one above. Hide Layer 1 and Box layer again and merge the star layers visible.

Step 4:
Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer on your background.
Open your accent tubes in psp and colourize them to contrast with your background.
Copy and paste them as a new layer onto the image. Position them similar to mine depending on what you used.
(you may need to hide your tube layer to see it before moving it). Duplicate and mirror. Your image should now look like this.


Step 5:
Now we are going to add the drop shadows.
Click on your tube layer to activate it and use the settings shown below for your drop shadow. (the colour will be a darker one from your tube).

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 29.6
Apply the same drop shadow to each accent tube layer and then merge all visible.

Step 6:
Choose your font ( I used horny devil BV).
Set your foreground to the darker colour of your stars and the background to a gradient of your choice. Angle 0, Repeats 3.
Activate your text tool, Size 72, Bold, Vector and Antialias checked. Click ok.
Move your text down and stretch it out to fit, then convert to raster layer.
Selections, select all float and apply the Super Blade Pro m-coconut ice preset. Deselect.
Apply the following drop shadow using the same colour you used before.
Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 2.5

Step 7:

Add your watermark and merge all visible.
Edit. copy and paste as new image. this will remove any excess space around the image.
Layers merge all flatten,resize if you wish and save your finished tag.







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