This tutorial was written by Monti on December 8th 2004. It's concept is copyrighted to me. 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.

I am using the art of Michael Landefeld. If you wish to use his work please visit CILM to purchase a license.

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

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

DSB Flux
 You can get it by clicking here.
If you don't have DSB Flux I have given instructions for a similar effect using PSP noise.

A main tube of your choice

A font of your choice.
I used Saginaw

Accent Tubes.
I used a black Rose, use one of your choice and colourize to suit.
I also used some bubble tubes, you can find some here if you don't have any.
I also used some butterflies by Rainbow Coffi. You can find her tubes at PSP-Playground.



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 white background.
Copy and paste your tube a as new layer on the background, go to Toadies/ Plain Mosiac and use the settings below


Then go to Colours/Colourize and use the settings shown below


Apply DSB Flux Bright Noise at 25 as shown below OR use psp noise at 25 uniform.


OR


Step 2:

Go back to the tube and resize by 70 %, Bicubic resample and copy and paste as a new layer.
Position her where you want.
Add a drop shadow using the settings shown below.

Vertical = -4
Horizontal = -4
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Activate your black rose tube and copy and paste it as a new layer on your image, position it near her head where you think it looks best and apply the same drop shadow , then go to layers arrange, move down so it is beneath the girl layer.
Click on the girl layer so the top layer is active and then go back to your black rose tube and resize it by 60 %. Copy and paste as a new layer, position it where you think it looks best. Duplicate this layer and go to image mirror.
Position to your liking. Add the same drop shadow we used earlier to both these layers.
Go back to your black rose tube and resize it by 85%, copy and paste it as a new layer on your image, duplicate, mirror and position until you have them where you want them ( you may use my image as an example) then add the same drop shadow to them.

Step 3:

The next part lets you get creative. I have enclosed black and red butterfly tubes and bubble tubes, copy and paste them as new layers and position them where you like, apply the same drop shadow we have used throughout to each layer.

Step 4:

Activate your text tool and set your foreground to black and your background to a red from the Toadies background layer.
I used #973939. Use font Saginaw bold, Size 72, Vector and Antialias checked.
Apply your text and then convert to a raster layer.
DO NOT ADD YOUR DROP SHADOW YET.
Position your text where you want it.
On a new raster layer add your watermark and the artists credits.

Step 5:

Click on your name (text layer) to activate it and in the layer palette duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 name layers.
On your 3rd image go to effects DSB Flux Bright Noise size 25, click your mix button 3 times. (OR apply noise uniform at 30%). Apply the same drop shadow we used on the other layers.
On your 2nd image go to effects DSB Flux Bright Noise size 25, click your mix button 2 times. (OR apply noise uniform at 30%). Apply the same drop shadow we used on the other layers.
On your 1st image go to effects DSB Flux Bright Noise size 25, click your mix button 1 time. (OR apply noise uniform at 30%). Apply the same drop shadow we used on the other layers.

Step 6:

Hide your white background layer and crop to size.
Unhide the white background and hide the top 2 text layers.
Open Animation Shop.
In PSP copy merged and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.
Back in PSP Hide the bottom text layer and unhide the middle text layer.
Copy merged and go back to Animation Shop.
Right click the image in there and choose paste after current frame.
Back in PSP Hide the middle text layer and unhide the top text layer.
Copy merged and go back to Animation Shop.
Right click the image in there and choose paste after current frame.

Save your image as a .gif file.

Congratulations, you now have your finished Tag.




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