Our Block

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. 

Mura Meister's Cloud Filter which can be downloaded here.

Tubes of Choice (2)  -  For this tutorial, I used two delightful images created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Accessories - Our block template created and colorized using the clipart from Microsoft Clipart Media, a great place for graphics.  Also included are the dog and cat animations.

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

Magic Wand:

Mode: Add/Shift, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance 0, Contiguous checked, Feather: 0, Anti-Alias checked and outside selected. 

Drop Shadow Settings:

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

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

 

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up the our block template. Left click the magic wand and use the settings from above.  Left click the magic wand on the blue top area of the tag to select it.

Go to Effects/Plugins/Mura's Meister/Cloud and select the thin cloud preset at the default settings.  Go to Selections/Select None. This is your sky.

Step 2

Open up your tube graphics.  Make one of your tube graphics active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the our block 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 3

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

Step 4

Copy and paste your second image on the tag and resizing, if necessary. Repeat Step 3, adding a drop shadow with the color black.

Step 5

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and add your text and add the same drop shadow with as you did before but for color, change it to white.

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 80%, 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 animal graphics in animation shop.  Click here to continue.