Alright, I promised to write this tutorial, so here I am. Gosh, this will
be a very very very long tut so I hope you have enough paper in your
printer and that your cartridge still contains enough ink :-)

For this tut you are going to need:

PSP7
a nice tube
a nice font

Open the tube in the zipfile in PSP. I love anime so that's why I've
chosen to use this tube.

Select your magic wand and with these settings:

select the transparent bits of your image.

After you've done this, go to selections, invert. Your image should
look like this now:

We are going to soften the edges of the tube a bit.
Go to selections, modify, contract and use these settings:

Again go to selection, modify, feather and use these settings:

With the marching ants still active go to edit, copy.......edit, paste, as new
image.
We now have our tube in a new image-window and as you can see with
softer edges:

I want to work with a bigger canvas size so let's resize this image. (you can
close the tube image now. Answer NO to 'save changes to anime7.tub?'.

Go to image, canvas size and use these settings:

If you have a small monitor you can also use 500x500.

Now we are going to add a vector-line to put our text on.
Click on your draw tool:
With the next settings you are going to draw a single line
under your image (hold shift down while you draw your line
for a straight line).

I've drawn my line directly under my image:

In your layer pallette you'll see two layers. Select the first layer, the one
with the image, we are now going to add our text.

Click on the text-tool . Move your cursor above the red line and when
you see this: click on the red line :-)

I've used these settings with font-colour #2E0C59 (the font you will find in the zipfile
on top of this page):

After adding your text go to effects, 3d-effects, drop shadow and
use these settings:

Just one more thing before you can save your tag. Click the selection tool
and drag it around the tag like so:

Now go to edit, copy..............edit, paste, as new image and you
have your tag !!! Save it (I save this as a jpg so you can only use it
with white backgrounds). Oh, answer YES to the answer 'because of the limitiations...'.

A bit tip now. Close the finished tag (the one you pasted as a new image) and go
back to your image with the red-line. It's still selected around the image
and text. Click ctrl-z and you will have your text selected again. Hit the delete button
and the text disappears but......select your text-tool again, click on the red-line
and you can apply a new line of text. You can use this file as a template as
much as you like now.  If you want to use it after you've closed it you have to save
this as a psp file. I usually do this with the floating-text layer in it.
Just go to file, save and enter your psp filename :-)

I hope this last bit makes sense !!! Any questions, feel free to email me !

Hugs,


(my end-result)

p.s. here you can download my psp file so you can see
how I save mine :-)