Towline Tag

Tag is created using art of and copyright to Al Rio

You can see more of hisr art at www.alrioart.com

For this tutorial you will only need PSP and the Tramages filter.

Let's get started.

Choose your tube and open a new canvas 400x500.

Choose a gradient with a color that goes with your tube. Angle 124 - repeats 1. You can of course also make your own gradient choosing two colors from your tube and go to foreground/background of your gradients, with the same angle and repeat.

Flood fill your canvas and go to Effects - Tramages Filter - Tow the line and add with the default settings

Add a new layer and choose your Preset Tools - Rectangle - Line width 7 and turn off your background color

Draw a small rectangle and duplicate this layer and resize the duplicated layer by 85% - all layers unchecked. With your mover tool move the resized layer, so it's in the middle of the bigger rectangle. Now hide all other layers except the two layers with the rectangle and Merge visible and to the merged layer add inner bevel with the following settings.

Duplicate the merged layer twice and with your deformation tool turn the top layer about 90 degrees. Now do the same to the second layer from top and with your mover tool move them in to position

This is what you should have now

Now go to your tube and copy and paste as a new layer on the background and resize with all layers unchecked if needed

Add drop shadow

The font I used on my tag is Algerian and in my computer it is a system font and I used the same foreground color as on the back ground and gradient as background color. Text size 72.

Add a new layer and type in your name

Add the same inner bevel as before and drop shadow

Add a new layer and type Welcome - text size 55 and add Inner Bevel and Drop Shadow as before

Add artist info on a new layer

Now when you look at the image the sides of the back ground aren't quite straight. We will crop the image very slightly from the sides. My canvas size is now 395 x 498.

Go to layers - Merge - Merge All ( Flatten)

No go to Image - Add Borders

Add borders with these settings

As you can see I have chosen a bright color that is very different from the colors on my image

Click on the brightly colored border with your magic wand and add your fore ground color and add the same Inner bevel - no drop shadow

Now go to Image - Add Borders again, but this time change the pixel size to 14 and add the gradient you have as a back ground color No Inner Bevel this time.

And repeat a third time, this time pixel size 4 and use the foreground color and add the same inner bevel .

Resize your image and save as jpg

Hope you found this tutorial easy to follow

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