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 make that tag, you'll need the material zip here (two masks, a brush and the two tubes I've used) but you can use your own tubes

*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 Lori Rhae and the tube of the city is by Silke

Thanks to both of them

They both share their tubes in this group here

Open your Psp, open the tubes and the masks, duplicate them, close the originals and minimize the copies for now. Put the brush in your brushes folder

Now, we're ready to start !

1- Open a new black image of 700 by 500 pixels

2- Add a new layer and flood fill it with white

3- Open the tube of the city and merge all layers in order to make a picture with a white background that you'll use as a mask. Minimize it.

Go back to your tag :

Rasters / new mask layer / from picture / choose the picture you've just made / check source luminance

Merge group and merge down

4- Rasters / new mask layer / from picture / choose mask 181/ check source luminance

Merge the group

5- Add a new raster layer

Flood fill it with a bright colour of your tube ( I've chosen purple :834fe9)

6-Rasters / new mask layer / from picture / choose mask dmsk 0532 / check source luminance

Merge the group

7-Layers / arrange / move down

8-Add a new raster layer and fill flood it with black

9- Layers / arrange / move down

You should have that now :

10- Merge all

11-Set your foreground with a bright colour ( I have chosen a bright red)

Add a new layer

Activate the brush tool and choose brush malu 47

Apply the brush (size 500, step 32, density and opacity at 100)

Place the dotted line as shown above on my tag

12- Optional : Effects / 3D effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 100, 1, black

13- Add a new raster

Switch your bright colour to the background (bright red for me ), close your foreground

Activate the text tool and write your message : Going to (town / the sea /on holiday....or any other message )

Use a font of your choice

14- Effects / Distortion effects / waves or use the deformation tool if you prefer to make your letters dance !

Optional : Effects / 3D effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 100, 1, black

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

Resize it to your liking ( I resized mine at 70 %)

Adjust /sharpeness / sharpen

Place the tube of the woman as shown on my tag

16- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 12, 50, 5, black

17- Add a new layer and sign

18-Image / add new symetrical borders of 1 pixel in white or in a colour of your choice.

19- Save as a jpeg file

That's 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 !

Translation done on the 20th of july 2008

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