You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Van De Lee Camouflage
Here
Military Mini Kit by Monti
Here
Mask created by CazG (thank you Caz for your permission) and my Word Art
Here
Tube of choice. I'm using Elias Chatzoutis who is a pay to
use artist with
My PSP Tubes
Font of choice or the one I used Ver Army
Here
Open you tube of choice, and Monti's Military Mini Kit.
Install Van De Lee's Camouflage into your plugins folder.
Then open a new canvas of 600 x 600 with a white background.
New layer, flood fill with white again, and apply VDL Adrenaline
Camouflage with the following settings:
Change the colours to match your tube. I've just chosen
three colours for mine. Adjust/Blur/Blur, then add the
mask provided. Resize the mask layer by 85%. Merge
group and add the following drop shadow:
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, and add a drop
shadow of V- -5, H - 10, Opacity - 35 and Blur - 8.
Position the tube over to the right hand side.
Select your rectangle shape tool, with the foreground set to
null and the back ground set to a light colour from your
camouflage draw out a rectangle. Convert to raster layer.
Take your magic wand and select the rectangle you have just
done. Selections/Modify/Contract, contract by 10.
Invert and apply the same camouflage effect you added before.
Still selected add the following drop shadow:
Select none and apply the shadow again.
Copy the small dog tags from Monti's kit, and resize by 95%.
Position them to your liking. Now we are going to remove
some of the chain so it looks like it is linked in our mask, and
one of the tags so it looks like it is hanging behind the
rectangle. Zoom into this, lower the opacity of the layer,
so you can see the mask through it, and using your lasso tool,
select the section to be deleted and hit delete. Put your
opacity back to 100, and select none, then add the same drop
shadow. You may need to touch up in the places you've just
deleted if the shadow hangs over the end and doesn't look right.
I had to do the bit that over hangs the rectangle.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and position to the
right. Add the same shadow as before. I'm deleting a
part of the leg so that it looks like she has stepped over the
rectangle shape.
Add my Word Art below the dog tags. Rotate by 13 to the
left and add a drop shadow, changing the opacity to 45.
Next using your choice of font, or the one suggested and a
dark colour from your tube, type out your name, and stretch out
to fit the space in the rectangle box. Convert to raster
and add the last drop shadow used.
Resize now as desired, add your copyright and crop.
Save as a jpeg. You are done. I hope you enjoyed
this tutorial.
