Supplies:
Download here
Filter:
Unlimited2.0
Filter: Fotomatic Skygrad
Filter: NVR Bordermania
Filter:
FM Tile Tool
Download
here
Open a new transparent
image 500x311 pixels
Choose two colors from your tube
I used #B5948F as
foreground and #F6DBC6 as background
Fill the canvas with the
light color
Add a new raster
layer
Go to your Brush Tool and find the "Joyce Brush"
Change
your colors around so that the dark color is the foreground color.
Click twice on the
canvas with the brush.
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Effects /
Plugins / I.C.Net Software's Filters Unlimited / Edges,Square/ Square edge
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Effects / Plugins / Fotomatic /
Skygrad. I used the settings below,
but you can
choose your own

Edit / Copy ( so that it is placed in
the memory - we all sometimes need it ;-)
Layers / New Raster
Layer
Fill this layer with your light color
Drag this layer below the
merged layer
X-out the merged layer and activate the bottom
layer
Selections / Select All
Layers / New Raster layer
Edit /
Paste Into Selection
You still have the same borders, but we're going to
change that now.
Selections / Select
None
Go to your
Smudge Brush
Change the settings
as seen below
Size 71 Hardness 50
Step 25
Density 100
Thickness 100
Rotation 0 Opacity
100

We're going to smudge the borders by clicking on
the purple border and smudging it to the outside. Left click with your mouse
button and keep it pressed in. Drag the purple border color around and smudge
the borders a bit as seen in the example.
Adjust / Blur / Gausian Blur 3
Make
the merged layer visible again and activate it. Resize this layer to 90% and
make sure "Resize All Layers" is unchecked.
Effects/ 3D Effects /
Drop Shadow

Repeat the drop shadow but change Hor.
to 2 and Vert. to 3
Effects/ Plugins / FM tile tools/ Blend
Emboss x 1
Open your tube
Edit /
Copy
Edit / Paste as New
Layer onto your canvas
Resize to 73% - all
layers unchecked - and position it. You can reduce the size again with 73% if
you feel like it.
Effects / Plugins / Fotomatic/ Skygrad - with the same
settings
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Selections / Select
All
Selections / Modify / Contract by 10 Pixels
Effects /Plugins / NVR
Bordermania/ Frame 2 with these settings
Selections/ Select All and repeat the
Border Mania effect
Selections / Select
None
Your tag is
finished. We can add the text now.
Layers / New Raster
layer.
Activate your Text
Tool and choose a font.
I used
"LainieDaySH" size 72
I changed the colors
around so that the
foreground was the
dark color and the background
was the light
color.
Effecten/3D
Effects / Drop Shadow

Repeat the Fotomatic - Skygrad effect
on the text.
Layers / Merge /
Merge All
Resize image to 85%
and you're done ;-)
©Joyce 11-10-2004©
