Translated with permission from the creator, Duchessa.
You can make this with or without the animated bling and instructions are included for adding your name.
 


See the original tutorial here for PSP in Italian.
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Duchessa.
If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

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For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.
For this tutorial you will need:
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I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and Duchessa has done it in PSP X2.
I believe it can be done in most versions.
You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.

Filters and materials needed
Xero>Porcelain, available free here (it's in set 1)
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
The zip files include everything you need to make the tag.
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Credits
Tubes by LaManouche, Chrismist, and Toobs by Patty (no address found for her)
Bling by NMs Tutorials
Brush by PSPAgi
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I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.
Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.
           




 Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference
Preparation
Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open
so it will be available for use in PSP (or install the font)
Put the plugins into your plugin folder.
Put the brush in your brush folder (import it if it doesn't show up-Edit>Import>Custom Brush)
Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP (except for Nm_Falling_hearts_Anim-the bling),
duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals
None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use.
Step 1
Open a transparent canvas dimensions - 600 x 480
In your materials palette, change the foreground color
to #792a26 and the background color to #97544b

Change the foreground color to gradient, settings:
Foreground-Background, style Radial, Angle 180, repeats 7, Invert checked, H&V at 50
,

With your flood fill (bucket) tool, fill your canvas with this gradient.
Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur-Radius 25


Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance more
Repeat Enhance more
Step 2
New raster layer
(Layers>New raster layer or right click in layer palette and choose new raster layer)

Make sure the TextureRose image is open in PSP - delete the layer with the copyright
In your material palette, change foreground to pattern,
click on the foreground pattern to open the window,
now find the texture rose pattern and set at Angle 0 - Scale 100

Fill your canvas with your flood fill tool

Lower the opacity to 62, change blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)



Layers (or right click in layer palette)>Merge visible
Step 3
New raster layer
Change the foreground back to color (you've already set the right color at the beginning)


Activate your Paint-brush tool, select agiBrush0219_swirls
(if you don't see it, go to File>Import>Custom brush, find the brush and import it,
if it say it already exists, just change the name in the left panel,
and add it to the right panel and ok it.)


Move to the upper left as much as possible without losing any of the brush


In your layer palette, change the blend mode to Darken


Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 1-1-50-5-black




Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen


Layers>Duplicate (or right click in layer palette)
Image>Flip
Sharpen the duplicate, flipped layer or use the unsharp mask set at 1-60-2


Layers>Merge visible
Step 4
New raster layer
Activate your selection tool and pick the custom selection from the toolbar

Settings: Top 100, Bottom 380, Left 80, Right 560




Fill the selection with the color #792a26 (your foreground color)
Activate the tube - chrismist_1wp - Edit>copy (Control-C)
Return to your working canvas, Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Slightly move to the left, as shown

Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen

Selections>Invert>On the keyboard press the Delete key,
this will remove any of the tube over the edges of the selection
Selections>Invert
Layers>Merge down
Keep selected
Step 5
New raster layer
Change foreground color to gradient using the same colors
but change to Linear style, angle 45, repeats 5, invert checked


Selections>Modify>Expand by 6
Fill your selection with the gradient
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 3-3-50-5-black
Repeat with -3


Selections>Modify>Contract by 6
Press the delete key on the keyboard
Effects>3D Effects>Cutout, settings: 2-2-80-5-black


New raster layer
Repeat the cutout with -2


Deselect
Merge visible.
Step 6
Activate the tube le_chapeau3
Edit>copy (Control-C)
Return to your working canvas, Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Position as shown, moving right to the inside edge of the framed selection
Layers>Duplicate; Layers>Merge down
Repeat the duplicate and merge down, this will make the mist brighter and clearer


With your eraser tool, erase the bit of the veil from the right edge of the selection frame
Step 7
Activate your selection tool>Selection Type>Circle


Select a circle inside the globe the woman is holding


Activate the tube - PatrickSwayze3
Image>Resize to 20%


Edit>Copy (Control-C)
Return to your working canvas, Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L)
Position Patrick on the sphere, as shown in tag


Selections>Invert
Press the delete key on the keyboard


Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 6-6-100-64-white




Deselect
In your layer palette, lower the opacity to 62
Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen

Activate your eraser tool

Erase the parts of Patrick's lower face and the white shadow to reveal the woman's fingers.



