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

My Symbol
Download *Here*. Open in PSP.

Eye Candy 4000 - Optional

A Font of your choice.
I used Zipty Do which is a pay font so I can unable to supply it.

2 Tubes of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Joe Pekar.
You can purchase a license to use his work from CILM..

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 transparent image 700 x 700 and flood fill with black so we can see what we are working on - don't worry we will change this later and resize.
Copy and paste my Symbol as a new layer - rename Symbol.
Select your Magic Wand with the following settings:

Click inside the left main shape and go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 8.
See Screen Shot below.

Add a new Raster layer and move it beneath the Symbol layer.
Fill the selection with a light colour from the 'saint' tube.
Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Weave with the following settings and use a dark colour from your tube for the weave and gap colour.

DO NOT Deselect.
Copy and paste your 'saint' tube as a new layer and move this to the top in the layer palette.
Resize as needed - I resized mine by 80% - Bicubic - All layers UNchecked.
Position it where you want it.
Go to Selections - Invert and select your Eraser tool and erase any parts that you don't want to show outside of the selection - I erased the bottom right of the tube but chose to leave her arms and pig tails intact so it looks like she is leaning out.
Deselect and add a Drop Shadow to your tube.
I used:
Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 5
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

You will notice the shadow shows over our Symbol in some areas, don't worry we will hide that later.

Step 2:

In the Layer Palette activate the Symbol layer.
Click inside the Right main shape and go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 8.
Add a new Raster layer and move it beneath the Symbol layer.
Fill the selection with a light colour from the 'sinner' tube.
Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Weave with the same settings we used earlier using a dark colour from your tube for the weave and gap colour.
DO NOT Deselect.
Copy and paste your 'sinner' tube as a new layer and move this to the top in the layer palette.
Resize as needed and position where you want it.
Go to Selections - Invert and select your Eraser tool and erase any parts that you Go to Selections - Invert and select your Eraser tool and erase any parts that you don't want to show outside of the selection - I erased the bottom right of the tube and the parts that went into the left hand shape but chose to leave her arms and pig tails intact so it looks like she is leaning out.
Deselect and add a Drop Shadow to your tube.
I used:
Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 5
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Step 3:

Duplicate the Symbol layer and move to the top in the layer palette.
You can see by the screen shot below that this now covers the tubes but hides the drop shadow areas so we are going to erase the parts we dont need.

Step 4:

Select your Text tool with a font of your choice.
Set your Foreground to a dark colour from your 'sinner' tube and the Background to a light colour and type out the word "Sinner".
Position near to the 'sinner' tube and convert to raster layer.
Go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 and apply the folowing Gradient Glow:
Under basic select Glow Width: 3 - Soft Corners: 25 - Overall Opacity : 100 - Draw Only Outside Selection: checked.
Under Colour - click on Fat.
Add the following Drop Shadow
Vertical and Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Change your Foreground to a dark colour from your 'saint' tube and the Background to a light colour and type out the word "Saint".

Hide your white background layer and crop to size.
Unhide the background layer again.
If you want to resize your image do it now.

Step 5:

Click on the top layer in the Layer Palette to activate it.
Select your Preset Shapes set to Ellipse - Line Style: solid - Line Width: 1 - Foreground: black - Background; Null.
Draw a circle slightly larger than your Symbol - go to Objects - Align - Center in Canvas.
DO NOT convert to raster.
Add a new raster layer and select your Text tool set to a small font of your choice.
Hover your mouse over the circle in the area where you want your text to show. When you see an A with an arc under it click on the canvas.
Type out your artist credits and any license number and tagged by info and then convert to raster layer.
When all your text is added you can delete the vector circle layer.

Finally add your name using colours of your choice and apply the same Gradient Glow we used earlier and save.

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