I used the artwork of Barbara Jensen for the examples in this tut. You need to buy a licence to be able to use her artwork. Please visit her website here for more information!
Pop my brush into your Brush Folder (I have included a jpg if you want to export it in) and drop my mask into your mask folder.
Open a new image 600 x 600 and floodfill with white.
Open the tube you are going to use for your background image.
Add a new raster layer and floodfill with a pastelly colour from your tube.
Layers > Load / Save Mask > Load Mask from Disk.
Locate my mask sweetmask37 in the dropdown menu and apply to your pastel layer with these settings;
Right Click on the mask layer in the layers palette and hit delete, saying yes to the pop up box.
Merge the group.
Lower the opacity of the mask layer to around 64.
Copy the background tube and paste as a new layer onto your tag. You need the tubes face to fill the mask layer so only resize if the tube is huge! Place the tube somewhere to the left of the mask layer.
With your freehand selection tool set to the following roughly select around the tube.
When you join the selection up it will expand.
Hit Selections > Invert then hit delete on the keyboard to give your tube a soft edge.
Deselect.
Position her where you are happy with her then move the tube layer down in the layers palette below the mask layer. Lower the opacity of the tube layer to around 42.
Make the white background the active layer and add a new raster layer. We are going to add some brushes.
Set your paintbrush to the following settings and locate my brush spiralheartsSS in the drop down menu.
On the new raster layer, using the same colour you used for the mask layer, apply the brush once to roughly the center of the canvas.
Duplicate the brush layer.
On the duplicate go to Image > Flip.
now move them slightly up and down respectively. When you are happy with the position activate the top brush layer in the layers palette. Right click and go to merge > Merge down.
We need to get rid of some of the hearts obscuring the tubes face.
Go grab the freehand selection tool and using the same settings as before (they should still be there) select the area you wish to be heart free.
Hit delete.
Depending on the colour you chose you may want to lower the opacity of the brush layer slightly to keep the soft look we are going for.
Once you are happy with the way everything is positioned hide your white background and merge all visible.
Make the background layer visible once more.
Now open up the tube you are going to use for the foreground.
Paste it as a new layer onto your tag and resize if needed.
Position her towards the right of the tag and apply the following drop shadow.
We are looking to give her a glow so repeat the drop shadow if needed.
Now go to Effects > Plug-ins > Eye Candy 3 > Perspective Shadow.
Apply with these settings;
Now apply your name.
I used Lanie Day set to vector, size 72 in the same colour I used for my mask and brush layers. You can position the text wherever you like the look of it. Add an inner bevel and the white drop shadow we used on the tube.
