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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called WalrusGumbo

Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Ivan Flores

My selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder

Filters:

Mura's Meister/Copies and

AAA Frames/Foto Frame

Ok let's begin

Open a New Image 600x250 and Flood Fill it White

Paste your Tube as a new layer ... Resize so it fits nicely in the center

Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies .... Wallpaper rotate (default settings)

 

Layers> Merge> Merge Visible

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

Blur - 10
Density - 30
Length - 30
Transparency - 40

Duplicate layer twice (for a Total of 3)

 

Rename the layers like so

Top - Noise 3

Middle - Noise 2

Bottom - Noise 1

 

Activate the Noise 1 layer

Load the Selection I provided at the start of this Tutorial

(Spawns-FurChick)

 

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

Uniform - checked

Monochrome - checked

Noise - 70%

 

Activate the Noise 2 layer

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

Uniform - checked

Monochrome - checked

Noise - 75%

 

Activate the Noise 3 layer

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

Gaussian - checked

Monochrome - checked

Noise - 70%

 

Keep selection and add the following Drop Shadow to all 3 layers

Horizontal - 0

Vertical - 0

Opacity - 100

Blur - 10

 

Selections> Select None ... Crop image 600x250

Paste your Tube as a new layer and move over to the left side of your tag

Drag layer to the top in your layer palette

 

Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror

Layers> Merge> Merge Down (both tubes will now be on 1 layer)

Apply a Drop Shadow of your choosing

Crop image 600x250

 

Apply Effects> AAA Frames> Foto Frame ... with the following settings

Width - 6

Matte - 3

Opacity - 70

All other bars set to 0

Negative - unchecked

More Shadow - unchecked

to ALL layers

 

Activate the Tube layer ... Selections> Select All

Selections> Modify> Select Selection Border ... with the following settings

Inside - checked

Anti Alias - checked

Border Width - 6

 

Selections> Select None

Add Copyrights and your Name

Now it’s time to save your Tag ready to be animated

File> Save As ... under "File Type" choose PSP Animation Shop (*psp.)

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Tutorial written on 31/12/2010 ©David Hanslip