Golden Butterfly Tag

Here is what we will be making:

Supplies needed:

Paint Shop Pro 7 or higher version

This zip file with tube and font.

Open a new transparent image 500 x 500.

Set foreground to #5F3C11 and background to #DDB768. Then set your foreground to the gradient of these 2 colors; invert checked and angle 45. Flood fill your image with the gradient.

Effects>Art Media>Brush Strokes: Softness 83, Length 20, Density 59, Bristles 16, Width 10, Opacity 61, Angle 105 and color #808080. Click ok.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Duplicate your tube layer and hide the original tube. We will be working with the copy of the tube.

Go to Effects>Artistic Effects>Enamel and choose Custom 4 on the dropdown. If you don't have Custom 4, the settings are:

Blur 15, Detail 40, Density 13, Angle 225, and color #B2B2B2.

Effects>Texture Effects>Mosiac>Glass>columns 25, rows 25, Glass curvature 0, edge curvature 0, Grout width 10, Grout diffusion 20.

Unhide your original tube layer, and bring it to the top of your layer palette. Move the 2nd tube layer up and to the left a bit.

Duplicate your copy that you worked on 3 times.

Go to one copy, image>flip.
Next copy, image>flip
Next copy>image>mirror.

Arrange your copies to your liking or the way I have them arranged.

Your original tube should be your top layer.

Working on your top layer, Effects>Drop Shadow>Vertical & Horizontal -10, Opacity 60, Blur 20 and color black.

Repeat the drop shadow with the same settings one more time.

Add a layer, add your watermark.

Change your foreground color to black, and background to null.

Go to your preset shapes, choose Ellipse, Anti-alias and Vector checked. Draw out a circle around your tag.

Set your background to the gradient we used earlier to fill our tag. Foreground to black.

Take your text tool and make sure floating and antialias are checked. Set your stroke to 1.

With a font of your choice, position your mouse on the circle until you see an "A" where your mouse is, and type in your text.
If the text is not positioned where you like it, you may use the spacebar in your text box or hit cancel and try again.

Once your text is where you want it, you may delete the circle vector layer. Do NOT deselect your text!

Apply the same drop shadow as we used before to your text, or any other effect that you like.

You may now deselect your text.

Merge all your layers; Image>resize all layers checked, 80%.

Image>add borders>5>symmetric>color black.
Image>add borders>8>symmetric>color white.

Click the border with your magic wand and fill with a gradient  or whatever you like to finish off the frame.

You may resize your tag again if you wish, save it as a .jpg and you're done!

Special thanks for my tut testers, Chrissie, Maverick,  KJW, Juppin & Beachwalker...

Jess. cbangel and Luci thank you too!!!

Want to see more of their beautiful work?  Click here ; and  for Jess, Mary Ann, Evey, cbangel & Luci click here.

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