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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
3 compatible images or tubes
Mask
created by CazG (thank you Caz for your permission) -
Here
Word brush. The one I'm using is from
Agi brush set 50
Script font of choice
Open a new
canvas, floodfilled with white, 600 x 500. I'm using two
images and a central tube. Copy and paste both images onto
your blank canvas. Position them either side of the canvas.
Try having your main feature of the image facing into the centre.
With your
overlapping image layer active, take your selection tool, set to
freehand, feather 30. Select around the hard straight edge
of the overlapping image. We are doing this freehand as we
don't want a straight edge, but a uneven one. If you prefer
to work straight, then use 'point to point' same feather settings.
Hit delete a couple of times. Once you are happy with the
amount you have removed, select none.
Copy and paste
your central tube or image. If using an image, follow the
previous step to remove the background so that you have your
central feature. Position in the centre of the canvas, and
lower the opacity to about 33, or whatever feels right to you.
Hide your background layer, merge visible.
Duplicate the
merged layer once. On the original layer, go to Effect/Edge
Effect/Enhance. Then change the blend mode on the duplicated
layer to Darker. Merge visible again.
Duplicate the
merged layer again. Hide the copy, and activate the
original. Go to Effect/Artist Effect/Brush Strokes with the
following settings. Or play around until you are happy with
the settings.

Unhide the copy merged layer and change the
blend mode to Luminance. Your image should now have glowing
outlines. Merge visible once more, and then unhide your
white background.
Next load your chosen mask if not using the one
supplied. Layers/ Load/Save Mask/ Load Mask from Disk.
Your chosen settings. Merge group.
Duplicate this layer, and on the original we
are going to apply a blur. You can use any blur you like,
but I'm going to use motion blur. Go to Adjust/Blur/Motion
Blur angle 90, strength 50. Repeat 3 more times, changing
the angle by 90 each time, last one being 0.
Take your eclipse preset tool, foreground
black, background null. Line width 3. Draw out a small
circle. See my finished tag. Convert to raster.
Then draw out another smaller circle. Convert this to
raster. Position them to your liking. Add a new
layer below one of your circles. Click on your clone tool
, with
these settings.

Active your image layer, hover your clone tool
over the part you want to appear in the circle, right click to
select. Active the new raster layer under the chosen circle,
and left click in the centre, and move your mouse to fill it.
Don't worry about going out of it. Next activate the
circle itself, with your magic wand, select in the centre.
Go to Selections/Modify/Expand by 2. Activate the layer you
cloned, invert, hit delete, select none. Then Adjust/Hue and
Saturation/Colorize, both set to 0. Repeat with the other
circle, starting with a new layer under the other circle.
On the second one I adjusted the brightness to
lighten it up a bit. Next on each circle as a drop shadow of
Horizontal and Vertical = 0, Opacity = 50, Blur = 10, colour black.
Then merge them down to the greyed images.
New raster layer. Select your word brush,
using a light colour from your image, click where you would like
the wording to be on your tag. Add the same drop shadow as
you did to the circles, but change the colour to a shade darker
than the one used for the brush.
Add your copyright information, and your name
in a script font.
I'm using Bonheur Royale, which is a pay font. Use black,
foreground set to null. Position the layer above the word
brush layer, but positioned underneath.
Hide your white background layer. Select
your crop tool, and click on Merge Opaque.

Double click on your image to crop. Unhide your background,
and save as a jpeg or png.
You are done. Hope you enjoyed this
tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for
your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put
on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission. Any
resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely
coincidental. Thank you. This tutorial was
written on the 19th April 2008 by Faerie Queen.
First Place
Winner of The Zone Groups Tutorial Contest May 2008 |