Nature Muse

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 - Landscape Valley psp graphic created from an image from Microsoft Clipart Media - a great place for graphics and animated dove.

Flower Accents.  The one I used was created by Rainbow Coffi. The full collection of Rainbow Coffi's wonderful tube images is housed at PSP Playground.  Anyone can join, free of charge. 

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 Landscape Valley psp file.

Step 2

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

Step 3

Open up your tube graphic and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag 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 4

Repeat Step 2.

Step 5

Open up your floral graphic and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag template active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. If the image is too large, resize as you did in Step 3.

Step 6

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add your text. Apply the same drop shadow as you did in Step 2 but change the color to white.

Step 7

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and apply your copyright information as well as license information, if applicable.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 8

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

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