Holy Cow!

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 - Pasture template made using a graphic image from Microsoft Clipart Media - a great place for graphics, cow fill for the text and the very cute cow animation.

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 pasture template.  Go to Image/Add Borders and when the border selection window opens up, select a color for your border with symmetric checked and border width 5.

Step 2

Open up the tube graphic you will be using and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the pasture tag active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  If the image is too large, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked.  Left click the mover tool and move your image all the way to the right side of the tag, leaving room to add the cow animation later. 

Step 3

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

Step 4

If your image has dulled due to the resizing, go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

Step 5

Go to Layer/New Raster Layer.

Open up the cow fill texture.  In the top color box, make it black.  Left click the bottom color box and when the color selection window opens up, select pattern.  Left click the down arrow and locate the cow fill pattern with angle set to 0 and scale set to 100.

Select a nice larger sized font with the stroke set to about 2.5 and add your text.

Step 6

Repeat Step 3.

Step 7

Add your copyright information and license number, if applicable.  Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All Flatten and save the file as a psp or psd file.

We will add the cow animation in Animation Shop.  Click here to continue.