To create this Tag you will need A Tube I used Art by Barbara Jensen Tubes and License HERE
Mura's Meister - Copies Toadies - What are you? Graphics Plus - Emboss My Mask
Right click and Save to your own computer My Selection - HERE Ready? Let's begin!
Choose Dark and Medium colors from your Tube for your FG/BG colors New Image 800x600 Fill with your Dark color Distortion Effects - Spiky Halo
Drop shadow 2, 2, 60 and 5
Put your light color as the BG Make your FG Null Preset Shape Tool
Choose any shape you like I Chose Draw Polygon and made the number of sides 4 For the second sample I chose the Heart preset Draw out a small Shape Objects - Align Center Convert to Raster I used the Pick tool to elongate it, so it made a Diamond Shape
Mura's Meister - Copies V-Tile[random h-line] - Default settings Image Effects - Offset
Duplicate - Mirror Merge Down Change the Blend mode to your liking Lower the Opacity a bit
Select the Bottom Layer Select All - Float - Defloat - Invert Selection Select the Shapes Layer - Delete - Deselect
Merge Down Graphis Plus - Emboss - Default Settings
New Layer - Fill with White or Light Color Mask from Image - Source Luminance Checked Merge Group - Add Noise - Gaussian - 40% - Mono Checked Drop the Opacity to around 50
New Layer Load my selection Fill with your Lighter color or white Deselect Toadies - What are you? X-dose 36 Y-dose 34 Rotate Left - 90 Degrees Edge Effects - Enhance We're going to add a little noise now Take your Magic Wand and click where you want the noise to be Add Noise - Gaussian - 40% - Mono Checked Drop Shadow 2, 2, 60 and 5
New Layer - Fill with your Dark Color Select All - Contract 3 - Delete - Seselect Add your Tube - Drop Shadow - 20, 20, 60 and 100 Resize to your liking- I made mine 600X450 Add your Name and CR Info Save as PNG
**This Tag is meant to have a Transparent BG. If you want to wear it on a Forum with a color scheme that doesn't match your Tube, simply create a new layer, fill with color of choice and move to the bottom of the layer stack**
Another Sample using art by Elias Chatzoudis I bought this Tube while he was at PTE He now has his own store HERE
If you try this, or any of my Tutorials I would love to see what you made Please Post results and comments on my Fanpage
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