Blue Tag

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This tutorial was made in PSP X, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

For this lesson you need the following plugin:

Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow

You can download the plugin

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 color label - 1 preset shape - 1 line style.

Place the preset shape in your Preset shape folder.

Place the line style in your Line style folder.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #95bac6 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #e4eeed (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 225 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked - see image below:

Open a transparent image of 500 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Set your foreground to the 3rd color (the dark one) #48708a.

Activate your Pen tool

Line style 'Bal - Franse lelie gestreept' - with these settings:

Draw 3 vertical lines on the left side of your crea - see main image.

Each line a little shorter.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right 90 - nothing checked.

Place them on the left side - see main image.

Close your bottom layer.

Activate one of the line layers.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Open your bottom layer.

Activate the merged layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 60 - Blur 5 - color #808080.

Step 3

Set your foreground to color #e4eeed.

Set your background color to #48708a.

Set your background to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 225 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked - see step 2.

Activate your Preset shape tool - find shape 'all100' - Line style even - with these settings:

Draw the shape over your crea.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 60 - Blur 5 - color #808080

Step 4

Copy tube 'tube bluetag'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

If necessary resize the tube.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow - with these settings:

Step 5

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Image - Resize - Height 450 pixels - All layers checked.

Step 5

Image - Add borders - 3 pixels - red.

Select this border with your Magic wand - Feather and Tolerance 0 - Anti alias not checked.

Flood fill the border with your gradient.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!

 

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Goldielock.

This lesson is and remains the property of Goldielock.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

 

Translated by Zial on February 19, 2014

 

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