Supplies
We'll be using Psp 8
a tube, a font and pattern of your choice or download mine
here
open the tube and pattern in psp, open the font and minimize it
the tube used here is a Monica's Special Tube, Unfortunately her site is no longer there.
Toadies Filter 1 and 2, you can download it
here
unzip toadies into your Psp 8 plugins file
Ok, lets get started!
don't forget to save often as a pspimage!
- file -> new -> 600x600, 16 milj colors -> ok
- take your selection tool
 settings: rectangle, replace, feather 0, anti-alias checked

- draw somewhere in the middle of your image an rectangle size about 160x210

- take your fill tool
-> click on your foreground color -> click the tab: patterns -> look up the brownswirls pattern, or a pattern of your own -> floodfill the rectangle
- selections -> select none
- effects -> plugins -> toadies -> blast 'em! -> settings shown below -> ok

- layers -> duplicate - and again layers -> duplicate (you should now have 3 layers)
- move
the layers to a position of your liking, in the picture below you can see where i placed mine

- layers -> merge -> merge visible
- effects -> 3d effects -> drop shadow: h/v 4, opacity: 85, blur: 10, color: black -> ok

- open the tube (or a tube of your liking) -> edit -> copy -> back to your working image -> edit -> paste -> paste as a new layer
- you might have to resize your tube, if you use mine -> image -> resize -> 70% - resize all layers unchecked -> ok
- after resizing: adjust -> sharpness -> sharpen
- move
your tube to where you like it
- effects -> 3d effects -> drop shadow -> same settings as step 10.
- layers -> new raster layer -> ok
- activate your texttool
set your foreground color to a light color out of your tube (i used: #D5CBC7 )
set your background color to a darker color out of your tube (i used: #55453D )
- Choose your font - mine: xhume, size: 90, stroke width: 2, floating

- with your ants still running around your text -> effects -> 3d effects -> inner bevel -> settings shown below -> ok

- ants still running -> effects -> 3d effects -> drop shadow -> same settings as step 10 -> ok
- select none
- you can now add your watermark
- you might want to save your tag in pspimage format, like this you can always add another text on it
file -> save as
- layers -> merge -> merge all
- if you have alot of white background you can crop it with your crop tool

- file -> save as -> .jpg -> and your tag is done!
Here is an example of the same lesson but with another tube, font and pattern

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
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