Simple Tag Tutorial

This tutorial was written for Beginner PSPers. It uses all basic PSP features.
This tutorial will teach you how to use the Picture tube tool, resize, add Text. and use one of the most important Texture effects Sculpture. For those that don't know Sculpture is quite similar to Blade Pro its not as versitile as Blade Pro but it will work in a pinch if you can't afford the $50 that Flaming Pear charges.

You will need a few supplies before you begin this tutorial.
Download the preset you will need and unzip to your presets folder in PSP.
Download the pattern that the preset uses and put in your Patterns folder
Download the gold dust .psp. you will have to export this to your tubes folder. If you need instruction on how to install a tube into PSP go here I have written a mini tutorial for you.
After you have downloaded and installed your supplies you are ready to begin.

Open the PSP file you wish to use to make your tag.	Shift+D to duplicate the file. then close the original
On the PSP menu bar go to Image/Resize resize 50 to 60 % making sure that you don't resize all layers Then Sharpen , Go to Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen
Drop shadow , Go to Effects/3D Effects/ Drop-Shadow and use these settings V=3 H=3 Opacity=94 Blur=24.7
Create New Raster Layer Layers/New Raster Layer	Send Layer to bottom Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom
Chose the Picture tube tool On the tool options window find the Gold Dust tub I had you download and export into PSP
Left click around the edges of your graphic ....space the clicks appart a little if you add the gold dust where you don't want any just hit the undo button. Keep clicking untill your graphic looks something like this-->
Change active layers use the Layer Pallet to change from one layer to another
Using the Text tool Chose the font you would like to use from the drop-down menu ... Depending on the legth of the text you are adding and the size of the original graphic the size should be around 48 Floating and Anti-Alias should be checked
Rotate Image/ Rotate This step is Optional, If you chose to rotate chose the rotation angle that suits your graphic best it is unnessessary to use the settings shown to the right.
Using the mover toolposition text where you want it to be.
Sculpture (this is where we are going to use the PSP preset that I had you install) Go to Effects/Texture Effects/Sculpture
Drop Shadow with these setting V=4 H=4 Opacity=94 Blur=8
Go to Selection/Select none	Then merge layers Layers/Merge/MergeVisible
Copy <--this button on menu bar	Paste as new Image <---this button on menu bar
Resize by Pixels to no more than 300 pixels high.
Sharpen image	Save as Name your tag Chose JPEG from the dropdown click on Options and set compression to 5

Now send your results into the group so we can see your beautifull new tag.
If you have any problems with this tutorial or don't understand something email
me at res0hsls@verizon.net and I'll do my best to help you figure it out.

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