1. Open your tube you want to use and make two copies of it (Shift D) and close original. Minimize one
of the copies for now.
2. With one of the tube copies active, go to Effects, Geometric Effects, Twirl and set
degree to 255 and okay.
3. Go to your layer palette and right click on the word layer 1 and then left click on the
word duplicate.
4. Go up to Image, and left click on Mirror.
5. Go back to layer palette and right click on one of the layers, then left click on merge,
then merge visable. Now looks like this.
6. Go up to Effects, Texture Effects and click on Mosaic Antique, settings are:
number of column and rows= 50, symmetric checked, tile opacity=70, grout width=2,
grout opacity=50, and okay
7. Go to Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, settings are:
Vertical and Horizontal=2, opacity=60, blur=8, colour=pick a bright colour from your tube
and okay
8. Bring up your minimized copy of tube and go Edit, copy and then minimize it again.
Now with your mosiac image active, go to Edit, paste, paste as new Layer.
9. Then go up to Image, resize, put check in Percentage of original, and width 80. (height will be same number).
All layers unchecked, maintain ratio checked and okay. Then go Effects, sharpen, sharpen.
10. Use mover tool and move the tube to where you like it to sit.
11. Go to Effects, 3D effects, Drop Shadow and apply a dropshadow, settings are:
Vertical and Horizontal=2, Opacity=100, Blur=5, Colour=Another dark colour from your graphic
If you don't see your dropshadow as well as you like you can apply dropshadow again,
same settings.
12. Go to layer palette, right click, add new raster layer and okay.
13. Set your foreground and background style boxes to a colour you want your font to be.
14. Click on your font Icon (letter A) and add your name. Set your size and select a font.
and okay. Move font to where you want it. Add a dropshadow to your font if you want.
Deselect ants. (selections, select none)
15. Merge all layers, flatten. Resize if you need to. If you resize,remember to go to
Image, sharpen, sharpen. Apply watermark. Save in jpeg format. You're done.
Congratulations! I hope you had fun making this tag.
This tutorial was created Jan 28, 2004 and is the sole property of Dreamsrmaid with Jessica.
Please do not remove this tutorial or any parts of of this tutorial to any other website.
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