Malika Tag Tutorial

By LismibaebisCreations
26 September 2021

I used the awesome artwork of Adrian Chesterman.
I am allowed to use his art for free as group permission.
I belong to a group which has his permission to use his art - while being a member of that group.

Skill Level: Advanced Beginners
No outside Filters/Plugins used

This tutorial is my own creation; any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental

Program shortcuts will be given in parentheses

Needed

Paint Shop Pro - I used X2
(Tutorial will work with other versions)
Free 30 day trial from Corel, available here

Image

Tube of choice

Texture

LB_texture02.jpg, available here

Font

Font of Choice – I used Chamomile (Free to Use)

Performance Notes

This tutorial is in 2 parts:
- Preparation
- Tag

The settings for different Tools and Effects will stay the same throughout the tutorial, unless new setting instructions are given

Don't forget to save your work often

Click on the arrow and drag it to mark the progress on this page.

Preparation

1) Download LB_texture02 and place into your Texture Folder

2) File > Open
Open image of choice

3) Window > Duplicate (Shift + D)
Close original

4) Dropper Tool (E)
Left click to choose a light Foreground color
(I chose #ede797)
Right click to choose the color Black

5) Edit > Copy
Minimize

7) Flood Fill Tool (F)
Settings:
Match mode = None
Use all layers = Not checked
Blend mode = Normal
Opacity = 100

8) Left click to flood fill with Foreground color

9) Selections > Select All

10) Edit > Paste Into Selection

11) Selections > Select None

12) Adjust > Blur > Radial Blur
Settings:
Twirl = Checked
Strength (%) = 100
Twirl degrees = 33
Elliptical = Checked
Horizontal offset (%) = 5
Vertical offset (%) = 20
Protect center (%) = 0

13) Effects > Edge Effects > Enhance More

14) Effects > Geometric Effects > Pentagon
Settings:
Repeat = Checked

15) Effects > Distortion Effects > Lens Distortion
Settings:
Horizontal (%) = 0
Vertical (%) = 0
Distortion type = Fisheye (Spherical)
Field of view = 100
Edge mode = Repeat

16) Effects > Texture Effects > Sandstone
Settings:
Blur = 1
Detail = 21
Luminance = 13
Angle = 208
Color = Foreground color

17) Magic Wand Tool
Settings:
Mode = Add (Shift)
Match mode = RGB Value
Tolerance = 0
Use all layers = Not checked
Contiguous = Checked
Feather = 0
Anti-alias = Not checked

18) Click in the plain areas in
- Top left
- Top right
- Bottom left
- Bottom right

19) Effects > Texture Effects > Texture
Settings:
Texture = LB_texture02
Size (%) = 100
Smoothness = 0, Depth = 2
Ambience = 0, Shininess = 0
Color = White, Angle = 315
Intensity = 50, Elevation = 30

20) Selections > Select None

21) Edit > Paste As New Layer (your Tube)

22) Image > Resize (Shift + S)
Settings:
Width = 80 %
Height = 80
Lock aspect ratio = Checked
Resize all layers = Not checked
ok

23) Edit > Repeat Resize
Repeat until you have the tube showing to your liking.
Depending on the tube you work with, you might choose to resize in 50% steps to start with

24) Adjust > Sharpness > Unsharp Mask
Settings:
Radius = 1.00, Strength = 47
Clipping = 5
Luminance only = Checked
(Or a setting of your liking)

25) Move Tool (M)
Move tube to position of your liking

26) Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow
Settings:
Horizontal & Vertical = 0
Opacity = 80, Blur = 25.00
Color = Black
Shadow on new layer = Not checked
(Or a setting of your liking)

27) Layers Palette
Activate bottom layer
Layers > New Raster Layer

28) Flood Fill Tool
Left click to flood fill new layer with Foreground Color

29) Time to play:
Reduce opacity to your liking
and/or
experiment with different blend modes
I chose blend mode "Saturation (L)" with 100% opacity for this tag.
With another version I chose "Color".
(See bottom of this tutorial)

30) Layers > New Raster Layer

31) Layers > Arrange > Bring to Top

32) Selections > Select All

33) Flood Fill Tool
Right click to flood fill new layer with background color
(Or color of choice)

34) Selections > Modify > Contract
Settings:
Number of Pixels = 2

35) Edit > Clear

36) Selections > Select None

37) Layers > Duplicate

38) Layers Palette
Select bottom frame layer

39) Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur
Settings:
Radius = 5.00

40) Activate Top Layer
Layers > New Raster Layer

41) Add your artist's copyrights

42) Text Tool (T)
Settings:
Font = Chamomile (or Font of choice)
Size = 48 Points (or what suits your Font and Text)
Font Style = Bold (or what suits your Font and Text)
Alignment = Center
Direction = Horizontal and Down
Anti-alias = Sharp
Stroke width = 1.0
Create as Vector
Auto kern = Checked
Kerning = 0 (or what suits your Font and Text)

43) Type Text of choice and click on Apply

44) Layers > Convert to Raster Layer

45) Move Tool
Move text to place of choice

46) Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow
Settings:
Horizontal & Vertical = 1
Opacity = 80, Blur = 1.00
Color = black
(Or a setting of your liking)

47) Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow

48) Adjust > Sharpness > Unsharp Mask

49) File > Export > JPEG Optimizer
Settings:
Set Compression value to = 10
Chroma subsampling = YCbCr 2x2 1x1 1x1
Save Exif data = Not checked

You are done!

Example 2

I hope that you enjoyed doing this tutorial. If you have any questions, please email me:
Lismibaebi at gmail.com
I would love to see what you create with my tutorial.

A special "Thank you" goes to my Tester Group.
Your help, support and patience has made all the difference.