My Seaschell Forum Style Tag Tutorial

My Seaschell Forum Style Tag Tutorial

by Ladyjai3Creations

July 2018

what you will need

a tube

i am using Seaschell Coral by

© Alehandra Vanhek

you can purchase this tube at

 www.scrapsandcompany.com

Paint shop pro (i am using 17 but any version will work)

font of choice

filters

Muras meister- copies & perspective tiling

eye candy 4000 -gradient glow for copyrights & name (optional)

photo effex - scanlines (or you can use texture effect blinds)

Lets start!

open a new transparent image 600 x 250

take your eye dropper tool and pick out colors from your tube light for foreground and darker for background

flood fill with either color your choice

photo effex scanlines top 2 set to 2 the rest default

c&p your tube resize to your liking place on left side of tag, sharpen add DS (2 -2 68 7) that is what i used but you can use what you like

muras meisters copies and take the number of copies down to 5

blend mode soft light opacity to 50 add DS if you wish

get your rectangle tool and set it to square background null foreground with the light color you chose

draw out a tiny square convert to raster , muras meister perspective tiling default, blend mode soft light reduce properties to about 50-60 add DS

using the rectangle tool switch over to rectange and draw a thin rectangle across the tag the width of

your tag width 2 i placed mine towards the bottom (see mine for placement) when happy with it convert to raster layer

select all float defloat c&p tube but mirror it , selections invert hit delete on keyboard select none,

blend mode soft light, take properties between 40-50 add DS

c&p your tube resize to fit and place it in center, sharpen add DS,

get out your text tool, find a font you like (i used summertime at Dafont.com) and type out Summer

Dreams or something you like and place on the right side of rectangle, when happy with it, convert to raster layer, add inner bevel and DS

new raster layer select all flood fill with light color, selections modify contract by 2 hit delete on keyboard select none add noise random 50% monochrome checked

add your copyright info, license # and your own taggers watermark. merge all flatten save as jpg, for my name i used the font Swan Song but you can use any font you want

thats it! you are done, i hope you had fun and it was easy to follow. you can send me your results and i will post them here. thanks for trying my tutorial!

Ladyjai3Creations

My Seaschell Forum Style Tag Tutorial

July 2018