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Template by Denz Designz ; Scrap kit by Fantasy Moments; Tube by Alejandra Rosales This tutorial was created on June 8, 2009 and is the sole property of It's Me Again Tuts by Bonnie. Please do not remove this tutorial, in whole or in part, from this website to add to another website unless you have permission from me to do so. This tutorial was created using Psp vs 9, but can be done using other versions of Psp. FOR THIS TUTORIAL YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING: Paint Shop Pro (trial version) Template81 here Scrap kit Joyful here Tube and font of choice Brushes of choice (optional) Okay, let's get started on our tag! 1. Open your supplies in Psp; minimize all but the template to your Psp workspace. Delete the top layer (credits layer) of the template. Optional Step: I want my template to be bigger, so I went to Image/Resize and resized the template by 110%. Resize all layers IS checked; bicubic resize. 2. With the template being the active image, activate the shape 2 layer. Selections/Select All. Selections/Float; Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper9 and go to Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection. Selections/Select None. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the settings shown below. Vertical -2; Horizontal -1; Opacity 80; Blur 5; Color Black
3. With the template being the active image, activate the large circle layer. Selections/Select All; Selections/Float; Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper6 and go to Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste As New Layer (this way the pattern won't be distorted). Position the paper 6 over the selection and go to Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key on the keyboard. Selections/Select None. Apply the same drop shadow effect as used in Step 2. 4. With the template being the active image, activate the small circle layer. Selections/Select All; Selections/Float; Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper2 and go to Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste As New Layer. Position the paper over the selection and go to Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key on the keyboard. Selections/Select None. Apply the same drop shadow effect as used in Step 2. Then apply a drop shadow effect using the settings shown below. Vertical 2 Horizontal 1; Opacity 56; Blur 5; Color Black
5. With the template image being the active image, activate the shape1 layer and go to Selections/Select All. Selections/Selections Float. Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper8 and go to Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection. Selections/Select None. Apply the same drop shadow effect as used in Step 2. 6. With the template being the active image, activate the 2squares left layer. Selections/Select All; Selections Float; Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper2 and go to Image/Resize. Resize the paper2 by 50%; resize all layers IS checked; bicubic resize type is used. Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste As New Layer. Position the paper2 over the selections; Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key on the keyboard. Selections/Select None. Apply the a drop shadow effect to the squares using the settings shown below. Vertical 2; Horizontal 1; Opacity 50; Blur 5; Color Black; Repeat the drop shadow effect EXCEPT change the Vertical to -2 and the Horizontal to -1 7. With the template being the active image, activate the 2 squares bottom layer. Selections/Select All; Selections/Float; Selections/Defloat. Repeat the same steps for these squares as used in Step 6. With the template being the active image, activate the hottie wordart layer. Selections/Select All; Selections/Float; Selections/Defloat. Restore the paper7 and go to Edit/Copy. Back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection. Selections/Select None. Effects/Texture Effects/Weave using the settings shown below. Gap Size 2; Width 6; Opacity 44; Weave and Gap color #302E41; Fill Gaps checked
8. Apply the same drop shadow effect to your text as used in Step 4 (screen shot settings) EXCEPT change the opacity to 75. Restore the tube that you will be using on your tag; Edit/Copy. Back to the tag image and Edit/Paste/Paste As New Layer. Position your tube on the tag as shown in header tag. Apply a drop shadow effect to the tube using the same settings as in Step 4 EXCEPT change the blur to 12. 9. Apply whatever elements you wish to your tag. Resize the elements to desired size, apply a drop shadow effect, and position the elements on your tag. Add brush effects to your tag if desired. Layers/New Raster Layer. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom. Flood fill this layer with the color white. Add a new raster layer over the white background and apply some brush effects under your tag. 10. Add your text or watermark to your tag. For my tag, I used the following settings for my name. Chelsea Studio; Size 60; Stroke Width 2; Vector I used the color #3C3A40 for the width and the paper7 for the text fill. Then, I applied the weave effect using the same settings as used previously. 11. Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). Crop away any excess white space around your tag; resize your tag if necessary. Save tag in desired format.
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