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Conditions of use of the material provided
It is forbidden to modifiy, change the name, take off the watermarks or alter the tubes.
It is forbidden to share them in groups or offer them on your site, blog or forum.
If you want to use them to create a tutorial, you must ask the permission of the authors.
MaryDesig has the permission of the creators to use their tubes, masks and decorations
Thank you to all of them for their work
Without their beautiful creations, no tutorials could be written.

translator’s note : Merydesig uses PSPX9 and I use PSP2018 to create our tags
but you can follow this tutorial with any other version of PSP
according to the version you use, the results might be slightly differents
Merydesig uses Animation Shop to create her animations
 I use Ulead Gif Animator

Hints & Tips
TIP 1 -> if you don’t want to install a font -->
open it in a software as « Nexus Font » (or other font viewer software of you choice)
as long as both windows are opened (software and font), your font will be available in your PSP
TIP 2 -> from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by -->
« Mirror » --> image -> mirror -> mirror horizontal
« Flip » --> image -> mirror -> mirror vertical

Material
patterns - tubes - selection - presets

open all tubes and duplicate them (window -> duplicate)
Close original tubes and work with the copies (to preserve the originals)
don’t forget to erase tubes’ watermarks before using them
copy / paste pattern(s) into the « pattern » folder of Corel PSP folder

Plugins

Unlimited 2

Use the pencil to follow the steps hold down left click to grab it and move it

Realization
1
open a new transparent image 900 * 700 pixels
flood fill with pattern « Corel_08_006 »

2
effects -> plugins -> VM Extravaganza -> Aura Detector / default settings

3
effects -> plugins -> VM Toolbox / Instant Tile

4
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill with the gradient « winterchaos_gradient022 »

5
effects -> plugins -> VM Experimental / Guess What ?...

6
adjust -> hue and saturation -> colorize

7
prepare you materials palette as below -> ...
gradient into the FG properties box  -  silver pattern into the BG properties box
set Black into FG and stroke color box, and black into the BG and fill stroke color box

8
effects -> plugins -> Ecosse -> Flutter

9
effects -> Unlimited 2 -> Tools / Lomo

10
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill with the silver pattern

11
selections -> load-save selection -> load selection -> from disk -> selections « MD_blanc »
tick « invert selection » at the bottom

DELETE on your keyboard
selections -> select none

12
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow / tick « shadow on new layer »

13
rename the silver selection -> « selection 1 » and highlight this layer
layers -> duplicate
rename the copy « selection 2 »
highlight « selection 1 » -> add-remove noise -> add noise -> 45%

highlight « selection 2 » -> add-remove noise -> add noise -> 55%
close the eye of « selection 2 »

14
copy / paste as new layer the rose tube
effects -> image effects -> offset

15
enable the smart selection brush with the following settings

select all the outlines of the flower

16
selection -> promote selection to layer
layers -> duplicate
selections -> select none
rename first layer « outlines 1 » and the copy « outlines 2 »
add noise on both layers as in step 13 (45% and 55%)
close the eye of « outlines 2 »

17
copy / paste as new layer the woman tube
effects -> image effects -> offset

adjust -> hue and saturation -> colorize -> 0 / 0

18
your layers palette looks like this

19 - Animation
edit -> copy special -> copy merged
open Animation Shop and paste as new animation
back into PSP
close the eyes of « selection 1 » and « outlines 1 »
open the eyes of « selection 2 » and « outlines 2 »
edit -> copy special -> copy merged
back into PSP
edit -> paste after current frame
file -> save as -> type .gif

your tag is finished
Thank you for following this tutorial

My tag with Animabelle's tubes

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