Spring Tag

This tutorial uses a paid filter - Alienskin Xenofex - but you can download a trial version HERE
Supplies for this and the variation below can be downloaded HERE,
but as with all things PSP, it's much more interesting to use your own tubes, colours, fonts etc.
Many thanks to Vixen's Haven & Jazzls.net for the tubes I used.
Instructions and screenshots are for my tag, so may have to be 'tweaked' to fit your tag.

1) Open a new transparent canvas 550 x 450

2) Copy and paste your tube to it as a new layer

3) Flood fill your bottom layer with a pastel from your tube.
Go to effects ----> texture effects -----> blinds. These are the settings I used:



4) Add a new raster layer above the pastel layer, and flood fill with pattern.
Apply the Xenfex 'burnt edges' plug in - these are my settings



5) Copy and paste the frame image to your canvas as a new layer.
With mine I rotated it to the right by 90 deg.

6) Move your frame layer above the tube layer and position it on the canvas, with the tube centered in the frame (you may need to resize your tube to fit - remember to sharpen if you do).
On your frame layer, change the blend mode on  the layer palette to "Luminance" -
it should pick up the colours of the background layers.

7) Add the following drop shadow to the frame,
then repeat but with the horizontal and vertical settings at -1



8) Add a new raster layer below the tube. Highlight your frame layer, and click inside the oval.
 Selections ---> modify ----> expand by 3. Selections ----> defloat.
Click on the new layer with the selection still active
and flood fill with the lighter colour from your background.
Add some texture if you like. Selections ----> none.

9) Add a drop shadow to your tube image - I used the darkest colour from the frame and these settings:



10) Copy & paste the spring text tube as a new layer. Change blend to "Luminance" as with the frame.
 Add drop shadow twice (same settings as frame shadow).
Move to where you want and merge visible again.

11) Copy & paste the flower image as a new layer. I resized the daisies by 75% . Move to position.

12) Using the lasso tool, draw around the bottom flower and surrounding leaves, copy and paste as a new layer. Add the same drop shadow as you did on the fairy image to both flower layers.
Position above the spring text

13) Using a pretty font (I used KonTiki Enchanted but it's a pay font, so I haven't included it) - with stroke at your dark background colour and fill at the light, type your text at about 72 point size, floating.

14) Promote to raster layer, and add the drop shadow from the frame - but just the first one.

 15) Position, merge visible your layers, resize & sharpen if you want it smaller,
save as a .jpg file and you're done!

Tutorial & tag created April 11, 2006 - kit89