Tube used in this tutorial created by Moedog's Garden  She has some beautiful tubes that she has created.  If you wish to use the same tube I used, check out her floral tubes here.

This tutorial created on December 27, 2004 and is the sole property of Bubbles' Psp; please do not copy this tutorial in whole or in part to add to another site unless you have permission from me to do so.  This tutorial was created using Psp Vs 7 and should be able to be done in all versions of Psp.

For this tutorial you will need the following:

PSP  (Trial version)

Redfield's Lattice Composer

Xero (Set 2)

Tube and font of choice

Let's get started on our tag :)

1.  Open your tube image in Psp; Shift+D to make a copy of your tube; close out the original so you can have it for future use.

2.  Image/Canvas Size 500w x 500h; center image horizontally and vertically checked.  Image/Resize; resize your tube (if needed) by 80% resize all layers unchecked; bicubic resample is your resize type.

3.  Layers/Duplicate and duplicate your tube layer two (2) times for a total of three (3) layers with your tube on it.  X out (click on the glasses next to the layers) the top and the middle tube layer.  Click on your bottom tube layer to make it your active layer. 

4.  Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur with a radius of 14.  Effects/Plugin Filters/Redfield/Lattice Composer using the jalousie preset (settings shown below).

5.  With your mover tool, move your tube over to the left hand side of your image.  Click on the X next to your middle tube layer to reveal your tube; make sure the middle tube layer is your active layer.

6.  Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur with a radius of 14.  Effects/Plugin Filters/Lattice Composer/ using the "wallen tiles" preset. (settings shown below).

7.  Layers/Arrange send to bottom.  Image/Rotate/20 degrees to the right.  All Layers should NOT be checked.

8.  Duplicate the layer that you just rotated (the wallen tiles layer).  With your mover tool, move this tube layer a little to the right and down some (see my tag for example).  With your top tube layer still hidden, and one of your three background layers your active layer, go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

9.  Effects/Plugin Filters/Xero/Soft Mood using the settings below.

10.  Remove the X next to your top tube layer; position your tube on your background (see my tag for example)  Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings:

Vertical 2; Horizontal 2; Opacity 85; Blur 10; Color Black

Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

11.  Time to add our text.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  I'm using Avalon Medium; Size 90; Stroke Width 2; Antialias and Floating checked; Foreground/Stroke color is #CE509B and the Background/Fill color is set to #F7F8E2.

12.  Type the text you want on  your tag and position it where you want it; I rotated my text by about 20% to the left.  Then I applied Xero's Soft Mood using the default settings (I applied this effect while the text was still selected).  Apply a drop shadow using the settings below:

Vertical 2; Horizontal 2; Opacity 68; Blur 4.9; Color Black

Selections/Select None.  Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

13.  Edit/Copy; Edit/Paste/Paste As New Image.  This will remove the excess white space around your tag; resize if needed and save in desired format.

Below is another example I created from this tutorial.