Merge visible.
Step 8
Image>Add borders: 1 pixel foreground color #792a26, symmetric checked for all borders added


Image>Add borders: 8 pixels Black

Activate Magic wand - select the black frame
Make sure your material palette is on the same colors as before,
foreground #792a26 - background #97544b
Change foreground color to a Linear gradient: angle 45, repeats 7, invert checked


With your flood fill tool, fill selection
Deselect
Image>Add borders:1 pixel color #792a26


Effects>Xero>Porcelain at default settings of 50-128-128-0-0-255


You can save as a jpg here or you can go on and add your name (see step 9)
and/or add an animated bling (see step 10)
Edit>Copy (if you are going to add the bling and not your name)

If you are not adding your name and want to resize,
make sure you do it now before adding the bling.
See tips below step 10 on resizing, watermarking and saving.
(Optional) Step 9-add name if wanted
If you want to add your name, new raster layer.
Using your text tool, add your name and place where you like it.
I used Turbayne Running Hand, size 72, stroke 0.
I left the color palette as it was so the bg color (#97544b) was the one used for the text.


I added a drop shadow of 1-1-100-2-black


New raster layer, add watermark
Merge visible.
Edit>Copy (if you are going to add the bling)

You can save as a jpg now or you can go on to step 10 and add an animated bling.
If you want to resize, make sure you do it now before adding the bling.
See tips below step 10 on resizing, watermarking and saving.
Step 10-Animation
Open Animation Shop
Paste your tag as a new animation (or go to File>Open)
Also open the animation - Nm_Falling_hearts.  It contains 24 frames

Return to your tag and duplicate so you have the same
number of frames as the bling (24 in this case).
On first frame of tag, Control-A to select all.
You will see a blue frame around it, Control-C to copy,
Control-Shift-L to duplicate the frame after the first frame,
do this a few times till you get 12,
now Control-A to select all frames, Control-C to copy and Control-Shift-L
to paste all 12 frames at once, you will now have 24.
(If the bling you are using has a black or colored frame
for the first one, delete it, it's not needed).

Return to the bling, making sure you're in first frame,
Select all (Control-A)
Edit>Copy (Control-C)

Return to your image
Making sure you're in the first frame, select all
Edit>Paste into selected frame (Control-E).
You will see a small piece of the bling, the first part of it from the first frame,
it will not paste down till you hit the left mouse button, so first move to the upper left
as shown in my tag, place it to the downward V of the heart is right
at the top left corner of the frame, then click the left mouse button to paste it down.
If you've resized the tag, you'll either need to resize the bling (Animation>Resize)
or you'll need to move it over further to the right to make sure it will fit on the tag.
You will notice that it's in a different spot in the example tag just below, that's
450 pixels wide, and in the full size tag at the top of the tutorial, that's 600 pixels wide.

Now go to View>Animation to see if you like the effect.
If not, go to Edit>Undo paste to undo it and try again.


Save as a gif, using default settings
This will have a large file size due to the animation having 24 frames,
the larger the number of frames you have, the larger the file size.
Tips for Resizing
To resize, make sure, to retain the texture and the clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till you get close to the size you want.
At that point you can resize by pixels as usual. You will find this makes a big difference in your final result.
If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4.
or
Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15.
You can resize either in PSP or in Animation Shop.
If the size difference is going to be quite a lot, I prefer to resize in PSP before
animating, so I can use Unsharp Mask to brighten and sharpen after resizing.
Tips for watermarking and saving
Watermark: Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer.
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)
Save: File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.
If you've animated, you'll need to save it as a gif. I usually just use the defaults in Animation Shop.
l hope you had fun!
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Translated October 2008
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These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site,
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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
 Sadly, she passed away but her tutorials just came back online, thanks to PIRCNet.
You can find the tutorial here.
 The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "Love" tutorial header is Turbayne Running Hand.
(Click on the font names to download the fonts.)
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
 Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
 This is the address to Deb's old pages
 http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
 I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
 For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.