This tutorial was written by Monti on July 20th 2006. 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.

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

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Script Font of your Choice
(I used Scriptina).

A tube of your choice
The image used in this tutorial is ©Barbara Jensen.
If you wish to use her work please visit www.eroticartistgallery.com to purchase a license.

A Scrap Kit of your choice with 4 backgrounds and a ribbon.
I have made 4 backgrounds that you can use and colourize to match your tube if you want. I have also enclosed the name plate tube and a ribbon. You can download them here.

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 your tube and press shift D to make a copy. close the original.
Open the nameplate tube and the ribbon and minimize.
Open your 4 background images. If necessary resize them to 700x700 to help prevent psp freezing. Minimize them.
Colourize the backgrounds, name plate and ribbon to match your tubes.
You can either do this by going to Adjust/ Hue and Saturation/ Colourize and adjust the settings until you are happy with it
OR
I prefer to use the colour to target brush.


To use this, select a colour from your tube as your foreground colour and then click on Colour to Target and go over the area you want to colour.

Open a new image 600 x 600 and flood fill with white.
Add a new raster layer. With your selection tool, feather 0 click on custom selection.


Use the settings shown below.


Select your flood fill tool with your foreground set to pattern. Select the background you wish you have on the bottom and flood fill this selection.
I used the spots as the bottom layer.
Deselect.
Image rotate with the settings shown below.


Step 2

Add a new raster layer.
With your selection tool, feather 0 click on custom selection.
Use the settings shown below.


Flood fill with a different background.
(I used the white flowered one and changed the size to 70)
Deselect.
Image rotate with the settings shown below.


Step 3

Add a new raster layer.
With your selection tool, feather 0 click on custom selection.
Use the settings shown below.


Flood fill with a different background.
I used the stripes on size 100
Deselect.
Image rotate with the settings shown below.


Step 4

Add a new raster layer.
With your selection tool, feather 0 click on custom selection.
Use the settings shown below.


Flood fill with a different background.
I used the swirls on size 100
Deselect
Image rotate with the settings shown below.


Click on each layer and add the following drop shadow to each.
V and H = 2
Opacity = 25
Blur = 3
Colour = black
Click on each layer again and add the following drop shadow to each.
V and H = -1
Opacity = 25
Blur = 3
Colour = black

Step 5

Click on the top layer to activate it and then copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Resize if necessary.
Add the following drop shadow.
V and H = 5
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = black

Maximize your name plate tube. It is in layers, so you can colourize it to match your tag. Do this and then copy merged and paste as a new layer on your image.
Add the same drop shadows you added to the backgrounds.

Select your text tool and a colour and font of your choice and type your name. Add a drop shadow of your choice.
(I used Scriptina size 36, vector and used the nodes to fit it into the box. I also added the following drop shadow
V and H = 1
Opacity = 50
blur = 2 colour
Colour = black

Step 6

You can now close your backgrounds and original name plate tube.
Maximise your ribbon tube and copy.
On your main image hide all layers apart from your bottom 2 scrap backgrounds and merge them visible. Staying on that merged layer paste your ribbon tube as a new layer.
Rotate using the settings shown below .


Move into position.
Add the following drop shadow.
V and H = 2
Opacity = 25
Blur = 3
Colour = black

Duplicate and move to the bottom right.
Merge down.
Select your magic wand, tolerance and feather 0 and activate your merged background layer.
Click with your magic wand outside the backgrounds. Activate your ribbon layer and hit delete on your keyboard.

Add the artist Copyright, and your watermark.
Hide the white background and merge all visible.
Crop and unhide your white background.
Resize as desired making sure bicubic is selected and save as a jpg.






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