This tutorial was written by Monti in 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.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

SuperBlade Pro.
A Super Blade Pro Preset of your choice.

MuRa’s Meister Cloud Plug In
You can get it by clicking here

My Zip File
This contains my 5 Frame PSP tube. Click here to download it.

Font of your choice.
I used Starstruck available here.

Tube of your Choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Deacon Black. If you wish to use his work please visit CILM to purchase a license.

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 my 5 frame psp tube and the tube that you wish to use for your Tag in psp.
Press Shift D to make duplicates and close the originals.
Minimize your picture tube for now, as we will be working on the frame tube.
Look on your layer palette and you will see that you have 5 frame layers. Start on Frame 1 and go to selections/select all/ float and apply your SBP preset. Selections/ select none.
Repeat this with the other 4 layers until your frame looks like this (obviously in colours of your choice).


Now go to Layers/Merge all visible.
Go to Layers/New Raster layer. Name this layer background, flood fill with white then go to Layers/ Arrange/ Send to bottom.

Step 2:

Select your Magic Wand and click inside one of the 4 outer frames. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 2.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and position it so the part you want showing in the frame is inside the selection.
Once happy with the placement go to Selections - Invert and press Delete on your keyboard. Move this layer beneath your Frame layer.
Repeat the steps above until all the four outside frames have been filled.


Step 3:

Click on the white Background layer to activate it and add a new Raster layer and add a new layer.
On the layer palette click on your merged frame layer to activate it and then select your magic wand. Hold down your shift key and click once inside all 4 outer frames. Go to Selections/modify expand by 2.
Then click on your blank layer that you just added to activate it.
Go to Effects/Mura's Meister Cloud and use the settings shown below, using colours from your tube. (If you do not have this plugin use a gradient that blends with your tube).


Deselect.
Go back to your merged frame layer and use your magic wand to click inside the four small frame areas where the frames overlap, holding down your shift key as you do.
Add a new Raster layer then go to Selections/modify expand by 2.
Apply Mura's Meister Cloud Plugin again, this time changing the amount to 167.
(If using the gradient apply the same one but then go to colours/adjust brightness and set it to -15).
Go to Selections/select none and then move this layer down on your layer palette to just above the white background layer.

Step 4:
Click on the merged frame layer to activate it.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Now you have a choice depending on what tube you use and what you think looks best.

Choice 1: You can either leave it as the top layer.(See the tag at the top of the tut).
Choice 2: Move this layer down to just below your Merged frame layer.
Choice 3: Move it down further so that it is also underneath the four outer frame tube layers too. Choice 4: Move it all the way down so it is also underneath the four inner frame layers too.
Do what looks best for the tube you are using. See the bottom of the tut for examples.
Go to Effects/3D effects Drop shadow and apply the following drop shadow.

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 83
Blur = 10
Colour = Black

Step 5:
Activate the top layer and select your text tool. Set your stroke and fill to white, font StarStruck, Size 60, Vector and Antialias Checked.
Use your mover tool to move it where you want it then convert to Raster Layer.
Go to Selections - Select All - Float and apply the same SBP preset that you applied for the frames.
Deselect and then apply the same Drop Shadow shown above.
Add your watermark and the artists credits.

Hide the white background layer and crop to size.
Save in psp as a .jpg.
Congratulations. I hope you enjoy using your tag.


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