Sweetheart Wave Tag

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Filters and programs used in this tutorial :-
Paint Shop Pro
Mura Meister Copies
Solidify from Flaming Pear
DSB Flux

Materials :-
My sg_tiny-heart tube Here Put into PSP's tubes folder
A font of your choice. The font that I used is called
Words of Love and is available from DaFont.com
A tube of your choice. I have used the work of Greg Hildebrandt
His beautiful artwork can be seen at www.americanbeautiesart.com

Step 1.
Go to File...New...and open a new image
Width=450
Height=350
Raster Background
Transparent

Open your tube in psp, go to Edit...Copy...
You can close the tube now.

Go to Edit...Paste as New Layer. Rename the layer 'tube'.
Depending on the size of your tube this layer may need
to be resized. If your tube is too large, go to
Image...Resize...Resample using Bicubic,
make sure the all layers box is unticked.
The amount of resizing will depend on the size of your tube
use my next screenshot as a rough guide. Move into position
with the Mover Tool, I placed mine at the bottom of the image.

The tube I chose runs horizintally across the image. It is
possible to use a vertical one (see my example at the end of
the tutorial), but some work better than others.

Step 2.
Go to Layers...Duplicate...Rename this layer 'coloured bg'
Go to Effects...Plugins...Flaming Pear...Solidify...
(we will rearrange the layers so your tube is visible
when we have finished with this background).
**If this gives you too dark a background try
this before applying the solidify filter
Click the area outside your tube with the magic wand, then
go to Selections...Invert...then Selections...Modify...Contract...
Contract the selection by about 10 pixels...
Selections...Invert...
Hit the Delete key. Deselect. Now apply the Solidify filter**

Next go to Effect...dsb flux...Blast...
Direction=Left
Percentage=30

Repeat the dsb flux Blast changing the direction to Right,
repeat again changing it to Upwards, then once more changing
it to Downwards. Yours won't be exactly like mine, the
colours and the amount of colour will depend on your tube,
but you should have something similar to this

Open the layers palette and drag this layer below
the 'tube' layer

Step 3.
The'coloured bg' layer should still be the active layer.
Activate the Selection Tool
Selection type=Rectangle
mode=Replace
feather=0
antialias=ticked
and drag the selection around approximately the bottom 3rd of the
image, or click the Custom Selection icon and use these settings
Top=230
Left=0
Right=450
Bottom=350

Go to Image...Blur...Gaussian Blur...
Use Radius=5

De-select

Step 4.
Open the sg_tiny-heart tube.
You can change the colour of this to suit your image
Go to Adjust...Hue and Saturation..Colourize...
Move the sliders to find a colour and saturation
level that you think goes with your image

Go to Edit...Copy...You can close the tube now.
On your main image go to Edit...Paste as New Layer
Rename the layer 'heart wave'.

Step 5.
Go to Effects...Plugins...Mura Meister...Copies...
In the dropdown list of presets choose Wave (horizontal)
and change the 'Number' to 18

Use the mover tool to move the wavy line of hearts upwards
the exact vertical position is up to you, but keep it's
horizontal position the same, because we need it to touch
the edge of your image on both sides.
This is my screenshot

Open the layers palette and drag this layer below
the 'tube' layer

Step 6.
Use the Dropper Tool to pick a colour from the wave of hearts
Go to layers...New Raster Layer...name the layer 'border'
Flood fill with the colour you picked
Go to Selections...Select All...
Selections...Modify...Contract...
Contract by 6 pixels, then hit the delete button on the keyboard
Deselect

Go to Effects...3D Effects...Inner Bevel...
use these settings

Step 7.
Make the 'heart wave' layer active
With the magic wand
Mode=Replace
Match mode=RGB Value
Tolerance=0
Use all layers=unticked
Contiguous=-ticked
Feather=0
Antialias=ticked
Outside
Click on the area above the heart wave
Go to Selections...Modify...Expand...
expand the selection by 1 pixel

Make the 'coloured bg' layer active and hit the delete key.
Make the 'border' layer active and hit the delete key.
De-select.

Step 8.
On the layers palette check that the 'heart wave' layer
is just above the 'border' layer, make the 'heart wave'
the active layer then go to
Layers...Merge...Merge Down...

Go to Effects...3D Effects...Drop Shadow...
Vertical and Horizontal= -2 (minus 2)
Opacity=50
Blur=5
Make the 'tube' layer active and apply a drop shadow
using the same settings

Step 9.
Go to Layers...Merge...Merge Visible...
Make the Selection Tool active then, Create selection
from layer opaque (the icon is on the Tool Options palette)

Go to Image...Crop to Selection...

Add Your text, using a font of your choice.
I used 'Words of Love' and applied a drop shadow to it with these settings
Vertican and Horizontal= -2 (minus 2)
Opacity=75
Blur=5

Add the copyright information for the tube that you used.

Step 10.
Add a new raster layer and drag it below the
merged layer in the layers palette
Flood fill the new layer with white, or if you are going
to place your tag on a page with a coloured background
flood fill with the colour of the page.

Here is another example I created using a different tube.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Thankyou to my very helpful testers
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