This tutorial is written in PsP 9 and is for the advanced PsP user

Needed:

* A beautiful, large tube.
   My tube is in the zip file - Put this in a folder of your choice.
* Fonts: Anastacia Regular - Put this in your Fonts folder.
* A nice gradient.
Mine is in the zip file- Put this in your PsP 9 Gradients folder.
* Plug-in - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles and put this in your Plug-in folder.
* My PsP files - They are in the zip and put these in a folder of your choice.
* Mask - I used the 10e_diamond_circle mask. Put this
in your PsP 9 Mask map. Thank you Martine for the awesome mask.
You can visit her site here.

* supplies zip

Now that you have everything we can finally start…

1. Open a new transparent image of 500 x 350 pixels.
2. Flood fill this image with the MAS-ColorMaybellineTriColor gradient
or use one of your own with these settings:

3. Layers - New Raster layer and flood fill this with a dark color. I am using #49148a
4. Masks - Load from Disk and find the 10e_diamond_circle Mask and use the
following settings:

4. Layers - Merge - Merge Group.
5. Effects - Texture effects - Blinds with the following settings:

6. Effects- 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

7. Effects - Plug-in - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles with these settings:

8. Put the blend mode on this layer to Overlay
9. Now take your large tube and go to Image - Mirror
10. Edit - Copy
11. Edit - paste as a new layer and move it to the right (see screen)

12. Put the blend mode on this layer to Luminance (legacy) and the opacity to 15.
13. Now open the MAS-DiamondLijnenDonker and go to Edit - Copy
ATTENTION: Use the MAS-DiamondLijnenLicht if you are using dark colors
14. Edit - Paste as a new Layer
15. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:
ATTENTION: If you are using the light lines put the color of the shadow on white.

16. Open the tube again, if it is still mirrored then change that back first.
17. Image - Resize with the following settings:

18. Adjust - Sharpen - Unsharp Mask with the following settings:

19. Edit - Copy
20. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it all the way to the left (see screen)

21. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

22. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
23. Now open the Vlinder.psp and go to Edit - Copy
24. Edit - Paste as a new layer and with your mover tool
put in one of the squares (see screen)

25. Put the blend mode of this layer to Luminance (legacy) and the opacity to 50.
25. Layers - Duplicate
26. Image - Rotate - Free Rotate - 45 degrees left (see screen)

27. Layers - Duplicate
28. Image - Mirror and move the butterfly into the square next to the
beautiful lady's head (see screen)

29. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
30. Activate you text tool and find the Anastacia Regular Font, for the colors I use
 #49148a as foreground color and I am using the MAS-ColorMaybellineTriColor verloop
as background color and I am using these settings:

31. Place your name on the tag and when satisfied go to Layers - Convert to Raster layer
32. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

33. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
34. And yes here we go again...LOL...
Image - Add Borders - 2 pixels symmetric and I am
using #49148a for the color.

Well the tag is finished...Now add your watermark and resize if you want and
then save as a .jpg

Go here to see some other results

I really hope you have enjoyed the tutorial....and please leave me a message in
my Guestbook to let me know what you thought of the tutorial...

Hugs,

AngelFace