Cool Skool

This tutorial was written on June 20th 2009 by Susan aka Hippiedaze.
The idea for this tag is off my own head lol and any resemblance is purely coincidence.
General Knowledge of psp is required, tutorial was written in psp 9 but will work in other versions.

Supplies Needed

Tube of Choice, I used the artwork of Kenny Kiernan, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit AMI - HERE.
FTU Scrap Kit Used - 'Skool Daze' by Sammygirl @Sd Scraps - HERE .
Template Used - Hippiedaze Template #022 by Me which you can d/l from 4shared - HERE.
Mask Used - WSL Mask #84 by Chelle @ Wee Scots Lass Creations - HERE.
Plugin Used - Eye Candy 4000, Gradient Glow.
Font of Choice.

(Open all supplies and save mask to psp folder before you begin)

Lets Get Started

Open the template, hit shift & d on your keyboard,this pastes the template as new image, close the original template. Delete the info layer.
Go to image and choose resize, select width & height to 90%, smartsize checked and make sure the tab resize all layers is checked, click ok.
Click on the bottom white layer and go to image, select canvas size then choose 500x500, click ok, if there is any transparent image showing grab your floodfill tool and fill with white.


Activate the Large Flower Shape layer, go to selections, select all, select float, select defloat then paste a paper from the kit as a new layer, resize if needed then go to selections again and select invert then hit delete on your keyboard, back to selections and select none, delete the original layer.
Add a gradient glow by going to effects, select eye candy 4000, gradient glow, use the following settings :-
Glow Width - 3.00 .... Soft Corners - 25 .... Overall Opacity - 100 .... Colour - Black ... move the colour slider half way along to the centre to give a bolder glow effect. click ok.

Repeat that step for the layers named merged rectangles using a different paper & delete the original layer.

Activate the Circle Dotted layer, go to adjust, select hue/saturation/lightness and then choose colourise, pick a colour that matches your tube/tag to colour this layer, click ok.

Do this again on the Circle frame layer & add a gradient glow by going to effects, select eye candy 4000, gradient glow, use the following settings :-
Glow Width - 3.00 .... Soft Corners - 25 .... Overall Opacity - 100 .... Colour - Black ... move the colour slider half way along to the centre to give a bolder glow effect. click ok.

I left the merged rectangle frames layer white and added the same gradient glow to this layer.

Activate the arrow 1 layer, grab your magice want and click inside the grey area so the marching ants are blinking, go to adjust, select hue/saturation/lightness and choose the same bright colour used on the circle frame, click ok, now go to selections and select none, go to effects and add the gradient glow to the whole arrow.

Repeat the step on arrow 2 layer.

Activate your bottom white layer, paste a paper of your choice as a new layer, go to layers, select load mask from disc and choose the mask you saved at the start (WSL Mask #84) and use the following settings :-
Fit to canvas - checked .... Source luminace - checked .... Invert transparency - unchecked .... Hide Mask - checked, click ok, go to layers, merge group, use your deform tool to stretch the mask layer out a little till its how you want it.

Now take a swirl of your choice from the kit and paste as a new layer, resize this a bit and place where you like it so it shows from behind the flower shape layer, use your deform tool to rotate it if you want to, go to layers, select duplicate then go to image, select mirror so you have 2 swirls, i also added a different swirl and left this one quite big , the choice is yours.

Activate your top layer now and paste tube as a new layer, resize as needed then place where you like it and add a dropshadow.

Add any other elements from the kit that you wish, place each element as a new layer and resize as needed, elements should be resized smartsize, add a dropshadow to each layer or add the gradient glow to some elements.

Crop or resize your tag now if you want to or didnt at the start.

Add your name, artist info and copyright info.
Save as jpeg or .png.

and we're done i think lol.

Thanks for trying my tutorial and i hope you enjoyed it

would love to see your results,

hippiedaze@hotmail.com