This tutorial is written in PsP 9.

Needed:

* Some misted tubes.
   My tubes are in the zip file - Put these in a folder of your choice.
* Fonts: GoldenEye en Acroterian JF - Put these in your Fonts folder.
* Mask - 173MaskkelsWWA - Put this in your PsP 9 Masks folder.
My selection - Put this in your PsP 9 Selections folder.
My text brushes - Put these in your PsP 9 Brushes folder.
Texture - Put this in your PsP 9 Textures folder.

The mask I used is made by MzKels and you can find her awesome site here .

* supplies zip

Please keep in mind that you may have to play around with the blend modes and the
opacity on the layers when you are using different colors and tubes.

Open all the tubes provided and use Shift + D to make a copy and
then close the originals.

Now that we have everything we need we can finally begin.

1. Open a new transparent image of 800 x 600 pixels.
2. Pick a dark foreground color, I chose #583f2c and pick a light background color
I chose #ce9366. Make a Foreground/ Background gradient and fill your image with it using these settings:

3. Go to Effects - Texture effects - Texture and look for the D_hessian65bw texture and
use the following settings:

4. Now take the MAS-GhostWhispererMisted tube and go to Edit - Copy
5. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it to the left against the border and to the top so
you will not see the sharp edges on the tube.
6. Put the Blend mode on the layer to Soft Light and the opacity to 50.
7. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
8. Image - Mirror.
9. Layers - New rasterlayer and floodfill with a dark color, I am using #382013.
10. Layers - Load/ save mask - Load mask from disk
and look for the173MaskkelsWWA then use these settings:

11. Layers - Merge - Merge group.
12. Put the Blend mode on this layer to Saturation.
13. Layers - New raster layer and flood fill with your light color in my case that is #ce9366
then put the Blend mode to Multiply and the opacity 50
14. Take the MAS-GravesMisted tube and go to Image - Mirror
15. Edit - Copy.
16. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it to the bottom left corner. (see screen)

17. Put the Blend mode on the layer to Luminance (legacy) and the opacity to 30.
18. Get the MAS-GhostWhispererMisted-1 tube and go to Edit - Copy
19. Edit - Paste as a new layer and move it to the upper left corner. (see screen)
20. Put the Blend mode Hard Light and the opacity to 65.

21. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

We are going to place 3 brushes and after step 24 you can see where I placed them.
That is easier for me then making 3 different screenshots.

22. Layers - New raster layer
23. Activate your brush tool and find the MAS-GhostWhisperer-1 brush
and use your dark color to place it on your work.
24. Layers - New raster layer and find the MAS-GhostWhisperer-2 brush
and use your light color to place it on your work.
25. Layers - New raster layer and find the MAS-GhostWhisperer-3 brush
and use your dark color to place it on your work
26. Image - Rotate - Free rotate 90 degrees left.

Here's the screen with all 3 brushes:

27. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.
28. Activate your Text tool and look for the 007 GoldenEye font. For the colors use your dark foreground color and
your light background color. I am using  #382013 as my dark color and #ce9366 for my light color.
Use these settings for the font:

29. Now type the words of your choice. I chose the words Ghost Whisperer
because I based this tag on the television show and I am placing them at the bottom of my tag.
30. Layers - Convert to raster layer.
31. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

32. Put the Blend mode on Overlay and the opacity on 80.
33. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.
34. Layers - New raster layer
35. Selections - Load/ save selections - Load selection from disk and look for the
MAS-1-GhostWhisperer selection and use these settings:

36. Flood fill your selection with your light color, I will be using #ce9366 again.
37. Put the Blend mode on Multiply and the opacity at 45.
38. Layers - Duplicate.
39. Image - Flip and with your Mover tool move the copy down (see screen)

40. take the MAS-GhostWhispererMisted-2 tube and go to Edit - Copy.
41. Edit - Paste as a new layer and place it in between  the 2 " selections ". (see screen)

Put the Blend mode on Dodge and the opacity at 70.

42. Activate your Text tool again and look for the Acroterion JF font and make your dark color
your background color and lock your foreground color then use the following settings:

ATTENTION: If you use PsP X then your text size can be different then in PsP 9.

 You can write your own name there, I chose the name of the leading actress in the show.

43. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
44. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels with your dark color.
45.Image - Add borders - 2 pixels with your light color.
46. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels with your dark color

And that is it...Now add your watermark and resize the tag, because it is a large one
this time....don't forget to sharpen and save as .jpg

Click here to see more results

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my Guestbook....

Hugs,

AngelFace