Grid Guide

You will need a tube

Open a new transparent canvas 500x500

Chose a gradient that will match your tube-you need a linear gradient that hasn't any repeats or angles on it.

Flood fill your canvas with the gradient.

Click on view-grid. This will place a grid on everything that is on the desk top. Don't worry cause the grid will go when we have finished with it.

In your foreground box of the material palatte have black or white depending on your tube and gradient. If you used my tube then black looks better than white.

Click on eraser tool and have the square size 10 setting. Change the step to 200.

On your canvas count in three squares from the right top edge of the grid and 3 squares down. Click once in this square with the eraser tool- hold done the shift key and click once in the third square in and up at the right bottom of the canvas. You will now have a straight line of small squares.

Make another line to the left of the last one but two more squares to the left and in the alternate square to the last row as you can see in the finished tag.

Add a new layer and flood fill with black/white.

Layers arrange-send to the bottom.

View-grid-the grids will now go away.

Click on the gradient layer-effects-artistic effects-posterize-size 10

Click on the tube and file-export-custom brush-step on one and variance unchecked. Name the brush anything you like. I called mine red hat.

With the white/black in the foreground box of the material palette click on the brush tool and select the brush you have just added size 500. Click once on to your canvas over to the top right. If the brush doesn't work it may be because your tube was too big so you need to reduce the brush size a little until it does work.

Now click again on your tube and resize 80%

Copy and paste this onto the canvas as a new layer-arrange where you think it looks best.

Effects-3d-drop shadow-default setting.

Layers -merge visible.

Resize your tag to the size you want it to be when finished.

Have the black/white in the background box of the material palette and the foreground on null.

Add a new layer to your canvas and use 2 different types of font and add your text as I have done. Convert the selections to a new layer with each layer of text and reduce the opacity to 65% for a more subtle effect.

You can add any frame or border you wish. I added the film border but selected the small squares and filled them with my gradient then I added an inner bevel.

That's the tutorial finished. I hope that you enjoyed doing it.

Written by Chrissie 2006