this tag was created using one of my tubes

You will find the original tutorial here :

This tutorial is a personal creation.
Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
It is stricly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name or take off the matermarks,
To present them on your sites or blog,
To share them in groups,
to make a bank of images, or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Veroreves’s work and the tubers work.
Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation,
and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can

I worked with PSP2020 Ultimate
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies
masks – Word art tube - preset
background image and character tubes are no provided

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 »has become  --> image => mirror => mirror horizontal
« Flip » has become  --> image => mirror => mirror vertical

Plugins needed
Simple
Unlimited 2
Eye Candy 5 Impact
Eye Candy 5 Textures
you will need a .jpeg image, and a character tube

duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
open the masks and mimimize to tray
double click on the preset to install
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes

1 – the background
1
open your image => edit => copy

2
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
selections => select all
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none
adjust => blur => radial blur

3
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

4
image => mirror => mirror vertical
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
selections => select none

5
effects = > plugins => Simple => Left Half Wrap

6
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Stutter Diagonal

7
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Stutter Vertical

8
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Default Settings

9
effects => distortion effects =>Displacement Map

10
effects => edge effects => enhance more

2 - the stars mask
1
open « mask_vjf_stars »

2
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Tile & Mirror => Kaleidoscope 3

3
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Default Settings

4
back to your main work
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with a light color picked up into your image

5
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group

6
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

7
adjust => sharpness => sharpen more
blend mode of the layer « Luminance » or « Hard light » (or other)  (your choose, according to your colors)

3 - the cross mak
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste the image into selection
selections => select none

2
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group

3
effects => distortion effects => Pinch / 60

4
effects => geometric effects => Circle / transparent

5
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 70%

6
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Extrude

7
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass / preset « Clear - No Drop Shadow »

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

8
effects => image effects => offset => H :  199 / V : 13 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

4 - the title
1
copy / paste the title tube as new layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

2
adjust => hue and saturation  => Hue/saturation/lightness => adapt the settings to your colors

3
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 427 / position Y : 397

5 - the character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
move to left side
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

6 - the frame
1
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

2
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 40 px (choose your color)
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 40 px
selections => invert
selections => modify => contract => 4 px

3
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 => Textures / Reptile Skiin / same color as for the border

4
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black
selections => select none

5
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with a tube created by Nadège

Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this tutorial
If you create a tag (using other tubes and colors than those provided) with this tutorial
and wish it to be shown, send it to Veroreves !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial

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