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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Tubes of choice. I'm using the fantast art of Keith Garvey. You can purchase his art from
My PSP Tubes
MuRa's Meister/Perspective Tiling
Eye Candy 4000 - Bevel Boss
Eye Candy 5 - Extrude
Mask by Becky -
Here
Pattern of choice
Open a new
canvas of 700x700, flood filled with white. Paste your
pattern as a new layer. I've chosen a tartan pattern to
match the kilt of one of my tubes. Try and find a pattern to
suite your tubes. I found mine on a Google search for tartan
patterns. Resize your pattern so it fills your canvas.
Apply MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling with these settings.

Paste your tubes as new layers, Position to your liking.
Duplicate each tube, and on the original go to Adjust/Brightness
and Contrast, and apply the following settings.

Using your Pick tool, and shift key, deform
your black image so it lays level with the pattern background.
Add a gaussian blur of 5, and lower the opacity to 79. Move
your shadow to position under the feet. If one sticks out,
use your selection tool to select the overhang, and hit delete.
Back on your tubes, add a the following drop shadow.

Hide your background and pattern and merge
visible. Unhide the layers, and activate the pattern layer.
Apply the mask supplied, and merge group. If you have used
the same tubes as I have, you make want to resize your mask layer.
I've resized by 90%. Position your mask layer
and merged tubes towards the top of the canvas.
Take your circle preset to, vector, with
background to null. Draw out a circle around the first
circle of your mask. We are going to add text in the first
circle. Once you have your circle in place, add a new layer,
hover your text tool over the circle until the icon curves, click,
and write out your text. I wrote 'Mess
with us, and we'll introduce you to our friends. Pain &
Punishment!' Make your font size big enough so it sits
nicely within the outer circle. Move it around until it sits
evenly on both sided. Convert to raster, and add the same
drop shadow used before.
Next we'll make your name plate. Take
your rectangle preset, foreground to null, background on a metal
gradient, angle 47, repeat 2. Draw out a rectangle below
your tubes, under your circled text. Apply Eye Candy Bevel
Boss, settings 'Outer Bevel', Darken Deep Areas set to 100.
Duplicate twice, to get rid of the transparent edging, and merge
these three plates together. Add the drop shadow.
Now add your name in a thick font. I'm
using Army Expanded. Foreground null, and background white.
Drag it out to fit the plate. Convert to raster. Apply
Eye Candy 5 Extrude with these settings.

Add the same drop shadow. Resize your tag
to the desired size, add your copyright, the crop the image.
Save as a jpeg. I 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 31st December 2007 by Faerie Queen. |