This tutorial created on April 15, 2004 and is the sole property of Bubbles' PSP.    Do not copy this tutorial or any part of this tutorial to another site unless you have permission from me to do so.  PSP groups, please feel free to use any of my tutorials that you wish to use in your groups; I just ask that you do not direct link to my tutorials; please just share the url to the tutorial.   I used PSP version 7 to create this tutorial; I see no reason why it can't be done in other versions.

JUST A NOTE:  Due to the fact that I have been going over my bandwidth limit for the last three months, I am considering closing down my site.  It's just getting to be too big of a headache to deal with.  It's something that I do not want to do, but if the bandwidth problem continues, I will do so. Now, let's get on with our tag tutorial :)

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Jasc Paint Shop Pro (Trial Version)

Xero Filters (DuoChrome)(Set 3)

Screenworks

FM Tile Tools

Tube of choice

Font of choice

Let's get started on our tag!

1.  Open your tube in PSP that you are going to use on your tag; Shift+D to make a copy of your tube; close out the original tube as we will be working with the copy.

2.  Image/Canvas Size.  Change the canvas size of your tube to 500w x 500h; center image horizontally and vertically are both checked.  If your tube is still taking up too much space on your canvas, just resize your tube by 75-85%;  resize all layers unchecked.

3.  Layers/Duplicate.  You should have two layers now with your tube on it.  X out (hide) the "Copy of Layer 1" layer. (click on the glasses by the layer on your layer palette to hide the layer; to open your layer palette, just hit the letter l on your keyboard.)

4.  Make layer 1 (the first tube layer) your active layer.  Select two colors from your tube; I selected a med/dark color for my foreground color #9d0e51 and a med/light color for my bkg color #edabe1.  Effects/Plugin Filters/Xero/Duochrome using the settings shown below.

5.  Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur with the radius set to 10.00.

6.  Effects/Geometric Effects/Wave using these settings:

Amplitude on both sides - 5

Wavelength on both sides - 5

7.  Effects/Plugin Filters/Screeworks/Lace Screen.  Effects/Plugin Filters/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss using the default settings except change the Intensity to 160.

8.  Remove the glasses from your "Copy of Layer 1" layer. (click on the glasses next to the layer to remove the glasses and reveal your tube).  Click on the layer to make it your active layer.

9.  Image/Resize by 90%.  Percentage of original is checked; maintain aspect ratio is checked; resize all layers is unchecked.  Resize type is Bicubic Resample.

10.  Effects/ 3D Effects/Drop Shadow using these settings:

Opacity 75; Vertical 2; Horizontal 2; Blur 12.3

11.  With your mover tool, move your tube down and a little to the left.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

12.  Now it's time for your text.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  Once again, select two colors from your tube; you can use the same two colors that you chose before when we used the duochrome filter if you wish.  I'm using #ad5584 for my foreground color and #edabe1 for my background color.

13.  Click on the small arrow on the right hand side of your background color box.  When the popup box appears, select gradients.  Click on the arrow by the picture of the gradient  and select your foreground/bkg gradient from the selection of gradients.

14.  Click on the letter A on the tool palette to make your text tool active.  Then click on your tag to open your text box.  Below are the settings I used for my text.

Font - The Daily Blah; Size - 80; Bold; Floating; Antialias

15.  Type in your text and click okay.  With your mover tool, place your text in the position you want it on your tag.  Layers/Duplicate.  X out the copy of your text layer and make your original text layer the active layer.

16.  Effects/Plugin Effects/Xero/Duochrome using the same settings as before in Step 4.  Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur with a radius of 10. 

17.  Remove the X from the copy of text layer.  Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the settings shown below.

18.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.  Edit/Copy.  Edit/Paste/As New Image.  This will get rid of the excess white space around your tag.  Layers/Merge/Merge all (flatten).  Resize if needed and save in desired format.

Here is another example of the Duochrome Blur Tag.

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