Autumn Tag

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. 

Tube of Choice  -  For this tutorial, I used a delightful image created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Accessories - Autumn Scene Template using the clipart from Microsoft Clipart Media, a  autumn tree tubed by me, again using clipart from Microsoft and the tree animation, also from Microsoft Clipart Media, a wonderful place for graphics!

Please remember, when creating your signature tags, to only use permission art and to apply the copyright information on the tag.  If  you have purchased a commercial image, do add your license number as well.

**When creating your Signature tags with Paint Shop Pro, do remember to save continually.  Nothing worse than to use up your memory resources and lose everything!**

SETTING USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Drop Shadow Settings:

Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80 Blur 5, Color Black

 

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up the autumn scene template and your tube graphic.  Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the autumn scene template active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  If your image is too large, go to Image/Resize, using the percent option, bicubic and resize all Layers Not checked.

Step 2

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above.

Step 3

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Open up the autumn tree.  Copy and paste on the outer area of your template.

Step 4

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Add your text and apply the same drop shadow as in Step 2.

Step 5

Go to Layer/New Raster Layer and add your copyright information and licensing information, if applicable.

Go to Layer/Merge/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 6

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 80%, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Step 7

Save this file as a psp or psd file.  We will finish the animation in animation shop.  Click here to continue...