Samantha's Christmas tag tutorial

 

Samantha's Christmas tag tutorial

by Ladyjai3Creations

12/15/2023

what you will need

a tube

i am using Samantha's Christmas by

©  Alehandra Vanhek

you can pick this up at www.picsfordesign.com

font of choice

i am using Cinnamon Roll Frosted which you can get at DaFont.com

paint shop pro

i am using version 17 but you can use any version you want

filters

eye candy 4000- gradient glow (for copyright info)

filters unlimited 2- distortion filters- surface tension

open a transparent image 600 x 250

use the eye dropper tool to take a light for foreground darker for background, i am using the blue layer of the tube

now make those colors and make a gradient out of them angle 45 repeats 2 

c&p your tube, place in center resize if necessary, image effects, seamless tile at default, adjust gaussian blur at 8, merge all flatten

now use filters unlimted distortion filters- surface tension, default settings, then repeat 1 more time

adjust blur motion blur, angle 300 strength 50, repeat 1 more x

filters unlimited, len effects concave at default

filters unlimited 2 - distortion filters, whirl at default, 2 x

c&p tube, resize to liking, place in center, sharpen, add DS (V 2 h-2 Opacity 68 Blur 7)

new raster layer, select all, fill with a color from your tube, i used blue from her wreath, hit delete on keyboard, select none, add a blue gradient to the frame

duplicate, go to original frame, adjust gaussian blur at 6

top layer, merge down, i usually use hsb noise for this, but that is up to you

add your copyright and license info along with your taggers watermark, merge all flatten, save as jpg

you are done! i hope you had fun and it was easy to follow. thanks for trying my tutorial

Ladyjai3Creations

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