For this tutorial you will need the following supplies;

Paint Shop Pro trial version available here

My Supplies (Texture, shapes and frame) here

DSB Flux Bright Noise here

A tube and font of your choice. I used the awesome artwork of Barbara Jensen for this tag! You can purchase a licence to use her work. Please visit here and check out the tubes section.


Install the texture into your textures folder, the picture frame into your picture frame folder and the shapes into your shapes folder.

Open a new image 500 x 500 with a transparent background. Floodfill with white. Add a new raster layer. Choose a contrasting colour to your tube and in the materials palette turn on the texture setting.

Choose texture2sweet from the drop down menu and select a contrasting colour to your tube. Floodfill the new layer with the texture.







Depending on the colour you chose you may need to hit floodfill a few times to get a nice rich background.

Go to Image > Picture Frame.

Find Sweetframe1 in the drop down box and apply with these settings;







Merge visible and name this layer background. Resize by 85%.

Add a new raster layer and floodfill with white, send it to the bottom.

Select your preset shapes tool > Elipse with these settings.

Make sure the background is set to a darker contrasting colour from your tube.







Draw out an elongated elipse in the center of the canvas making sure that you do not hide too much of the background.

Go to Objects > Align > Centre in canvas.







Convert to raster.

Back in preset shapes select shape 'w' Select a lighter colour for your background and with the same settings as before draw out a swirl in the center of your elipse.







Convert to a raster layer and duplicate once.

Go to Image > Flip.

Still on the flipped layer Merge down.







Highlight the elipse layer in your layers palette and duplicate.

On the original layer select your magic wand and click once outside of the elipse.

Selections > Invert.

Selections > Modify > Contract. Contract by 2 pixels.

Selections > Invert. Hit delete once.

Selections > Select none.

Still on the original layer apply the following drop shadow;







Hide the background layer and the white layer and merge visible.

Duplicate the merged layer twice so you have three and rename them Elipse 1, 2 and 3.

With Elipse 1 the active layer go to Effects > Plug-ins > DSB Flux > Bright Noise.

Apply with these settings.







Highlight Elipse 2 and apply Bright Noise again with the same settings but this time click on mix once.







Finally Highlight Elipse 3 and repeat bright noise clicking mix twice.

Hide Elipse 2 and 3 for now.

Paste your tube onto the new canvas as a new layer.

Resize by 75% (or whatever suits the tube you chose) with bicubic resample and all layers unchecked.

Position slightly over to the right of the Elipse and apply the same drop shadow.







If your tube has a sharp edge at the bottom like mine does soften it out by taking your Freehand Selection tool with these settings;







Select all around the tube leaving a larger space at the top of the tube and selecting close to the area you want to soften.







Go to selections > Invert and hit delete a few times until you get the desired effect.

Add your © info and your name to your tag. For my text I used Black Chancery for the font with vector, line width set to one and the dark colour I used throughout for the background, white for the foreground.

Apply the following Inner Bevel to your Name;







Finish off with a drop shadow, vertical set to -2, horizontal set to 3, Opacity set to 25 and blur set to 3.

Now for the final bit, the animation.

In your layer palette make sure that elipse 2 and 3 are invisible.







On your tag to go to Edit > Copy Merged.

Open up Animation Shop and right click on the workspace. Paste as new animation.

Return to PSP. Make Elipse 1 layer invisible and Elipse 2 visible.

Edit > Copy Merged. Back over in AS go to Edit > Paste > after current frame.

Return to PSP once again and close off Elipse 2 and make Elipse 3 Visible.

Copy merged once more and paste over in AS after current frame.

Resize your animation by 85% and crop off any excess white areas.

Save as a gif and you are done!







All artwork on this page is © Barbara Jensen and is used with a licence.
Please visit her website here
To purchase a licence to use Barbara's work please check out the tubes section of her website

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©Angela Taylor (Sweet) 24.02.07