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 :

- Filter Factory Gallery D / Legolator, Shouting, Infini tiles

- Transparency / Eliminate white

- Filters Unlimited 2.0

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 tubes of the woman and of the poppies are by Guismo

You'll be able to find her tubes on Dakara' s site here

and you can join in her sharing group here

 - The brush "Celestial_Forms_Brushes_Ps is by Coby17

The other elements have been found on the net

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Preparation

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

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

 

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1- Open a new transparent image of 800 by 650 pixels and select all .

2- Activate the image "coquelicots-bleuets-364290.jpg" or a picture assorted to the colours of your tubes, copy it and paste it into the selection

Select none

3- Adjust / Blur / radial blur  as below :

4- Effects / edge effects / enhance more

5- Layers / duplicate

6- Effects / plugins / Filter Factory Gallery D / Legolator  default

7- Effects / plugins / Filter Factory Gallery D /Shouting  default

8- Effects / plugins / Transparency / Eliminate white

9- Effects /plugins / Filter Factory Gallery D / Infini tiles default

( 6, 2, 0, 0 )

10- Image / mirror

11- Effects / 3d effects / Inner bevel as below :

12- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow as follows with a dark colour of your background  (green 5d5d30 for me)

13-  Activate your background layer which is at the bottom of your pile of layers 

Effects / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Paper textures / Canvas fine / 156, 87

14- Add a new raster layer

Set your foreground with a light colour from one of your tubes

I have chosen the cream colour : fbf4d1

15- Activate your brush tool, set as below and choose the brush "Celestial_Forms_Brushes_Ps.PspBrush" or a brush of your choice

Apply that brush in the center of your tag with your light colour ( left clic  )

16- Edit / copy

Edit / Paste as a new layer

Your brush is now right in the center of your tag !

Delete your previous layer where you applied the brush in the first instance !!

17- Effects / image effects  / seamless tiling default

I have set the mode of that layer to Dodge and lowered its opacity to 50

( It is up to you to see , what looks better, according to the colours you have chosen !)

18- Activate your top layer

Add a new raster layer

Activate your text tool, set as below and choose the font Automatica BRK or a font of your choice

Set your foreground with a colour assorted to your tag and close your background

I have chosen the contrasting colour : purple 4c4365

Write down the word GUISMO or a word of your choice , in capital letters, in the top right hand side corner of your tag

Select none

19- Activate your bottom layer ( your background )

Edit / copy

20- Go back to your top layer ( where you have written your word )

With your magic wand , set as below , select the inner part of each of your letters of your word, while keeping the shift key pressed 

21- Add a new raster layer

Edit / paste into the selection ( the copy of your background which is still in memory )

Select none

22- Layers / arrange / move down

23- Activate the top layer

Layers / merge down

24- Repeat steps 11 and 12 on the layer where your word is ( Guismo for me )

Place the word to your liking

25- Add a new raster layer

Close your foreground and set your background with a light colour out of your tag

I have chosen the colour  : EFCC94

With your text tool , set as previously but with the font Satisfaction, size 72 or a fancy font of your choice, write down , in small letters, the word "séverine" or a word of your choice

Select none

Place the word to your liking

* STEPS 26 AND 27 ARE OPTIONNAL! *

26- Ajouter un nouveau calque

With your text tool , set as previously but with the font  Mistral, taille 36 and the same background colour , write down "Gentils coquelicots" or a sentence of your choice

Select none

Place the word to your liking

I have set the mode of that layer on Overlay

It is up to you to choose what goes better with your colours

27- Add a new raster layer

With your text tool , set as previously but with the fontArial Black , taille 24 and the same background colour , write down "Nouveaux"or a sentence of your choice

Select none

Place to your liking

I have set the mode of that layer to Exclusion

It is up to you to choose what goes better with your colours

28- Activate the tube "calguiscoquelicot2210.pspimage" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Place the tube as shown on my tag or to your liking

29- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow of your choice / 4, 15, 40, 20, black for me

30- Activate the tube " calguisdamechampetre22610.pspimage"or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Place the tube as shown on my tag or to your liking

31- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow of your choice / 4, 15, 40, 20, black for me

32- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature

33- Make sure everything is in the right place

Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel with a colour of your choice

My choice : dark colour 372710  

34- Layers / Promote Background layer

35- Image / resize at 90 °% (Resize all the layers NOT checked )

36- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / 0, 0, 100, 40, black

37- Add a new raster layer and select all

Layers / arrange / move down

38- Activate your image ( step 2) , copy it and paste it into the selection

Select none

39- Adjust / Blur / gaussien blur at 40

40- Effects / plugins / Filter Factory Gallery D / Infini tiles default

( 6, 2, 0, 0 )

41- Effects /edge effects / enhance

42- Add a new raster layer

Apply in the center of that layer  , the brush used on step 15 ( same settings ), with white or a light colour

43- Adjust / Blur / radial blur as on step 3

44- Effects / image effects  / seamless tiling default

Set the mode of that layer to Dodge ( opacity at 100 for me )

It is up to you to see which mode and which opacity look better with your colours

45- Effects / edge effects  / enhance more

46- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel with a colour of your choice

My choice : dark colour 372710

47- Save your work as a jpeg file and resize it 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  2nd of july 2010

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