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This Tutorial was written on October 25th, 2011 by Ashly
It is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy and do not post elsewhere.
This tutorial is written as if you have a general knowledge on how to use the program.

***What you'll need***
Program of Choice.
I am using Photoshop CS5

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of zebrush
You must purchase a license to use their work and you can do so HERE

Kit of choice.
I am using a FTU Sampler called “Purple Passion” by ChiChi Designs

You can download this kit HERE

While you're there be sure to take a look around at all she has to offer, you won't be disappointed.

Mask of Choice
I am using Mask62 by Weescotlass
You can Download that HERE

Filters Needed
Xero – Porcelain
Xero – Radiance

MuRa's Meister - Copies

~*~*~ Let's Get Started~*~*~

Open up a new canvas

600px x 600px.

Flood fill with white

Open Frame.

Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Scale down to 44%

Duplicate twice and arrange them the way you'd like to.

Use mine as an example.

Open Paper19

Resize to 600px by 600px

Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Move below your three frame layers

Use the magic wand to select inside the three frames

Select ---> Modify ---> Expand, by 4

Invert the selection and on the paper layer press delete.

Deselect.

Copy and Paste your tube onto your canvas.

Move this layer below your frame background layer

Filter ---> MuRa's Meister ---> Copies

Wallpapaer (Rotate)

All at default settings.

Filter ---> Blur ---> Radial Blur

Amount – 100

Blur Method – Zoom

Quality – Good

Filter ---> Sharpen ---> Sharpen Edges

Filter ---> Sharpen ---> Sharpen Edges

Filter ---> Sharpen ---> Sharpen Edges

Add your mask to this layer.

Go back to your frames and erase the parts that wouldn't be visible if you were looking at real frames.

Merge those three layers together.

Add a drop shadow to the one merged layer.

Copy and paste your tube onto your canvas again.

Move it to where you want it and resize to your liking as well.

Once you have that, duplicate this layer.

Hide the top tube layer for now and move the bottom layer below your frames in the layers pallate.

Erase any bits that are outside of the frame that you don't want seen.

Add a drop shadow to this layer.

Go back up to the top tube layer.

Erase the parts of the legs that are over the frames.

Filter ---> Xero ---> Porcelain

All a default except the blue channel, slide all the way to left to 0.

Filter ---> Xero ---> Radiance

Something subtle that'll brighten the tube back up.

Filter ---> Sharpen ---> Unsharp Mask

All at default.

Copy and paste your tube onto your canvas again.

Position this layer under the frames as well.

Edit ---> Transform ---> Flip Horizontal

Resize and position to your liking.

Ctrl + Click the thumbnail of the frame paper background.

Invert he selection and on the new tube layer press delete.

Change the blend mode to luminostiy.

Duplicate this layer.

Filter ---> Blur ---> Gaussian Blur

Radius of 5

Change the blend mode to overlay.

Lower the opacity of the bottom of these two layers to 50%

Now we're going to embellish the tag.

Do this to your liking and with a drop shadow of choice.

I used the following in this order:

Above the mask layer below the frame background layer:

EL1 (no drop shadow)

String

Leaves (I erased just a bit of the stem that was sticking out of the top of the frame)

Ribbon

Flower

Above the Frames Below the top tube layer:

Sparkles (no drop shadow)

Above the top tube layer:

FlowerString

Butterfly (color inverted and used below the flower to look like leaves)

Flower

Flower

Flower

Butterfly (I added an outerglow)

FlowerString (I erased a bit of the string dangling down)

Butterfly (I added an outerglow)

Butterfly (I made this black and white and added an outerglow)

Sparkles (no drop shadow)

Add your name to your tag.

Image ---> Trim

Top left pixel color, all boxes checked

Resize if you want to

*****Most Important*****

Add your copyright info to the tag.

If you're happy with what you've done hide the bottom white layer and then save as a .png

and You're done!

Thank you for trying my tut!

I'd love to see any tags made from it!

If you have any questions feel free to email me!

Thanks again and Huge hugs!

Ashly