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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 Distort here, Graphic plus, Alien skin Eye Candy 5 / Impact
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 JHanna
- The tube of the scenery is by Aclis
You'll be able to get their tubes by joining in their sharing group here
- The tube of the flowers is by Psp4you
The mask "1217491287_masques.jpg" is by Reveries
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Preparation
Duplicate your tubes and your mask. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now.
Put the texture in your textures folder
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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 : light colour 8c6fb7 
Background : dark colour, black for me
3- Flood fill your transparent layer with your background colour ( right click !)
4- Layers / duplicate
Image / resize at 75% ( Resize all the layers NOT checked !!)
5- Effects /texture effects /Blinds as below with your foreground colour:

6- Effects / plugins / Distort / Turn your inside outside / 100
With you select tool, select the geometrical shape which appears in the middle and hit delete to suppress it. Select none
7- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow of your choice (I have put 4, 4, 50, 20 and repeated with - 4 vert and horiz)
I have slightly lowered the opacity of that layer ( 90)
8- Activate the bottom layer, layer raster 1
Open the tube Aclis Paisaje or a tube of your choice ( scenery, intérior, flowers etc...) matching your main tube, copy it and paste it as a new layer
9- Activate now the layer Copy of Raster 1 ( the one on which we applied the filter Distort on step 6)
Open the tube Bloempurple_psp4you or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place the tube to your liking
10- Add a new raster layer and flood fill it with your foreground colour
11- Your mask 1217491287_masques.jpg is open in your Psp
On that mask : Image / flip and Image / Mirror
Layers / new mask layer / from image / choose 1217491287_masques.jpg / check Source Luminance and Invert
Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more
Merge group
12- If you prefer, you may drag your center tube ( the flowers for me ) on top of your mask
13- Activate your top layer if you are not on it yet
Open the tube of the girl by JHanna or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
I have resized the tube at 75%
Place that tube in the bottom right hand corner of your tag
You may add a drop shadow of your choice if you feel like it
My tube being misted , I didn't add a drop shadow to it
14- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with your foreground colour or a colour of your choice
15- Effects / image effects / page curl as below :
with your foreground colour and the main colour of your center tube :
colour 944572
for me
16- Layers / Promote Background layer
17- Image / resize at 90% ( Resize all the layers NOT checked )
18- With your freehand selection tool, seélect the bottom right hand corner of your tag as below :

Hit the key delete
Select none
19 - Effects / Alien skin Eye candy 5/ Impact / Perspective shadow / drop shadow blurry, default as below :

20-Add a new raster layer
Layers / arrange / move down
21- Set your foreground with the colour out of your main central tube, used on step 15 ( colour dark pind 944572 for me )
Flood fill your new transparent layer with that colour
22- Effects / plugins / Graphic plus / Cross shadow default
23- Add a new raster layer
In your material palette, set your background as below
Your background is set with the dark colour used on step 2 ( black for me)
Click on Texture as shown below

Choose Textureeauzonelib11
24- Flood fill your new layer with that texture
It's up to you to see if you want to change the mode of your layer ; I have left mine as it is
25- Add a new raster layer and flood fill it with a very light colour out of your tubes
I have chosen the pale pink of my flowers : colour f6e1f4
26- Your mask Sc-edge026 is open in your Psp !
Image / Rotate Right ( your mask will be then horizontal )
27- Layers / new mask layer / choose the mask Sc-edge026 / only check Source Luminance
Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more
Layers / Merge group
28- Set the mode of that layer to Dodge and lower its opacity to your liking
I have lowered it at 57
29- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature
30- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with a colour of your choice ( I have chosen a bright pink CD5A9B
Image / add some symmetrical borders of 10 pixels with your background colour ( without texture )
Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with a colour of your choice ( I have chosen a bright pink CD5A9B
31- 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 have the slightest problem, please, send me a mail so I can see to the problem !
Tutorial translated on the 7th of november 2009
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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE
