This tutorial is written with PsP 9 and is for the advanced psp user.

Needed:

* 3 black and white images, preferably vertical , and that are easy to change to the same size.
   My images are  in the zip file - Put these in a folder of your choice.
* Fonts: Will&Grace en Swan - Put these in your fonts folder.
* My textbrushes - Put these in your PsP 9 brushes folder.
* 2 Masks - 209-kris en 1fadebgmask- Put these in your PsP 9 masks folder.

The 209-kris mask is made by Ms Kris.
You can get her PsP goodies at PaintShop Stop

* supplies zip

Now that you have everything that you need we can finally start…

1. Open the 3 images that I provided for you in the zip or the 3 images of your choice.
Copy with Shift + D and close the originals.
2. Activate your selection tool and use these settings:

3. Open the image of  Ingrid Bergman and put the other 2 aside 
we will use those a little bit later on. With your selection tool you have to select her dress (see screen) and
leave the selection intact when you are finished.

4. Go to Effects - Artistic Effects - Aged Newspaper and use these settings:

5. Repeat step 3 and 4 on the other 2 images.
I'll put some screens here too so you can see the areas I have selected:

6. The images are kind of large so we are going to resize them so go to
Image - Resize and use these settings:

This should be your result now:

Give yourself a pat on the back, because you just finished the hardest part, and now
we are going to create a tag with these images.
Now put these aside for a bit, we will be using them in a minute

7. Open a new image of 750 width x 350 height.
8. Pick a light foreground color, I chose #d9ceba and a dark background color, I chose #76736e
now make a foreground- background gradient and use these settings:

9. Flood fill this image with your gradient.
10. Go to Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic Antique with these settings:

11. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
12. Open your IngridBergman image and go to Edit - Copy.
13. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move her all the way to the left.
14. Go to Layers - Mask Load/ Save - Load Mask from Disk and find
the 1fadebgmask and then use these settings:

15. Go to Layers - Merge - Merge Group
16. Open the Bogart-Bergman image and go to Edit - Copy
17. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it down a bit (see screen)

18. Repeat step 14 and 15
19. Open the last image of  Humphrey Bogart and go to Edit - Copy
20. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it all the way to the right.
21. Again repeat step 14 and 15.
22. Now, pay close attention: Lock your bottom layer and go to
Layers - Merge - Merge visible.
23. With your bottom layer still locked go to
Layers - Mask load/ save - Load mask from disk
 and find the 209-kris masker and use these settings:

24. Selections - From mask
25. Selections - Invert.
26. Layers - Merge - Merge Group and hit delete on your keyboard.
27. Selections - Select nothing.
28. Remove the lock from your bottom layer and activate you top layer.
29. Layers - Duplicate
30. Put the blend mode of your duplicated (top) layer on Exclusion and the opacity on 45
31. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
32. Image - Add borders - symmetric 3 and the color I am using is black
33. Image - Add borders with these settings:

34. Select the white border with your magic wand, tolerance and feather to 0 and
anti alias unchecked.
35. Flood fill this selection with the gradient from step 8 but uncheck the invert box.
36. Leave your selection intact and go to Image - Mirror.
37. With your selection still intact go to Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.
38. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
39. Selections - Select nothing.
40. Activate you Text tool and find the Will&Grace font and use these settings:

Foreground color is #d9ceba and background color is black

41. Type the word Casablanca and place it in the wide border (see screen)

42. Layers - Convert to raster layer.
43. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

44. Change the Blend mode on this layer to Overlay and the opacity to 50.
45. Layers - New raster layer
46. Activate your Brush tool and find MAS-BeginningFriendship-Bogart brush
put your foreground color to black and use these settings:

Put the brush in the lower right corner underneath the image of Bogart (see screen)

47. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

48. Layers - New raster layer.
49. Activate your Brush tool again and find the MAS-Regret-Casablanca brush
with these settings:

 Put the brush in the lower left corner underneath the image of  Bergman (see screen)

50. Apply the same Drop shadow as in step 47.
51. Layers - New raster layer.
52. Activate your Brush tool again and find the MAS-GinJoints brush with
these settings:

Put this brush above the image of Bergman and Bogart (see screen)

53. Again apply the same Drop shadow as in step 47 and 50.
54. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
55. Activate your Text tool and find the Swan font and use these settings:

Lock your background color and change you foreground color to black.
Type your name and place it over the word Casablanca. (see screen)

56. Layers - Convert to raster layer
57. Layers - Merge - Merge all.
58. Image - Add borders 3 pixels symmetric color is black.

And we are finished...Now just put your watermark in, resize, sharpen and
save as a .jpg

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what you think of the tutorial....

Hugs,

AngelFace