Stars and Stripes Forever

Tube of choice, Elias Chatzoudis and Rion Vernon
Scrap used Stars and Stripes Forever by Gemini Creationz
Font of choice I used SwingSet BB
Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9

This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro,
All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity
with any other tutorial is purely coincidential.
Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog!

Open a new image 650x650 and flood fill white,
I am trying to make my tags smaller so I am going to start with
a bit smaller work area, this is your choice if you want
to make a larger tag.

Open gemini_s&sforever_p7 c/p as a new layer, and apply a
mask of choice, I used grungeframe10mask by bunnysattic

Now open gemini_s&sforever_frame3 c/p as a new layer
resize by 80% and then grab your magic wand and click
inside the frame opening, expand by 9 and then invert,
open gemini_s&sforever_paper11 c/p as a new layer,
hit delete, and make sure it is below the frame layer. Now
open gemini_s&sforever_foldedribbon2 c/p as a new layer
rotate to the left by 90% and arrange along the bottom of
the frame, now open gemini_s&sforever_fireworks3 c/p as
a new layer, arrange below your ribbon layer,now open
gemini_s&sforever_fireworks1 c/p as a new layer resize
by 75% two times and place near the bottom right of
the tag, Now open now open gemini_s&sforever_starwire
c/p as a new layer arrange along your ribbon at the bottom
of the frame, now open gemini_s&sforever_starcirclescatter
c/p as a new layer arrange to right above your mask layer,
Now open gemini_s&sforever_flower4 c/p as a new layer
arrange below the ribbon layer and resize by 48% place
behind the fireworks, now open gemini_s&sforever_flower2
c/p as a new layer arrange below the white flower and
resize by 35% now open gemini_s&sforever_flower3 c/p
as a new layer, arrange to above your white flower and
resize by 45%, now add a dropshadow of choice to your
tag (I did not dropshadow the fireworks I did add a small
graident glow to these and the star scatter) and a tube of
choice hide the white background layer and merge visible.

I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info,
it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right
information and Save the way you prefer to save tags,

I hope you enjoyed this tut
smiles
christy
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