This tutorial was created August 12, 2006
Any resemblance to other online tutorials is purely coincidence
ŠN@thy 2007

This tutorial was written using PSP 9, but can be done in other versions

~ You will need ~

*** The alpha I used is by Dozi. You can download it here (2nd set from the top) ***

Paint Shop Pro, a 30 day trial can be downloaded here
My supplies here. The zip includes tubes, tearup borders, pattern, texture and brush

Put the brush in your brush folder
(If the brush is not working i included it in psp file format)
Put the pattern in your Patterns folder
Put the texture in your Textures folder
Open the tubes in psp and minimize them all
Set your foreground color to black #000000
Set your background to pattern beautybg (Angle 0, Scale 100)

File, New
Set Width to 300 and Height to 400, Transparent background
Fill this layer with black
Raster, New Raster Layer
Set your foreground color to #C0C0C0 and check Texture
Find texture42 (Angle: 0, Scale 100) and fill the layer
Change the opacity of this layer to 34

Copy tearup.pspimage and paste as a new layer
Rename this layer tearup
Image, Rotate, Free Rotate and use the following settings:



Move the tearup to the left side
Activate your Magic Wand and set the Tolerance to 30
Select the grey part of the tearup
Fill the selection with your pattern (beautybg)
Selections, Select None
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Copy tearup2.pspimage and paste as a new layer
Move the tearup into the right bottom corner
Activate your Magic Wand and set the Tolerance to 30
Select the part under the tearup
Fill the selection with your pattern but change the scale to 70
Selections, Select None
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Make sure you foreground color is set to #C0C0C0 and uncheck texture
Layers, New Raster Layer
Activate your Brush Tool, find gh_swirly_007 and use the following settings:



Apply the brush once with your foreground color
(Or use the brush provided in psp format)
Image, Resize and use the following settings:



Image, Flip
Image, Rotate, Free Rotate: Direction: Left, Free: 45, All layers not checked
Move the brush up into the top right corner
(Look at my image for placement)
File, New
Set Width to 214 and Height to 275, transparent background
Fill layer with white color
Copy Mtm_Face 76-Tara-11 aug 2006.pspimage and paste as new layer
Image, Resize and use the following settings:



Position the lady so the bottom corner of the
tube fits the bottom corner of the image

Copy tearup2.pspimage and paste as a new layer
Image, Rotate, Free Rotate: Direction: Right, Free: 180, All layers not checked
Move it up in the top left corner
Select the part over the tearup
Fill the selection with your pattern but change the scale to 100
Selections, Select None
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Copy corner.pspimage and paste as new layer
Move it in the top right corner
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

Copy the image we just made and paste into our working area
Image, Rotate, Free Rotate: Direction: Left, Free: 5, All layers not checked
Move the pic up a little bit
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Move this layer down just underneath the tearup layer

Copy mzepeda-quotestack-beauty02.pspimage and paste as new layer
Image, Rotate, Free Rotate: Direction: Left, Free: 5, All layers not checked
Adjust, Color Balance, Negative Image
Move the text on the top of the pic
Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

Copy border.pspimage and paste as new layer
Move the border down and to the left just under the lady's lips
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Layers, Duplicate and move this second border down
(Look at my image for placement)
Layers, Merge, Merge Down
Move this layer just underneath the tearup layer but on top of the lady's layer

Maximize flowers.pspimage
Copy one flower and paste as a new layer
Layers, Arrange, Bring to top
Move this flower to the right on the 2 borders
(Look at my image for placement)
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Do the same thing with the 2 other flowers
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

Maximize katzerl's-alphas-cardboard01-01.psp
Image, Resize 35 Percent, Resample using Smart Size
Adjust, Hue and Saturation, Colorize and use the following settings:
Hue: 251, Saturation: 48
Adjust, Brightness and Contrast, Brightness/Contrast and use the following settings:
Brightness: 40, Contrast: 15
Using the Selection Tool, select your name's letters and copy them
Paste each letter as new layer and move them down at the bottom of the image
Repeat the process until you have all your name written
Hide the background layer
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the same settings as before
Unhide the background layer
Layers, Merge, Merge All (Flatten)

Add your watermark and your tag is finished. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.