Tag Passion

original tutorial HERE

The tubes have been created by Michel.
Here I used Jet's tube "jet-woman11-juni-2007".
Jet shares her tubes in Yahoo! group Top_Design_Tubes here

May I point out that the tubes used here are strictly for personal use.
Do not change their names and watermarks and do not upload them on other websites.
Should you need to use these tubes for any other use than personal,
please contact me first for permission

You will need the supplies here and a tube.

Open your images. Copy and close originals

New image 430 x 280 px. Flood fill with a colour matching your tube. Here I used #D92390

Open Michel's tube Ligne01. Copy and paste as new layer on your working image

Duplicate the layer twice. Move the lines upwards (see the screenshot below). Stay on the upper layer. Merge down.
Duplicate the merged layer. Image => flip.
Now you should obtain this :

Layers palette => merge visible

With the magic wand (mode : add (shift) - feather 0) select the 2 spaces as shown here :

Flood fill with a colour to your liking. Here I used #F5B4F2

Effects => plugins => Filters Unlimited => noise filter => background noise 70. Apply twice

Effects => plugins => FM Tile Tools : blend emboss (default settings)
Selections => select none

Now with the selection tool and the following settings :

Repeat on the right side. You should get this :

Open the tube PassionBrushTube. Right click => copy.
Paste as new layer on your working image.

Layers palette => merge visible. Right click => copy.

Open a new image 600 x450 px - white

Right click => Paste as new image. Layer opacity 48

Open the tube Ligne01 - right click => copy and paste as new layer on your working image
Effects => plugins => FM Tile Tools => blend emboss (default settings)
Layer opacity 48.

Open the tube AmbaseLign01 - right click => copy and paste as new layer on your working image.
Move to the right (see the tag above)
Duplicate the layer. Image => mirror. Set the copy off.

Open your woman's tube. Right click => copy and paste as new layer on your working image.
Effects => 3D Effects => drop shadow : vert./hor. 1 - opacity 100 - blur 15 - colour #000000

Duplicate your layer. Image => mirror.

Set the original woman's layer off. Duplicate ALL the other layers, but the copies of the woman and the tube AmbaseLign01.
Set ALL the original layers off. Just have ALL copies visible.
Merge visible
Copy and paste as new image. See screenshot below

Go back to your working image. Layers palette => delete the merged layer.
Set all the layers visible.

Layers palette => merge visible

Image => add borders 3px - #000000
Effects => 3D Effects => cutout with the following settings :

Selections => select none

Image => add borders 5 px - here I used #D92390

Image => add borders 3px - #000000

Repeat steps 23 to 26 on your 2nd image. When done, copy and paste as new layer in your working image

Image => resize 30% (resize all layers option unchecked)

Move the small tag right down. See the tag above.
Duplicate the layer. Set the copy off and go back to the original layer

Effects => Reflection effects => Feedback with the following settings :

Set the upper copy layer on.
Effects => 3D Effects => drop shadow : vert./hor. 1 - opacity 100 - blur 15 - colour #000000

Layers palette => merge visible

With the Text tool your text and sign your tag.

Layers palette => merge all (flatten)

File => export as jpeg optimizer.

You are done !
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

Translated by Silmaril, September 7th, 2008.