Thank you for putting a link to this tutorial, whenever you display your realization of that tag on a website, on a group or in a mail !

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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE

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To realize that tag, you'll need the filters AP 01 ( innovations) ,  VM Extravaganza

and the material zip here

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*It is forbidden to suppress watermarks on the material provided , to alter, mist or rename the tubes in order to respect the work of the tubers

- The elements of scrap come from Mucki's site here  

- The tubes of the woman and of the Eiffel Tower are by Guismo

You'll find some of her tubes on Dakara's site here

You'll be able to get her tubes by joining in her sharing group here

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Preparation

Duplicate your tubes and background. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now.

Put your selection in your selection folder

Export your brush in your Psp as a custom brush

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Click here to print the tutorial

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You can use my arrow to follow your work

 

1- Open a white new image of 800 by 650 pixels

2- Effects / plugins / AF 01 / Lines- silverlining / as below :

3- Add a new raster layer and select all

4- Open the paper "papier carreaux"  and paste it into the selection

Select none

You may colorize that layer if you wish

4- Image / resize at 60 %

5- Effects / image effects  / seamless tiling default

6- Add a new raster layer

Selections / load from disk / choose "selectionpassion" / check Source luminance and Replace the selection

7- Set your foreground with a linear gradient, angle and repeat at 0, Invert NOT checked

with the light colour : ff8687 in your foreground

and the dark colour : a5111f in your background

8- With your flood fill tool, set as below , flood fill the selection with that gradient

Select none

9- Layers / duplicate

Image /free rotation / right / 90 °

Place that vertical band , on the left hand side of your tag

10- Open the tube cal-guis-paris1 or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / mirror

Move that tube towards the right hand side of your tag

11- Open the tube "coeur" or a heart tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / resize at 60 %

Place the heart as shown on my tag

Set the mode of that layer to Dodge  

12- Open the tube of the woman "cal-guis- elegantered 3112008" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / resize at 75 %; Adjust / sharpness / sharpen

Place the tube in the left hand side corner of your tag

13- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 20, black

14- Add a new raster layer

Apply the brush Beautiful or a brush of your choice (set as below ) with a right click in order to use your background colour ( red for me )

Place the brush to your liking

15- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 5, black

16- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature

17- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel with your background colour

18- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 40 pixels in white

19- Select this border with your magic wand set as below :

20- Effects / plugins / VM Extravaganza / Transmission default

21- Selections / invert

22- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 5, black   / and - 4  horiz and vertical

Select none

23- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel with your background colour

24- Open the tube "noeud" or a bow tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / resize my tube at 50 %; règlages / netteté / netteté

Place the tube on the bottom right hand side or your tag

25- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 40, 20, black

26- Open the tube "coeur gris", copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / resize at 50 %; Adjust / sharpness / sharpen

Place the small heart on the bow as shown on my tag

27-Open the tube "déco feuilles" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer 

Place that tube as shown on my tag

Set the mode of that layer to Multiply and lower its opacity to about 80

28- Merge all and save your work as a jpeg file

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That's it !! You've done it !!

If you 've enjoyed doing my tutorial, it would be nice to write a few words in my guest book ! If you 've had the slightest problem, please, send me a mail so I can see to the problem !

Tutorial translated on the   28th of december 2009

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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE