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Hold Me Close Tutorial

    This tutorial is my own creation, any similarity is purely coincidental! This tutorial was written August 7th, 2004. Please feel free to LINK to this tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use, but please do not copy it in anyway to put online, pass out or re-write without my permission ©§tud This tutorial was written in PSP7 but can be done in PSP8 Supplies:
PSP
Super Blade Pro with the Buckled Mirror preset Find Super Blade Pro HERE it is not free
Toadies HERE
Eye Candy 4000
Tube of your choice Font of your choice or use mine the sun3 shape, SBP preset and font zip HERE ... unzip and put the font in your fonts folder, the SBP preset and Island .bmp into the environments and textures folder in your flaming pear file and the tube in your tube folder
Image by Candra and is copyright to her
1. Open a new blank 500 x 500 pixels transparent image (16 million color depth) image (Click on File/New, then set your size and color depth)

2. Open your tube, make a copy (Ctrl + D), close the original and minimize your copy for now(if you are using mine please make sure you put the proper copyright details on the finished image )   (©Candra www.candra.deviantart.com/)

3. On your colors palette set the foreground to null and the background to white by clicking on the small black arrows

4. Click on the preset shapes   and select sun3 from you list, with antialias and vector both checked, draw a shape to fill your blank image

5. Use the node points (little white boxes) to make it bigger if if necessary, when you're happy with its size right click on the shape layer on the layer palette and convert to raster layer

6. Click on selections > select all > selections > float so you should have little marching ants around your shape

7. Click on Effects > Plugins > Flaming Pear > Super Blade Pro and find the buckled mirror preset you saved at the start with the island image to give you a cool looking blue and use the default settings. Selections > select none.

8. Right click on your layer palatte and duplicate the shape layer, then hide the copy by clicking on the sunglasses at the side (or eye in PSP8)... so you will have 3 layers

9. Make sure layer 2 is highlighted... click on Effects > Plugins > Toadies and select Blur 'em! with the following settings x ~ 20 and y ~ 11 and click ok



10. Unhide the copy and with that laye highlighted reduce the opacity to 50... then click on layers > layers merge > merge visible

11. Maximize your tube, edit > copy, then go back to your sun and edit > paste as new layer. Click on Image > resize and resize by 80% using bicubic resample (from the drop down menu if you do not already have this selected), make sure the resize all layers box is unchecked and the maintain aspect ratio IS checked

12. Move the tube so they're are standing on the bottom spike (or where ever suits your tag if you are using your own tube)... then click on effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > shadowlab and use the following settings: CMYK Black drop shadow (from the settings menu), Directions ~ 344, Center offset distance ~ 14.26, Overall opacity ~ 55, Over Blur ~ 5.04, Perspective Blur ~ 15, draw only outside selection checked and color set to #000000



13. Add a new raster layer, open your font and minimize it... use a font size that suits your tag and choose a fill that also suits... i kept a black stroke and white fill to use Super Blade Pro as a fill , with floating and antialias both checked ... if you use Medusa, don't be put off if the squares show up instead of letters because the lettering will show up on the actual tag as you can see on the image ...

move your text to suit your tag... if you aren't using Super Blade Pro to fill then go to step 15

14. If you're using Super Blade Pro, select a preset that you like... I used TB_Metallic BluSwirl with the glare changed to 88

15. Now whether you're using SBP or a normal color/gradiant click on effects > 3D effects > Inner Bevel, select groove from the drop down list and use the default settings making sure the color is set to #FFFFFF , click ok

16. Add a drop shadow clicking effects > 3D effects > drop shadow and use the following settings: Vertical ~ 2, horizontal ~ -2, opacity ~80, blur ~ 1 with color set to #000000





click ok... click on selections > select none. Click on your top layer on the layer palette and drag it down so it is beneath layer 1 so your tube is at the top

17. Add one new raster layer to put on your watermark and one new raster layer to put the copyright details on (add a new raster layer for each set of writing you add), then click on layers > layers merge > merge visible

18. Either crop your image if there is space around your tag or resize the whole tag like I have by clicking image > resize... with the following settings: resized by pixel size to 350 at its longest edge, bicubic resample, resize all layers and maintain aspect ratio to 1.0000 both checked

19. Save as a jpeg and you're done!
This tag was created in PSP 8 by Gothika
Hope you enjoyed this tut

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