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 plugins :

- VM Toolbox

- Murameister

- Mura's seamless

- Alien skin Eye Candy 5 / Impact

- Penta com

and the material zip down below :

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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 tube of the woman is by Katussia

You can join in her sharing group here

- The tube of the sheep and the star is by Kikirou

You can join in her sharing group here

The other elements have been found on the net

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Preparation

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

- Put the mask in your masks folder.

- Put the file formes Weitere formen.jsl in your preset shapes folder

- Put the selection in your selection folder

- Export   the file perle.psp as a picture tube in your psp

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Click here to print the tutorial

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You can use my arrow to follow your work

 

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

2- Set your material palette with two colours out of your main tube

My choice : Foreground : colour f2b9e6

Background : white (or a very light or luminous colour )

3- Flood fill your transparent layer with your foreground colour

4- Effects / plugins / VM Toolbox / Motion trail wild as below

Do that effect twice

5- Add a new raster layer and swap your background and foreground colour ( for me, white will be then in my foreground)

6- Activate the preset shape tool, set as below and choose the shape Nova 4; apply that shape in the middle of your tag starting from the top left hand corner of your tag

Edit / copy and Edit / paste as a new layer ( that will put your shape right in the middle of your tag ). you can now delete the previous layer where your shape isn't quite in the middle !

*** If you prefer , you can use my forme_daydream_fairymist and paste it as a new layer ( you may colorize it or change the mode of the layer )

7- Now, set your foreground in black and your background with a colour of your choice ( I have chosen the colour b90531

( it's up to you to find the right colours for your stars !)

Now, set your foreground with a linear gradient , angle 45, repeats at 0, Invert NOT checked

8- Activate your symmetric shape tool,  set as below and choose the shape star

Draw a little star in the middle of the tag ( similar size to my star )

You may choose to use my star enclosed in the zip if you wish !

9- Layers / convert to raster layer

10- Effects / plugins / Murameister / copies as below

11- Add a new raster layer

Set your foreground with a bright colour out of your main tube

(I have chosen that bright pink e92b67 )

Flood fill that layer with that colour

12- Layers / load a mask from disk / choose Brujita_ mask_0025 :

Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more

Layers / merge group

13- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 100, 2, colour f57ea2 for me

14- Effects / plugins / Mura's seamless / Emboss at alpha default

15- Open the tube nuage_daydream , copy it and paste it as a new layer

Place it as on my tag

Set the mode of that layer to Luminance Legacy !

16- Activate your clone brush ( hit letter C to activate it ) and set it as below !

1- Apply your clone brush on the left part of the cloud ( n° 1 below ) and right clic on it

2- Now, stay on the same layer and apply you clone brush a little further on the left ( n° 2 below ) and left click while your pull your brush towards the left ( that will create another cloud as on my picture below !)

17- Open the tube Kikirou 915 good night or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

( I have only used a part of that tube; activate the layer 3 and with your freehand selection tool, select the sheep with the star; copy it and paste that selection as a new layer

Place the tube at the top of your tag, on the clouds as on my tag

Resize that tube at 75 %

19- With you freehand selection, set as below , select the outside of the yellow star that we are going to colorize

* you may use the Zoom to see the lines better ( Hit the letter Z)

- Selections / modify / expand by 2 pixels

- Adjust / Hue and saturation / colorize / 126, 115 ( I have chosen to colorize in turquoise because I have a little turquoise in my main tube !)

- Select none !

Lower the opacity of that layer to 75

20- Effects /3d effects / 1, 1, 40, 15, noir

21- Open the tube KTs-Maria_Parrish or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

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

I have resized my tube at 90 %

22- With the clone brush , I have copied the pink flower which is on the bottom left hand corner of my tube and I have cloned it on the bottom right hand corner of that tube 

Add a drop shadow of your choice to the whole tube

23- Add a new raster layer

Selections / load selection from disk / choose Selection_daydream_fairymist / check Replace the selection and Source Luminance 

Flood fill that selection with a colour of your choice ( the color doesn't matter because it's just going to be a support to draw the corners and that layer will be delete later on !

Select none

24- Add a new raster layer

Activate your picture tube tool set as below, choose the picture tube perle

Apply a first pearl in the corner of your painted shaper ( as shown below : n° 1 )

Press the shift key , keep it pressed and apply another pearl as shown on n°2 below

Do that again to cover your horizontal line with pearls

Set the mode of that layer to Luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 75

Add a light drop shadow ( 1, 1, 40, 15, black )

Delete the layer used on step 23

25- Layers / duplicate

Image / mirror

Image / flip

26- Open the tube texte_daydream_fairymist or a text of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Place the text as on my tag

27- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature

28- Make sure everything is in its place

Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels, with a bright colour ( ca225c for me )

29- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 40 pixels with a pale colour ( f6a6d0 for me )

30- With your magic wand, set as below , select that border of 40 pixels width

Effects / plugins / Pentacom / Dot and cross / 72, 10, 2

31- Selections / Invert

Effects / plugins / Alien skin Eye candy 5 / impact / Perspective shadow / Drop shadow blurry   default, as below :

Selections / select none

32- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels, with a bright colour ( ca225c for me )

33- Save your work as a jpeg file and resize if necessary

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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 4th of september 2009

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