To create this Tag you will need:

A Tube and a Close-up

I bought this tube when Keith Garvey was with PTE

Tubes and Licence are now available at his STORE

 

Ready?

Let's Begin!

Choose a Medium Dark Color for your FG

Choose a Slightly Lighter Shade of the same color for the BG

Make a Linear gradient on the FG

Angle 45 - Repeats 5

 

New Image - 800x600

Fill with your Gradient

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance - Twice

Duplicate and Mirror

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay, or one you like better

Merge Visible

 

New Layer

Change your FG Gradient to Sunburst

Fill with your Gradient

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance - Twice

Change the Blend mode

This part is a little Tricky

It needs to look like this:

Merge Visible

 

Selection Tool

Circle - Add(Shift) - Feather 0

Place your Cursor at X400 - Y300

Draw out a Circle Like So:

Promote Selection to Layer

 

Deselect - Stay on this Layer

Selection Tool

Circle - Add(Shift) - Feather 0

Place your Cursor at X400 - Y300

Draw out a Circle Like So:

Promote Selection to Layer

 

Select your Bottom Layer

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave

Gap 1 - Width 3 - Opacity 1

Weave color is your Dark Color

Gap Color is your Light Color

 

Open the pattern you want to use or make one like I did

Open your Close-Up Tube

Zoom in a Bit

Selection Tool set on Rectangle

Draw out a rectangle in the patterned area you want to use

Edit - Copy

Open a new Image 200X200

Select All - Paste into Selection - Deselect

Sharpen or Enhance Edges if you need to

Seamless Tiling - Corner and Bi Directional Checked

H and V - 0

Transition 100%

Corner Style - Curved

Set your BG to Pattern

Choose the Pattern you just made, or another one you have

Let's get back to our Tag

 

Select the First Promoted Selection

Select All - Float - Defloat

Fill with your Pattern

Effects - Texture Effects - Fur

Deselect - Drop Shadow 0, 0, 50 and 25

 

Time to Resize if you want it smaller if you want

I made mine 650X488

 

Select your BG Layer

Add a New Layer

Fill with your Dark Color

Contract 2 - Delete - Deselec

 

Select the Second Promoted Selection Layer

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave

Gap 1 - Width 3 - Opacity 1

Weave color is your Dark Color

Gap Color is your Light Color

Duplicate - Keep Selected

 

On the Duplicate

Paste your Close-Up and Move into Place

Change the blend to one you like and lower Opacity

Invert Selection - Making sure you're on the CU Layer - Delete - Deselect

Merge Down

 

On the Original

Drop Shadow 0, 0, 50 and 25

Duplicate

Image Effects - Offset

Duplicate Layer - Mirror - Merge Down

Duplicate this Layer for a Total of Three

On the Bottom One

Adjust - Add Noise

Gaussian - 45% - Mono Checked

On the Middle One

Adjust - Add Noise

Gaussian - 47% - Mono Checked

On the Top One

Adjust - Add Noise

Gaussian - 46% - Mono Checked

Hide the Top Two of these

 

Add your Tube and give it a suitable Drop Shadow

Move into place

Crop to Merged Opaque

Add your Name, CR Info and License#

 

Animation

Open Animation Shop(AS)

In PSP - Copy Merged

In AS - Paste as New Animation

In PSP - Hide the Bottom Noise Layer and Unhide the Middle one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

In PSP - Hide the Middle Noise Layer and Unhide the Top one

Copy Merged

In AS - Paste after Current Frame

View Animation - If you like it, save as a Gif

 

 

Here's another Sample also using Art by Keith Garvey

 

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