PassingFancy

This tutorial was written by Laura Emch on August 15, 2007. You may link to this tutorial through your groups and print it out for future use, but nothing, including my ideas, are to be removed from this site. I used the amazing work of Bryan Hey. You must purchase a license to use it; please visit MyPSPTubes to do so.

You will need the following supplies:
Tube and font of your choice
SblendedMasks by Caz; thank you wenchie! Please do NOT change the file names or use in tutorials without her permission.
No filters!

1. Open a new transparent canvas, 600x600. Flood fill with white to give you a better idea of what you’re working with. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Resize as needed, being sure that “resize all layers” is unchecked. Give it a drop shadow of choice.

2. Open another transparent canvas, 200x200. Flood fill with black. Layers/new raster layer and flood fill with a color from your tube.

3. Masks/new from image and look for SblendedMask4; with “invert mask data” checked. Masks/delete, or merge down depending on which version of PSP you are using.

4. On the mask layer, go to effects/texture effects/weave with the following settings:

5. Image/add borders with a width of 5, color white. Copy and paste this image as a new layer on your main canvas and drop behind your tube.

6. Open another 200x200 canvas. Flood fill with the color from your tube you used previously. Layers/new raster layer and flood fill with black. 7. (Note: the tube I chose has two basic colors; feel free to experiment with different colors if you wish!)

7. Masks/new from image and apply the same mask; masks/delete. Effects/texture effects/weave and use the above settings, but change the colors to the one you used from your tube.

8. Image/add borders with a width of 5, color white. Copy and paste this image as a new layer on your main canvas. Image/mirror.

9. On one of your squares, Image/rotate to the right by 45 degrees. On the other, Image/rotate to the left by 45 degrees. Arrange them to your liking in the upper part of your canvas. (See finished tag for reference.)

Give them the following drop shadow:

10. Grab your preset shape tool set on rectangle, with a width of 5. Have your foreground color set on black and your background color the one from your tube. Draw a long, horizontal rectangle beneath your tube. Layers/convert to raster layer.

11. Switch the two colors on your layer palette and draw a second rectangle. Layers/convert to raster layer. Arrange them as shown in the finished tag. Give them both the above drop shadow.

12. Activate your pen tool, set on single line, width 5, line style dot. Have your foreground color set on black, background null. Draw a line inside of your red rectangle and convert it to a raster layer.

13. Repeat the above steps but switch the colors. You may wish to merge some layers at this point; I prefer to keep them all separate in case I need to make adjustments later.

14. Make your white background the active layer. Layers/new raster layer and flood fill with black. Masks/new from image and look for SblendedMask 6. Apply with “invert mask data UNchecked.” Masks/delete.

15. Layers/new raster layer and flood fill with your second choice of color. Repeat the mask process. Image/resize by 75 percent. Image/rotate to the left by 45 degrees.

16. Add any embellishments, doodles, whatever you want to make your tag more unique! I added a bow, a staple, and a doodle mask.

17. Add your text in a font of your choice. I used LHF Sofia Script.

18. Add the appropriate copyright information and your watermark so that you both receive credit for your work!

Crop your image, save as a png, and you’re finished! I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Thanks for stopping by!

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