Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro any version.

Tube of Choice -  The tube images I am using were created from the artwork of David Stribbling.   To view David Stribbling's extraordinary wildlife online  gallery, click here.

The jungle grass background, palm tree mask and jaguar animation can be downloaded here.

Font of Choice.

 Step 1

Open a new transparent image 600 width by 500 height. Flood fill the transparency with green #22700a.

Step 2

Open the palm tree mask and go to Layers/New Mask Layer from Image.  At the source window, locate the Palm tree mask file and have source luminance and inverted checked. Click ok.

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Group.

Step 3

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply a drop shadow using the settings above or your own favorite ones.

Step 4

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Open up the jungle grass file.  At the Material Palette, left click the top color box and when the color selection window opens, click pattern with angle 0 and scale 100.  Click the drop down menu and locate the jungle grass file.

Step 5

Left click the selection tool and set it to rectangle with mode Add/Shift, Feather 0 and Anti-Alias checked.  Going from left to right and down, draw a rectangle inside the entire tag, just a little bit beneath the tag's border - like this.

Step 6

Flood fill this selection with the jungle grass pattern. DO NOT DESELECT.

Step 7

Go to Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom.  Go to Selections/Select None.

Step 8

Open your layer palette and you should see the following:

Raster 1 Layer at the bottom

Above Raster 1 is the Group-Raster 1 Layer.

Make sure you are on the Raster 1 Layer at the bottom.

Step 9

Open up your animal graphic and go to Edit/Copy. Make your tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  Your image should now be placed so that it is under the foliage.  If your image is too large, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked.

Step 10

Repeat Step 3 - applying a drop shadow.

Step 11

If you wish to add a second animal graphic, repeat Steps 9 and 10 and do be sure that all the graphics you add to your tag are by the same artist.

Step 12

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 13

Go to Layer/New Raster Layer and apply your text and copyright information. 

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. 

Step 14

Crop off any excess palette not being used and go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and this resize all layers checked. Save this file in psp or psd format.

We will finish up the tag in animation shop.

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