Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro.

Filters Needed:  DSB Flux Bright Noise

                           Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow (For Text)

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. 

Supplies -  Supplies include the star mask created by me and star bows by Rainbow Coffi.  The full collection of Rainbow Coffi's wonderful images is housed at PSP Playground.  Anyone can join, free of charge.  To view and obtain Rainbow Coffi's superb graphic tubes, do join PSP Playground, where Rainbow Coffi's and many other wonderful artist tubes are shared.

Step 1

Open a new transparent image 600 width by 675 height and flood fill with white.

Step 2

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer

Open the star mask and the tube graphic you will be using.   At the Material Palette, in the top color box, select a deep, dark color from your graphic that will be the main color of your tag.  If you select a color too light, the stars from the mask will not be noticeable. The darker the color, the better.

Flood fill this layer with that color.

Step 3

Go to Layers/New Mask Layer from Image.  At the drop down window, select starmaskits, have source luminance checked and invert mask data checked.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Group.

Step 4

Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make your tag graphic 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.

Step 5

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

Step 6

Open up the Rainbow Coffi ribbons and with your selection tool select one that will work with your tag.  Copy and paste the ribbon as a new layer on your tag.  If you wish to resize it smaller, follow the resize instructions in Step 4.

Step 7

Add your copyright information to the tag.

Step 8

Once you have all the elements (except the text, which will be added later), go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).  DO NOT GO TO LAYERS/MERGE/MERGE VISIBLE.

Step 9

Left click the magic wand, using the settings from above, and left click the magic wand on the 3 sets of three stars located at the top portion of the tag. 

Go to Layers/Duplicate.  Do this once more so you now have a total of three layers.  DO NOT DESELECT.

Step 10

Open up your layer palette and go to Layer 1. 

Go to Effects/Plug-ins DSB Flux/Bright Noise and use these settings:

Intensity 50 and Mix checked. DO NOT DESELECT.

Step 11

Open up your layer palette and go to Layer 2.

Go to Effects/Plug-ins DSB Flux/Bright Noise and apply the same settings as in Step 10 but do it two times.  DO NOT DESELECT

Step 12

Open up your layer palette and go to Layer 3.

Go to Effects/Plug-ins DSB Flux/Bright Noise and apply the same settings as in Step 10 but do it three times.

Go to Selections/Select None.

Step 13

Save your tag file as a psp or psd file but do not close it yet.  Leave it open.

CREATING THE TEXT FILE

Step 1

On your tag file go to Layers/New Raster Layer and type in your text. Do not add a stroke to your text because we will be adding the Eye Candy gradient glow.

Go to Edit/Copy and go to Edit/Paste as New Image.

If you used vector text, be sure to go to Layers/Convert to Raster Layer.

Step 2

Go to Image/Canvas Size and for width 400 and height, make it 200. This will leave you enough room for a text that is longer in length.

Close the tag file and we will continue working on the text file.

Step 3

Go to Effects/Plugins/EyeCandy 4000/Gradient Glow and use these settings:

Click on Basic and where it says Glow Width, move the slider to 3.00 (the smallest)

Soft Corners 25%

Overall Opacity 100%

Draw Only Outside Selection checked.

Click on Color and at the drop down menu, click on fat, and click ok.

Step 4

Go to Selections/Select All

Go to Selections/Float

Go to Selections/Defloat

Step 5

Go to Layers/Duplicate and do this two times so you now have three layers.

Step 6

Repeat Steps 10, 11 and 12 under CREATING THE TAG but change the intensity to 32.

Step 7

Save this file as a psp or psd file.  You should now have two files.  The first file you saved was your tag file and this one you are now saving is your text file.

We will finish the tag in animation shop.  Click here to continue.