This tutorial was written on Sunday, May 27th 2012 by Mystery Designs. It was written in PSP X2 and assumes a good, working knowledge of the program. Any similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done intentionally. Please do not copy or claim the tutorial as your own. If you wish to do so, please link to my blog should groups or forums use it in challenges, and please leave me a comment with a link to where it is being used. Thanks :)
**Supplies Needed**
Tube of choice. I'm using a brilliant Halloweeny tube by an artist called Kitamu Latham-Sampier. They are a guest artist over at the Artistic Reality Talent store here
Scrapkit of choice. I found this awesome freebie called “Punk Princess” by Alikas Scraps which you can collect from her blog here
Mask of choice. I'm using two different masks for this particular tag. They are both by the talented Insatiable Dreams (Mask 216 & 220) which you can collect here
Word Art of choice or you can use mine here
Font of choice
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**Plugins**
None
Ready? Lets begin.....
Open up your tube
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Open up a new image – 600 x 600 pixels
Open “as05” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frame”
Arrange it over in the top-left corner of your tag
Grab your Magic Wand Tool with these settings :
Select the inside of the frame
Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 Pixels
Highlight your “Raster 1” layer and rename “Inside”
Open up “paper03” from the kit
Copy – Paste – Into Selection
Selections – None
Open up “as13” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Stars1”
Arrange inside the frame so that none overlaps the edges
Change the Blend Mode of this layer to “Screen”
Open up “as08” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Stars2”
Arrange inside the frame along the top edge
Using your Eraser Tool clear any of the stars which show outside the frame
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “Frame” layer
Add a drop shadow
Copy – Paste your tube As New Layer and rename “Tube”
Arrange it over towards the right-hand side of your tag
Add a drop shadow
Open up “as01” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Dog”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange over towards the bottom-left of your tag
Add a drop shadow
Open up your Word Art of choice.
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Wordart”
If you are using mine, I resized by 55%
Arrange over to the bottom-right of your tag
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “Inside” layer
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “Mask1”
Selections – Select All
Open up “paper03” from the kit
Copy – Paste – Into Selection
Selections – None
Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk and choose “216InsatiableDreams” with these settings :
Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “Mask2”
Selections – Select All
Open up “paper05” from the kit
Copy – Paste – Into Selection
Selections – None
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – Radius 3.00
Grab your Change To Target Brush
Change your foreground to a colour that compliments your tag. I am using #48af21
Re-colour the paper
Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load From Disk and choose “220InsatiableDreams” with the same settings as above
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with these settings :
**If you would like to resize your tag, now is the time to do so**
Add your name and all copyrights.
Save your finished tag and you’re done!
A slightly different take on the tut is below :)
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