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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called Big Bloke BB

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Danny Lee

License and Tubes now available at ArthurCrowesFactory

One of my Templates which you can get on my Blog, we will be using SpawnsFSTemplate047

 

Filters:

Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow

 

 

 

Ok let's begin

Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original

Delete the Credits and both the White BackgroundStrip layers

 

 

Activate the Left Photo Grey Inside layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Change your Foreground to a color from your Tube and Flood Fill the Selection with this color

Paste your Tube as a New layer and position so it covers the Selection (any part of the Tube will do)

Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

 

 

Selections> Select None ... Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L)

Layers> Merge> Merge Down ... Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... with the following settings

Click on the Settings tab and select the Drop folder then select Blurry

Click on the Basic tab and change the Center Offset Distance to 5

also change the Overall Opacity and Overall Blur to 100

 

 

Activate the Right Photo Grey Inside layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Change your Background to a second color from your Tube and Flood Fill the Selection with this color

Paste your Tube as a New layer and position so it covers the Selection (any part of the Tube will do)

Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

 

 

Selections> Select None ... Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L)

Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... with the same settings as before

Change your Foreground to Gradient ... with the following settings

 

 

Activate the Main Background layer and Flood Fill it with your Gradient

Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings

 

 

Change your Foreground back to Color

Activate the Left Photo Frame layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color ... Selections> Select None

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings

 

 

DELETE the Left Photo Frame layer

Activate the Right Photo Frame layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color ... Selections> Select None

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the same settings as before

 

 

DELETE the Right Photo Frame layer

Activate the Outer Black Strips layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

Change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light or one suitable ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down

 

 

Paste your Tube as a New layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top

position on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with your Background color

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 2 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Select None

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... this time Noise set to 60%

 

Add CopyRights and your Name and that's it all that's left is to save your Tag

 

 

Tutorial written on the 08/07/2012 ©David Hanslip