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This is what we will be making

Tag is created using the beautiful art of Annika Smidt

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This tutorial is fairly long, so bear with me. It is written for versions 8 & 9 and it is assumed that you have a working knowledge of PSP.

Here we will use DSB Flux Center Mirror, Filter Factory Gallery H Zoom Blur and Almathera Warper and this mask

Lets get started

Open a new canvas 600 x 600

Remember - once you have duplicated a layer, you can not move anything around or you will get a tag that hops. If you move anything around by mistake go to edit - undo move !!!

Fill the canvas with a colour of your choice

Go to Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask from disk. Scroll until you find the right mask

use these settings

Click Load

Go to Layers - Merge Group

Resize by 85% - all layers not checked

now go to Effects - DSB Flux Center Mirror - Mirrors 10 - Rotation 100

Still on the same layer - Effects - Almathera Warper - Warp factor -20. Twirl and Transparency 0.

Still on the same layer - Effects - Filter Factory Gallery H - Zoom Blur - Amount 22 - Adjust 9

Repeat Almathera Warper with same settings

This is what we should have now

Rename this layer to Mask and duplicate the layer twice and add a new raster layer

Find your preset shapes and find a shape of your liking. I mostly use the star and heart shapes. I find they work best with this tag.

Foreground colour active, background colour turned off

Draw your star/heart so it covers the empty middle of the mask.

Highlight the vector layer and choose Convert to raster layer. Rename this layer Star

Delete the layer called Raster 1

Now duplicate the Star layer twice

Add Inner Bevel with these settings

Hide the two copy layers and highlight the first Star layer. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise

Choose Gaussian - 70% - Monochrome checked.

now click inside the star with your magic wand and flood fill with a colour of your choice.

Now hide this layer and unhide the first copy layer, highlight and add noise. This time choose Uniform, same settings. Click inside the star and flood fill with the same colour as before.

Hide this layer and unhide the second copy layer, highlight and add noise. This time choose Random with the same settings and click inside the star and flood fill.

Find the tube you want to use and copy and paste as a new layer. With your mover tool place it on the tag and rename this layer to Tube. We will wait with duplicating this layer, incase you want to move it around.

Add a new layer.

Find a circle in your preset tools, turn off the background colour and draw a circle around the image

Click on your text tool and choose your font and colours. Move your mouse around the circle until you see the letter A with a parenthesis underneath the letter. Click and start typing your text. Eg. Good Morning, Welcome etc. Before you click ok you can move the text forward by pushing the spacebar on your keyboard. Click ok and add your text. If you want to move it around, you can do this with the deformation tool.

Now you have a raster layer 1, a vector layer and Promoted layer. If you move your mouse above the raster1 layer you will see there is nothing there, so you can delete this layer and you can also delete the vector layer. This will make the circle disappear.

Your text is on the promoted layer. Duplicate this layer twice and add noise on each of the layers as before. Gaussian, Uniform and Random in order and again 70% and monochrome checked.

Go back to your Tube layer and check that you have your tube where you want it and duplicate twice. Also if you want to add artist copyright this is a good time to do that on a new layer, rename to cright and duplicate twice.

Add a new layer. Write your name and rename this layer to name. Duplicate twice and add noise with the same settings as before.

We have now quite a few layers. Rule is that you should have 1 of each with 2 duplicates -> 3 layers of each. Move your mouse over your layer palette to make sure you don't have any empty layers. Delete those. Also if you wish your tag to have a white background you can add a layer and move it to the bottom. Flood fill with white and duplicate twice.

What I usually do at this point is to hide ALL layers. Then I unhide the bottom layer and every third layer working my way upwards on the layer palette. This way I know that I get everything on each merge. Once you have done that, go to Layers - Merge - Merge visible. Hide the Merged layer and of the remaining layers unhide every other layer and Merge visible. Hide this layer (you should now have two merged layers) unhide the rest of the layers and merge visible.