This tutorial is written in PsP 9

Needed:

* A beautiful tube.
   My tube is in the zip file - Put it in a folder of you choice
* Fonts: Altast Greeting - Put this in your fonts folder
* A nice gradient.
Mine is in the zip file- Put this in your PsP 9 Gradients Folder
* A brush - Put this in PsP 9 Brushes folder
The brush I used is from Creatively Bound.
* A mask - Put this in you PsP 9 Mask folder
I used a mask from Ms Kris and you can find her PsP goodies at PaintShop Stop
* My PsP files - They are in the zip file and put this in a folder of your choice

* Supplies zip

Now that you have everything we can finally start

1. Open a new transparent image 500 x 400 pixels.
2. Flood fill with the  MAS-Phantom gradient or your own gradient using the following settings.
   Make sure it is set to linear.

3. Go to Adjust - Add/ Remove Noise - Add noise and use the following settings:

4. Effects - Distortion Effects - Ripple and use the following settings:

5. Layers - New Raster layer
6. Flood fill with a dark color. I'm using  #e4cf9c
7. Masks - Load from Disk and find the 128-kris masks and
use the following settings:

8. Layers - Merge Group
9. Open the MAS-PhantomLogo tube
10. Edit - Copy
11. Go to your tag and then Edit - Past as a new layer and with
your Mover tool place it in the upper right corner. (see screen)

12. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow and use the following settings:

13. Put the Blend mode on this layer to  Hard Light and the opacity 30
14. Open the PsP file Phantom Lijnen
ATTENTION: If you are using dark colors then take PhantomLijnenLicht
15. Edit - Copy
16. Edit - Paste as a new layer and with your Mover tool and move
the lines to the bottom right corner. (see screen)

17. Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave and use the following settings:

18. Put the Blend mode on this layer to  Hard Light and the opacity 55
19. Layers - New Raster Layer
20. Activate your Brush tool and use the following settings:

21. Find the @cb-instrumental 4 brush and put it on the tag,
I'm using the color black.

22. Move it to the left side with your Mover tool  (see screen)

23. Put the opacity on this layer to 25.
24. Open the PhantomTekst file and go to Edit - Copy
25. Edit - Paste as new Layer
26. Image - Rotate - Free Rotate with the following settings:

27. Move your text with your Mover tool over your brush
and put the blend mode on this layer to Overlay.
28. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

Your tag should be looking like this:

29. Layers - New Raster Layer
30. Open your tube and go to Image - Resize with the following settings:

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

32. Image - Mirror
33. Edit - Copy
34. Edit - Paste as new layer on your tag and move it
down with your Mover tool. (see screen)

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

36. Layers - Merge visible.

I'm using the following colors for my name:

#e4cf9c
		#fbf3d4

37. Go to your Text tool, find the Altast Greeting Font with the following settings:

38. Put your name on the tag.
39. Image - Rotate - Free Rotate 45 degrees
ATTENTION: all layers NOT checked.
40. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:
ATTENTION: With a long name it may be needed to move it somewhat to
the left before you apply the shadow.

41. With your Mover tool move it to place of your liking.
42. Layers - Merge All (flatten)
43. Image - Add Borders - 1 pixel symmetric and I'm
the following color #642921

And the tutorial is finished...Now add your watermark, resize if you want and save
it as a .jpg

Click here to see some different results

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Hugs,

AngelFace