This tutorial was created in 2006
Any resemblance to other online tutorials is purely coincidence
İN@thy 2007

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

~ You will need ~
The artwork I used is İCris Ortega www.crisortega.com
Paint Shop Pro, a 30 day trial can be downloaded here
Simple (Top Left Mirror, Diamonds), you can download here
My supplies here. The zip includes tubes and brush

Put the brush in your brush folder
(If the brush is not working I included both size in psp file format)
Open your tubes in psp and minimize it for later use
Double click to open the font "Sands of Fire" and minimize it on your desktop
Set your foreground color to #47414E
Set your background color to #DDC9B3

~ Step 1 ~

File, New
Set Width to 400, the Height to 400 and check Transparent
Fill layer with your light color
Layers, New Raster Layer
Activate your Brush Tool, find CrisTaylor_44(1) and use the following settings:



Position your brush in the top left corner and apply it 4 times with your dark color
(If the brush is not working copy CrisTaylor_44(1)190.pspimage
Paste as new selection and move it into the top left corner)

~ Step 2 ~

Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel and use the following settings:



Effects, Plugins, Simple, Top Left Mirror (just click ok)
Effects, Distortion Effects, Wave and use the following settings:



Layers, Properties and set the opacity for this layer at 30
Minimize for later use

~ Step 3 ~

File, New
Set Width to 500, the Height to 500 and check Transparent
Fill layer with your light color
Layers, New Raster Layer
Activate your Brush Tool, find CrisTaylor_44(1) and use the following settings:



Position your brush in the top left corner and apply it 4 times with your dark color
(If the brush is not working copy CrisTaylor_44(1)232.pspimage
Paste as new selection and move it into the top left corner)

~ Step 4 ~

Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel and use the same settings as before
Effects, Plugins, Simple, Top Left Mirror (just click ok)
Effects, Plugins, Simple, Diamonds

~ Step 5 ~

Layers, New Raster Layer
Activate your Selection Tools and use the following settings:



Fill the selection with your dark color
Selections, Modify, Contract 5
Hit delete once on your keyboard

~ Step 6 ~

Selections, Invert
Selections, Float
Repeat Inner Bevel with same settings as before
Selections, Select None

~ Step 7 ~

Layers, New Raster Layer
Activate your Selection Tools and use the following settings:



Change your foregroud to the background we made earlier
Fill the selection with it

~ Step 8 ~

Layers, New Raster Layer
Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout and use the following settings:



Selections, Select None

~ Step 9 ~

Copy your couple tube and paste it as new layer
Move it to the left
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and use the following settings:



Copy the text (Sweet Kisses) and paste it as new layer
Move it to the right
Apply the same Drop Shadow
(Or you can use any other text you'd like)

~ Step 10 ~

Image, Add Borders, 10 pixels in your dark color
Select the border with your magic wand
Apply the same Inner Bevel as before
Selections, Select None
Save your work as jpg

Add your watermark and the artist info (İCris Ortega www.crisortega.com)
and your tag is finished. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.