Sheep's in the Meadow

 

 

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 - Meadow graphic tube template created from a Microsoft Clipart Media image - a great place for graphics, Sheep animation and two butterflies.  The butterfly images and many more wonderful animations can be found at Peachies Collection of Cute Stuff.

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 meadow template and go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the drop shadow setting from above.

Step 2

Open up your tube graphic and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the meadow template 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 3

Repeat Step 1 applying the drop shadow.

Step 4

Add your text to the tag and your copyright information as well as license information, if applicable.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Save this file as a psp or psd file.  We will add the sheep and butterflies in animation shop.  Click here to continue.