ON THE FARM

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 - Farm Template colorized by me using the clipart from Microsoft Clipart Media, a great place for graphics, goose graphic tubed and colorized by me, and rooster animation, again using clipart from Microsoft Clipart Media.

Optional - Any fun farm graphic animals, whether static or animation to add to the tag.

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!**

SETTINGS 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 farm template and your tube graphic.  Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the farm template 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 2

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

Step 3

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Open up your goose graphic provided or you can use your own animal graphics.  Copy and paste the goose tube on your template and resize, if necessary.  If you wish to add the same drop shadow, do so now.

Step 4

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add any additional farm images you would like for your tag.

Step 5

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add your text and add the same drop shadow as you did before.

Step 6

Go to Layer/New Raster Layer and add your copyright information and licensing information, if applicable.

Go to Layer/Merge/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 7

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Step 8

Go to Layers/Duplicate. Do this 3 more times so you now have 5 layers.

Save your tag as a psp or psd file.  We will add the rooster in animation shop.  Click here to continue.