This tutorial was created by ©JMC-Designs, for use with Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9

For this tutorial you will need the following:

My Supplies HERE

Texturizer Plugin-Get it HERE

Font of your choice.  I used SellYourSoul.tff for this lesson.

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Unzip the files with WinZip

Install your Texture Plugin in your PSP 9 Plugin folder

Install your Brushes in your PSP 9 Brushes folder.

Extract your Gradient to your PSP 9 Gradient folder.

Extract your Pattern to your PSP Pattern folder.

Put your Mask in your PSP 9 Masks folder.

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Let's Begin!

1.  Open a new image 500 X 500 pixels with a transparent background.

2.  Click on your Selection tool and set it to Circle.  Draw a medium sized circle on your canvas.

3.  Grab your Flood Fill tool and with your Foreground set to your jcc-multi331 gradient, Flood fill the circle.

4.  Go to your Layer Palette and duplicate this layer two times.  You should now have 3 circles on 3 separate layers.  Arrange the circles in a group off centered and to the right of the canvas, over-lapping each other.  See example below;

5.  On your Layer Palette, Merge Layers, Visible.

6.  Now we will add some Texture.  Go to Effects, Plugins, Texture, Texturizer and apply the following settings:

Scaling = 100, Relief = 4, Texture = Sandstone, Light Direction = Top

7.  Next, click on Ajust, Add/Remove Noise, Add Noise and apply the following settings;

Gaussian, Noise = 35%, Monochrome checked.

8.  Now take your circles and move them to the upper right side of your canvas then click on Layers, Load Mask and find the Nik-Wing2 Mask and apply with the following settings;  Source Luminance, Fit to canvas, Invert Transparency and Show all mask checked.  After applying the mask go to your layer palette and delete the Mask layer, click yes to merge with bottom layer....then highlight the group layer, right click and Merge Group.

9.  Duplicate this layer on your layer palette by highlighting it and then right click and duplicate.  Turn visibility off on this layer and make sure you have the bottom one highlighted.....Then go to Effects, Texture Effects, Mosaic Glass and apply the following;  Columns = 73, Rows = 25, Glass Curvature = 0, Edge Curve = 10, Grout Width = 2,  Grout diffusion = 50.  Apply the Mosaic Glass again for the second time with the same settings.  Position this layer to your liking underneath your other circle layer.

10.  Add a new Raster Layer and name it Background.  Flood fill with white.  Go to layers, arrange and move this layer to the bottom.

11.  Add another new Raster Layer and make this your current active layer by highlighting it in the layer palette. 

12.  Grab your paintbrush and locate BrushMisc1.  Set your foreground to Pattern and use the plaid0025.  Apply the brush once in the top left corner and again in the bottom right corner.  You should have something like this;

13.  At this point turn the visibility of your circle layer back on and make a new Raster layer above it and name this layer MoonShape.

14.  Click on your Preset Shape tool with Anti Alias and Create as a Vector both checked.  Set your line width to 2.  Find the Moon 1 shape and select it.  Keep your foreground to the plaid pattern and make your background color black #000000.  Draw an elongated moon shape so it almost resembles a rounded check mark.  See example.  Then move this shape to the right of the canvas by grabbing the center node of the vector and then slightly rotate it by grabbing the node to the right of the center node.  You will see the rotation arrows appear, turn to a 45 degree angle.

15.  When you have your shape position and turned the way you like it, go to your layer palette and convert the layer to a raster layer.  Then right click and duplicate this layer 1 time.

16.  On the duplicated layer go to Image, Rotate, Free Rotate, Left 90% and make sure that All Layers is NOT checked.  Position this one across your other half moon in the upper right side of canvas.

17.  Make another new Raster Layer and name this layer Brush2.  Change your foreground color to black #000000 and click on your paint brush.  Find your vcbrush04a and chose it.  Change the size of the brush to 300 and then apply it once in the upper right hand corner. 

18.  Go to Layers, Duplicate, then Image, Flip and arrange it in the bottom right corner of your canvas.

19.  Open your cc_BlackCorset_jcc_04 tube and place it in the center of your image.

20.  You can now apply a drop shadow to your tube layer, your brush layers and your circle layer if you'd like.  Go to Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow....I used a drop shadow with the following settings on all 3 layers;

21.  In your layer palette, turn off the visibility of your background layer and Merge all other Layers visible.

22.  I resized my tag at this time by 80%.  Go to Image, Resize, make sure that Resampling is checked and set to Smart Size and Resize all Layers is checked .  Refer to the settings below;

23.  Click on Adjust, then Sharpen and apply one time.

24.  You can add a small border around your tag now.  Go to Selections, Select All, Modify, Contract by 3.  Keeping your selection, add a new Raster Layer and flood fill  this selection with your jcc_multi331 gradient.  With your marching ants still visible, again click on Selections, Modify and Contract by 3 then click Delete on your keyboard.  You are now left with a thin border around your tag.  You may apply a bevel of your liking or a drop shadow.  I left mine flat.

25.  To complete your tag, add some text or your name to it.  Set your foreground to your jcc-multi331 gradient and your background color to black #000000.  Choose your text and make sure that you change the direction to Verticle & Left with a line width of 1 on your toolbar then apply your text to the right side of your image.

26.  Apply the same drop shadow that we used in step 20.  Merge all layers visible and save your tag as a .jpg.

That's it, you are done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

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