Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro any version. 

Tubes of Choice (2)  - One stationary Image and One fading image.

For this tutorial, I used the delightful images of Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her delightful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc.

Accessories - Animated star wand, Do You Believe in Magic psp file and Nightsky Font.  To use the Night Sky font, just open it up through Windows Explorer and minimize.  When ready to use, left click the text tool and locate the font at the drop down font menu.

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 Setting:

Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80 Blur 5, Color Black

 

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up a new transparent image 700 width by 600 height and open up the Main Stationary tube graphic. Make the tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the transparency active and go to Edit/paste as New Layer.

Step 2 (Optional)

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above or your own favorite drop shadow settings.

If the main tube stationary graphic image is too large for the tag, go to Image/Resize, using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Step 3

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and copy and paste the text file, "Do you Believe in Magic?" to the top of the tag.

Step 4

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and apply your name text using the Night Sky font or your own favorite font. Be sure to leave room on the tag to add the star wand and fading tube image. If you want to use the same multiple color text, use black in the top color box for the stroke and the rainbow gradient in the bottom color box for the fill.

Step 5

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add your copyright information.

Step 6

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 7

Go To Layers/Duplicate and Duplicate this layer 8 times so you have a total of 9 Layers.

Step 8

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 80%, Bicubic and Resize All Layers checked. Save this file as magic1.psp.


Creating the Second Graphic Image (the one that will fade in)


Step 1

Open up your second graphic image (the one that will be fading) and click the Shift and D key to duplicate it. Close the original tube image.

Step 2

Copy and paste this image as a new layer on the magic 1 psp file. Resize this image to fit on the tag. Go to Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste as New Image. Save this new image as magic2.psp. Close the magic1 psp file without resaving it. We do not want the fading image on the magic 1 psp file.


We will complete this tag in animation shop. Click here to continue.