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. Mura Pro Copies Filter. Accessories - Bridge Graphic and Daisies Graphic from Microsoft Clipart Media, a great 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 Step 2 Make the daisyring graphic active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the transparent image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. Step 3 Go to Effects/Plugins/Mura's Meister/Copies and select encircle with the default settings. Step 4 Open up the bridge graphic and go to Edit/Copy. Make the daisy circle image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. Go to Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom. Step 5 Open up the layer palette and go to the Layer that has the daisy ring (the top Layer) and left click the raster deform tool. You will see after applying this tool, the daisy ring is surrounded by nodes on the top, bottom left and right. What you will do is left click your mouse button on one of the nodes on one of the sides of the image. Holding down that left mouse button, pull the side outward. Do that to the other side, as well. Now left click the mouse button on the top and bottom nodes and also pull them outward. Continue doing this so that the daisy ring covers the entire outside area of the bridge graphic. Step 6 Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above. Step 7 Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. Step 8 Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 60%, Bicubic and Resize all Layers checked. Step 9 Go to Image/Canvas Size and for width use 600 and for height 550. This should give you enough room for the circular text and copyright information. Step 10 Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag image 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 11 Add your copyright information but leave room for the circular text on the top and bottom.
Adding Circular Text Step
1 Now draw a large ellipse around the entire outside border of your tag by holding down your left mouse button, and starting your circle at the top left, and moving right and down, to complete the circle. It is very important that you
use this direction. otherwise when applying your text, it will not be the same
as what is shown here. Go to Layer/New Raster Layer
Step 7 Open up your layer palette and
convert the layer that has your text (it is now a vector layer) to a raster
layer. We will now add the text to
the bottom of the ellipse. Finishing the Tag Step 1 Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). Step 2 If you want to resize your graphic smaller, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers checked. Step 3 If you want a little added decoration, resize the daisy circle psp file and add to your tag. Save your tag as a jpg. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Purrs, Nikki, Nichie and Sue
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