This tutorial created May 21, 2004 and is the property of Bubbles' Psp; please do not remove this tutorial in part or in whole from this site.  Do not hotlink to my tutorials or anything else on my website.  That uses up my bandwidth. 

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All tutorials created using Psp version 7; all other versions should be able to create my tutorials.

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro (Trial Version)

Fantastic Machines (Paint Engine)

Xenofex

Mask and goldfill pattern here

Tube and font of choice

If anyone know who the creator is of this mask or the artist of the tube, please contact me so I can give credit to them for their wonderful work.

1.  Open your tube, mask, and goldfill pattern and minimize them on your Psp workspace for now.  Open a new image size 500 w x 500 h with a transparent background.

2.  Set your foreground/stroke color to #A80A0A; for your background/fill color it doesn't matter what it is set to; click on the arrow on your background color palette and switch to patterns; select the goldfill pattern I supplied for this tutorial; angle 0 scale 100%

3.  Floodfill your new image with your foreground color (the red color).  Effects/Plugin Filters/Fantastic Machines/Paint Engine using the settings shown below.

4.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  Floodfill this layer with your goldfill pattern.  Masks/New/From Image/lit_mask12 using the settings shown below.

5.  Masks/Delete.  Merge into current layer? YES!  Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the settings shown below.  Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

Vertical 1; Horizontal 1; Opacity 84; Blur 2.5; Color Black

6.  Bring up your tube on your Psp workspace; go to Edit/Copy.  You can close out your tube now as we won't need it any longer.  Make your masked image active and go to Edit/Paste/As New Layer.  Resize your tube if needed.  Position your tube like you want it on your tag; see my tag at the top of the page for an example.

7.  Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the settings shown below.

Vertical 0; Horizontal 2; Opacity 84; Blur 8.6; Color Black

8.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.  Image/Resize by 90%; resize all layers is unchecked; resize type is bicubic resample.

9.  Effects/PluginFilters/Xenofex/Distress using the settings shown below.

Edge Width 10; Irregularity 80; Edge Type jagged

10.  Selections/Select All.  Selections/Float.  Selections/Modify/Expand by 5.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  Floodfill this layer with your goldfill pattern.  Layers/Arrange/Move Down.  Selections/Select None.

11.  Your goldfill layer should be your active layer.  Effects/PluginFilters/Xenofex/Distress using the same settings as before in Step 9.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

12.  Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the same settings as in Step 7.

Vertical 0; Horizontal 2; Opacity 84; Blur 8.6; Color Black

13.  Image/Resize.  Resize your tag by 85% resize all layers is unchecked; resize type is bicubic resample.  You may need to move your tag up a little towards the top of the image so that you'll have more room for your text.

14.  Okay, time for our text.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  Toggle your colors so that your goldfill pattern is your foreground color and your red color is now your background color.  Click on the letter A in your tool palette to activate your text tool.  Below are the settings I used for my text.

Font Estranged 2; Size 72; Floating and Antialias checked; Kerning 23 (optional; depends on your text); Stroke Width 2

15.  Click on your tag image to open your text box; type the text you want to put on your tag and click ok.  Your text will have ants floating around it; do no deselect it yet.  Position your text on your tag.

16.  Now, you can either just add a drop shadow effect to your text or you can do what I did.  While my text was still selected, I went to Simple Filters/Offset by 3.  Then I used the drop shadow effect with these settings:

Opacity 84; Blur 2.5; Vertical 2; Horizontal 2

Deselect your text.  I really like the effect the Offset filter gives to the text.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.  Edit/Copy; Edit/Paste/As New Image.  This will remove any excess canvas space around your tag.  Resize if needed.  Layers/Merge/Merge all (flatten).  Save in desired format.

View my testers' results here.