CheckMeOut

This tutorial was written by Laura Emch on July 29, 2007. You may link to it through your groups and print it out for future use, but nothing, including my ideas, are to be removed from this site. I used the artwork of Ted Hammond. You must have a license to use it; please visit CILM to purchase one.

You will need the following supplies:
Tube and font of your choice
Rectangle Template by me
Tiles by Nika aka Toxic Candy – thank you!
60’s Preset Shapes – open in PSP and export to shapes
Mask by Becky – please visit her site at Secrets of the Imagination
SUPPLIES HERE
Richard Rosenman Grid Generator
Cybia Screenworks
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow (optional)

1. Open a new transparent canvas, 700x600, and flood fill with white to give you a better idea of what you’re working with. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Resize as needed, being sure that “resize all layers” is unchecked. Give it a drop shadow.

2. Copy and paste the rectangle template provided as a new layer and drop beneath your tube, moving it to the bottom of your canvas and rename template. See finished tag often for reference.

3. Grab your magic wand tool and click inside of the upper left rectangle and bottom right rectangle, holding down your shift key to select more than one area at a time. Selections/modify/expand by 2.

4. Layers/new raster and drop this layer beneath your template. Flood fill with black and keep selected.

5. Go to Richard Rosenman’s Grid Generator with the default settings, but change the X and Y Grids to 10. Deselect.

6. Make your template layer active again. Click inside of the next two boxes with your magic wand. Selections/modify/expand by 2. Layers/new raster and drop one level. Flood fill with a color from your tube, keeping selected.

7. Effects/texture effects/weave with the following settings:

Deselect.

8. Back on your template layer, repeat the selection and layer process on your next two boxes. Flood fill with white and keep selected.

9. Effects/texture effects/weave, but change the settings to the following:

Deselect.

10. Back on your template layer, repeat the selection and layer process on your last two boxes. Flood fill with a color from your tube and keep selected.

11. Effects/plugins/Cybia Screenworks and choose Graph Paper:

Deselect.

12. HIDE your tube, original template layer, and white background. Layers/merge visible all of your colors.

13. Unhide your template layer and make it active. Give it a drop shadow:

14. Then merge your template with your colored boxes and unhide the rest of your layers.

15. Grab your preset shape tool and find shape B. Have your foreground width set on 4, color black, and background color null. Draw a long horizontal shape behind your tube and then convert to raster layer.

16. Click inside of the shape with your magic wand. Selections/modify/expand by 4. Layers/new raster layer and drop beneath your shape.

17. Flood fill with a color from your tube and keep selected. Alternatively, you can fill the shape with a texture or paper of your choice.

18. Layers/new raster, still selected. Open up the tile by Nika that you plan to use and colorize it to black, hue and saturation both at 0. Find this pattern set at 0 angle and scale at 100 percent. Flood fill with the tile. I used sblended02 and changed the blend mode on the layer palette to hard light. Depending on the colors you used, you may wish to play around with the blend modes to find one you like. Deselect.

19. Make the outline of your shape the active layer. Either give it the same drop shadow as above, or add a gradient glow: effects/plugins/Eye Candy 4000/ Gradient Glow. On the colors tab, choose “fat” and white. Then give it a drop shadow.

20. Hide all of your layers except for those “involved” with your shape and merge these, then unhide the rest.

21. Make your white background layer active and add another layer. Flood fill with a color, paper, or pattern of your choice. I used sblended19. Masks/new from image and find AF481, with “invert mask data” UNchecked. Masks/delete. Resize by 90 percent or so.

22. Feel free to add any embellishments that you would like, to give your tag some added OOMPH!

23. Add your text in a font of your choice. I used some alphas I collected from… somewhere?! Give it a drop shadow.

24. Add the appropriate copyright information and your watermark so that you both receive credit for your work.

Crop your image, save as a png file, and you’re finished! I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Thanks for stopping by!

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