You will need a background tube-a flower tube and a face tube

WARNING -If you use your own tubes you may need to adjust some of the resizing later in the tutorial

Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500

Select All-copy and paste the background into the selection-minimise the background tube for later

Copy and paste the flower tube into the selection-minimise the tube for later

Select none.

Reduce the opacity to 57%

Copy and paste the face tube into the selection and arrange to the right/ bottom of the canvas.

Minimise for later in the tutorial.

Image-arithmetic -settings as in the screenshot.

Image- resize 50%-minimise for later in the tutorial

Image arithmetic-this time change Image #1 to the face tube.

Image-resize-50%. minimise for later in the tutorial

Maximise the canvas with the three tubes on it

Maximise the first arithmetic canvas you did with the background and the flower.

Copy and paste this as a new layer onto your big canvas-arrange as you wish-

use my tag as a guideline if you use my tubes

Effects-3d-drop shadow. H and V 2 Opacity 100 and blur 5-colour black

Repeat the drop shadow but change the H and V to minus -2

Copy and paste the face canvas as a new layer and add the same drop shadows as before.

 Arrange where you like it best.

When you are happy layers-merge visible

Image -resize 85

Edit-repeat resize

Image-add border-size 5 -white

Select this border with your magic wand.

In your foreground box of the material palette look for the pattern of your tag so far.

Settings on angle 50 and scale 24

Flood fill the border with this pattern and add an inner bevel-settings as in screenshot

Select none

With pen tool on settings in the screenshot

N.B the important settings are the line mode and check the vector

Click once on your canvas where you want your text to begin

Hold down your shift key and click again where you would like the line of your text to go

Use your own colour and text-I used a gold fill pattern and-comic sans font on size 72.

Click on text tool-setting on floating-and then find the point on the line with your cursor where the A appears.

Type your text then delete the vector layer in your layer palette

Add a drop shadow to your text.

That's the tutorial finished.

I hope that you enjoyed doing it

Written by Chrissie January 2006