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. 

Supplies Include Smile Template created by me.  The flower circle was created used the incredible doodles by Lori.  Also included are Lori's Brown Eyed Susan Doodles. Lori has awesome doodles.  She now has her own blog, located here,  where you can download all of her wonderful graphics.

Step 1

Open a new transparent image 600 width by 600 height, the smile template and the tube graphic you will be using.

Step 2

At the Smile Template, open up your layer palette, and make Raster Layer 2 (the white circle) active.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make your transparent image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. 

Step 3

Left click the magic wand using the (1) settings from above and left click it inside the circle to select it.  Flood fill the circle with a solid dark color that will work with your tube graphic.  Go to Selections/Select None.

Step 4

Go to Effects/Texture Effects/Weave and use these settings:

Step 5

Go to Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds and use these settings:

Step 6

Make the Smile Template active.  Open up the layer palette and make Raster Layer 3 (the circular topper) active.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make your tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.

Step 7

Go to Effects/Hue and Saturation/Colorize and moving the sliders over, colorize the circular topper to a different color (again, dark shade) that will work well with your tube graphic.

Step 8

Repeat Steps 4 and 5.

Step 9

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

Step 10

Make the Smile Template active.  Open up the layer palette and make Raster Layer 4 (the flower circle) active.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make your tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.

Step 11

Make the Smile Template active.  Open up the layer palette and make Raster Layer 5 (the text) active.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make your tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.

Step 12

Repeat Step 7 colorizing the text and repeat Step 9, applying the drop shadow to the text.

Step 13

Make your tag image active and open up your layer palette. Go to the circle layer and make it active.  Left click the magic wand using the (2) settings (with the very high tolerance of 130) and left click the magic wand on the circle to select the entire circle.

Step 14

Make the tube image active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.

If the image is too large to fit, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers Not checked. 

Step 15

Left click the mover tool and place the image within the selection, below the text.  Go to Selections/Invert, click the delete key and go to Selections/Select None.

Step 16

Repeat Step 9 adding the drop shadow to the image.

Step 17

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 16

Open up Lori Brown Eyed Susans.  Using the Freehand Selection Tool, draw a selection around the flower you wish to use. Copy and Paste the flower to the tag as a new layer and resize as you did in Step 14.  If you wish to use any of the other doodle elements copy and paste them, as well.

Step 17

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and apply your copyright and go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 18

Left click the crop tool and draw a rectangle around the areas you wish to keep, eliminating any excess white palette (but do keep some at the bottom for your name text). Double left click within the rectangle or left click the check mark at the crop ribbon above.

Step 19

Save this file as a jpg without the name text.  This way you have a template you can use to make multiple tags for friends and group members.  Just add your text to each of your tags, apply the drop shadow from above, go to Layers/Merge/Merge all (flatten) and resave your tag with another name.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Purrs,

Nikki, Nichie and Sue