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

Needed:

*A beautiful large tube. My tube is in the zip, put this in a folder of your choice
The original graphic is © Der Hase
Put the filters in your filters folder.
* Filters Unlimited 2.0 - demo
* FilterDSB Flux
* Fonts: Carleton - Put this in your fonts folder
* My selection - Put this in your PsP 9 Selection folder
* Texture - Put this in your PsP 9 Texture folder
* Brushes - Put these in your PsP 9 Brushes folder

supplies zip

Now that you have everything lets start creating a tag...

1. Open a new transparent image of 500 x 500 pixels.
2. Pick 2 colors from your tube. A dark foreground color and a light
background color. Remember them because you are going to need them again at the end of the tutorial.
For the best effect I would choose 2 colors that
 are not to much in contrast of each other. See the example of my colors:

3. Flood fill your image with your foreground color.
4. Go to Effects - Filters - Filters Unlimited 2 - Gradient - Linear Duplex and use the standard settings.
If this is not in the demo version you can pick up the zip file here and import the file
into your Filters Unlimited.

5. Layers - New Raster Layer
6. Go to your brush tool and find the KO-Bouquet2 brush. Use your foreground color and use the
following settings for your brush:

7. Put the brush into the upper left corner like the example:

8. Layers - New Raster Layer
9. Selections - Load from Disk - MAS-HeavensMusicianLinks

10. Fill the selection with your foreground color.
11. Selections -  Select nothing.
12. Effects - Filters - DSB Flux - Linear Transmission with the following settings:

13. Image - Resize with the following settings:
ATTENTION: Resize all layers NOT checked.

14. Put the Blend mode on this layer to Luminance (old) and the opacity on the layer to 50
15. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

16. Layers - Duplicate and then go to Image - Mirror.
17. Got to your move tool and move the Copy of Layer 2 to the upper right corner
and move Layer 2 to the bottom left corner. You should now have something like this:

18. Go to Layers - Merge - Merge Down
19. Go to your tube Edit - Copy
20. Edit - Paste as a new Layer and rename this layer Tube large
 then move your tube to the right like the example.
Your placement depends on how large your tube is so just play around a little.

21. Put the Blend mode on this layer to Luminance (old) and the opacity on the layer to 15.
22. Go back to your tube, but first some steps before you put it on the tag.
Image - Resize with the following settings:

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

24. Image - Mirror.
25. Edit - Copy
26. Go to your  tag and Edit - Paste as a new Layer and rename the layer Tube small
You should now have something like this:

27. Go to your move tool and move your tube slightly to the left links and then
downwards, see screen below:

28. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

29. Layers - New Raster Layer
30. Go to your Brush tool SxyCrzyKewl-[converted] Icon Text 3 020 and
use dark color. I am using #4f2f20.
Use the following settings for your Brush tool and put them on your tag.

31. Now you still have 3 brushes to put on your tag, SxyCrzyKewl-[converted] Icon Text 3 021,
SxyCrzyKewl-[converted] Icon Text 3 017 and SxyCrzyKewl-[converted] Icon Text 3 018.
Put them all on a separate layer so you can still move them. I placed them like this:

32. When you are completely satisfied with everything go to Layers - Merge all (flatten).
33. Go to your Text tool, find your Carleton font and use the following settings:

34. Type your name without using enter, because with these settings your name will be placed vertical on your tag.
I have put my name on the left, but you can put it anywhere you like of course, just use your own creativity.

35. Layers - Convert to Raster layer.
36. Effects - 3d Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

37. Layers - Merge All (flatten)

You can stop right here or you can add some borders like I did
(I know, but I just love these borders....hihihihi)
If you decide to stop now, just add your watermark, maybe resize and don't forget to
sharpen it after resizing and save as .jpg. If you decide to continue then lets get going to
the next step.

38. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - color #4f2f20

39. Go to your Magic wand - Tolerance, Feather and Anti - Alias set to 0 and select your border
40. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel with these settings:

41. Selections - Select nothing
42. Image - Add borders - 10 pixels - color #f5d0a4

43. Put your foreground and background colors back to the ones you started out with
in the beginning of the tutorial. In my case that would be #d69054 as foreground color and background color #f5d0a4.
Go to your Magic wand, with the same settings as before and select your border.
44. Effects - Filters - Filters Unlimited - Gradient - Linear Duplex with the standard settings
45. Keep your border selected and then go to Effects - Texture effects - Texture and find the
m_texture and use the following settings:

46. Selections - Select nothing
47. Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - color #4f2f20
48. Go to your Magic wand and select your border and go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
with the same settings as step 40.

Your tag is now finished...add your watermark, maybe resize and don't forget to
sharpen it after resizing and save as .jpg

Click here to see some results

Well it has been a long tutorial again but I hope you enjoyed it.
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Hugs,

AngelFace