Candys Treats PSP tag tutorials: Fun & Flirty

*old tut moved from my tut site*

This tag tutorial was written by me 20/02/07 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

I am using the artwork of Dean Yeagle you can get his tubes from CDO
however you can use any tubes you like...

tubes and a mask of choice....

I used a heart shaped one 'VIX_MASK13 from here thanks Vix hun x...

again you really could use any shape you like, once you know how ;)

once you have chosen a mask to use, make sure it is placed in your masks folder in PSP for use later.
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Open raster a new canvas 500x 500
Flood fill with white
Choose 3 or 4 tubes of you liking , and arrange them on your canvas

I added the the middle tube last so it was on the top layer and placed it slightly lower than the other 2
now go to Adjust - hue and saturation - colourise

adjust the hue and saturation both to '0' on for all tube layers

all tubes should now be grey...

X out your white background layer
(hide the visability of this layer on your layers menu by clicking on the eye symbol - As you do not want to merge this layer yet)
now merge visible Layers

* Important - now make your white filled layer visable again *

Add a new layer and flood fill with a colour or Gradient of your choice

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE A GRADIENT TRY HERE FOR A GOOD TUT ON IT

I used Foreground HTML no:#400040 and Background HTML no: #e1cfb7

now you have your gradient colours choose these settings for your gradient

floodfill your canvas then change the blending node to Burn
as shown below

by going to Layers - Properties - Burn

MERGE ALL
Reduce opacity to around 70

Layers - LOAD/SAVE MASK- Load mask from disk
Select your mask in the dropdown with the following settings

Click OK

Right click on your layers and merge group.

now go to Effects - Texture effects– WEAVE
with these settings

Merge all again

Using the Crop Tool select just the head shots - copy and paste as a new image
As shown below

Select this as your fill for your text in the pattern section of background fill instead of a colour and make the foreground the dark purple you used before.

Add your text using a chunky font and stretch out to a nice size so that you see the faces in your words.

I used Berlin Sans FB Demi on the folowing settings