This tutorial was written by Julie on December 17th 2006.

It's concept is copyrighted to me. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Tramages Tow the Line here
Mask here by MzKels www.withwildabandon.com

An image of your choice.
I used an artwork © Johnnie Grez
You must have purchased a license to use his work from CILM.
If you don't have one, please use different images.

A few miscellaneous texture brushes of your choice.

A Font of your choice.
I used A & S Snapper Script which is a pay font that I can't share.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

Step 1:

Open your image/photo in PSP. Open and minimize your mask and fonts.
Duplicate and close your original image. Promote your background to raster layer, add a new raster layer and floodfill with black.
Go to layers>new mask layer and apply the dbm320 mask.
Layers, merge group, then layers merge all flatten.
Image-add border of 2px in black
add border of 2 px in white.
Set that to the side for a minute.

File - new image size 500 by 500.
Floodfill this with white.
Copy/paste your bordered image on your new canvas as a new layer.
Resize by 85% bicubic (may be more or less depending on your image used)
Duplicate this layer 2 times
Click on your bottom image layer (not the bg) and rotate it to the left by 10 degrees
Click on the middle image layer and rotate to the right by 10 degrees
Close your white bg layer and click on one of the other layers and merge visable
Duplicate your merged layer
Resize the top merged layer by 85%
Resize the bottom merged layer by 90%
Stay on that layer and apply Tramages Tow the line - I used the settings below.



Click on your top layer, and add a drop shadow. I used
Vertical = 2 Horizontal = 2 Opacity = 60 Blur = 5

Click on the bottom white background layer and add a new raster layer
Apply some texture brushes in a color that compliments your tag.
For more brushes, just keep adding new layers.

When you are satisfied with the brush look, crop out your extra white around the tag and resize to whatever size you prefer.
Merge Visable
Add new layers for the artist copyright and your taggers watermark
Time for your name. Pick a dark color from your image for the stroke/foreground
and a lighter one for the fill/background.
I used size 72 with a stroke of 1.
Add a nice inner bevel and drop shadow to your text
When satisfied - merge all, flatten and save.

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