Just Groovy

This tutorial was written on June 23rd 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 Keith Garvey, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit MPT - HERE .
Scrap Kit Used - 'Give Peace A Chance' by Hippiedaze (me) d/l from 4shared - HERE .
Template Used - Hippiedaze Template #022 by Me which you can d/l from 4shared - HERE .
2 Masks of Choice.
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 - White, click ok.

Repeat that step for the layers named merged rectangles using a different paper & delete the original layer. But no need to add the gradient glow to this layer.

Activate the Circle 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 - White, click ok, i also added a dropshadow to this layer.

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 magic wand and click inside the grey area so the marching ants are blinking, open a paper of choice in your psp workspace and minimise, go to your foreground tab in the colour palette and click, choose pattern from the tabs at the top and look for the paper that you just minimised in the pattern tabs, select this then take your floodfill tool and click inside the marching ants to fill with paper, go to selections and select none then activate the arrow layer and add a dropshadow.

Repeat the above step for the 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 1st mask that you saved at the start, a starburst mask will work well on this layer 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.

Activate the bottom white layer again and paste another paper from the kit as a new layer, repeat the step you just did for the mask using the 2nd mask you saved at the start, an edge mask will work for this layer.

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.

Activate the rectangles layer and paste a wordart from the kit as a new layer, resize as needed and take your deform tool to rotate it just slightly so its in line with the rectangle, go to layers, select duplicate and move this so its sitting inside another rectangle, use the deform tool here again to line it with the rectangle.

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.

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