Clouds Tag

If you know who the artist is from this tube,

mail me and I can give the artist credit for his or her work.

This tutorial is written in PSP 7,

but can also be done with PSP8, PSP9 or PSP X.

What we need to make this tag:

Tube or mine

Font or mine

PlugIn Xenofex

PlugIn VM Toolbox

**Here we go**

*Open your tube and press shift D twice.

*Close your original tube.

*Image -> Canvas Size

with the following settings

*Effects -> PlugIns -> VM Toolbox -> ZoomBlur

with the following settings

*Go to your tube

*Copy and Paste as a new layer

*Image -> Resize -> 90%

ATTENTION !! All layers UNchecked !

*Effects -> Texture-effects -> Mosaic Antique

with the following settings

*Effects -> Geometric Effects -> Punch

with the following settings

*Layers -> New Rasterlayer.

*Effects -> PlugIns -> Xenofex -> Little Fluffy Clouds

with the following settings

*Put this layer between your layer 1 and backgroundlayer

**Opacity layer 1 at 80

**Opacity layer 2 at 90 and

**Your backgroundlayer at 100.

*Layers -> Merge -> Visible layers merge

*Go to your tube

*Copy and Paste as a new layer

*Image -> Resize -> 90%

ATTENTION !! All layers UNchecked !

*Put your tube where you like it the most.

( I put mine a little to the top. )

*Effects -> 3d effects -> Dropshadow

**Vertical 5

**Horizontal 5

**Opacity 75

**Blur 6

*Do this again but then with the following settings

**Vertical -5

**Horizontal -5

**Opacity 75

**Blur 6

*Layers -> Merge -> All layers merge.

*This is what I have right now.

*Layers -> Merge -> All layers merge.

*Press shift D for a blank tag so you can use that one again.

*Layers -> New Rasterlayer

*Go to your texttool -< Add your name

with the following settings

Attention !! Floating is checked !!

*Effects -> 3d Effects -> Dropshadow

with the following settings

**Vertical 5

**Horizontal 5

**Opacity 75

**Blur 6

*Selections -> Select none.

*Put your watermark on the tag

*Layers -> Merge -> All layers merge.

*Image -> Resize

with the following settings

Attention !! All layers Checked !

*Effects -> Sharpen -> Sharpen

*Save as JPG and your tag is ready.

I hope that you had a lot of joy making this tag

I did when I wrote it.