Distortion Sig Tag

VM Distortion Sig Tag

You need:

PSP Version 7.04 30 day trial
Mura Meisters Copy HERE

VM Distortion: Download HERE We will be using Center mirror and Broken mirror.

Any Tube of your choose

1. Open the tube in PSP and duplicate it shift-D , close the original.

2. Open a new image 500 by 500 transparent background.

3. Click on your tube so that it will be active, Edit-->Copy, go back to the image and Paste as new layer name this layer Blur.

4. Effects > Plugins > VM Distortion > Center Mirror with these settings:

5. Effects > Plugins > VM Distortion > Broken Mirror with these settings:

6. Effects > Geometric Effects > Spiky Halo with these settings:

7.Duplicate this layer in your layer palette and name it distortion layer . Make sure that you're working on layer Blur for the next step and not on layer Distortion. Go to Effects > Blur > Gaussian blur with 5. Make layer Distortion active in your layer palette.

8. Go back to the tube and Edit--> Copy-->. Go back to the image with the Distortion and Edit--> Paste as new layer and your tube is there again name this tube layer. If your tube is very large go to Image resize and resize with % to the size you want don't forget to go to Effects --> Sharpen--> Sharpen.

9. Next you can do on two ways: 1.You can use Mura Meister Copy's with these settings: (or your own settings)

or you can place the tube on one side and then Duplicate the layer of the tube and Go to Image -->Mirror, duplicate the tube and place it on top of the distortion and last time duplicate that layer and go to Image --> Flip. Merge these 4 layers visible.

10. Effects --> 3D Effects --> Dropshadow with these settings:

11. Layers--> Merge --> Merge visible.

12. Set Foreground-color and Background-color to two colors from the tube.

13. Open the texttool (floating checked and antialias checked size 48) and click on your image, find a nice lettertype and place your name or something else on the image. You can do if you want :(Image --> Rotate with 45 to the left.)

14. Effects > 3D Effects > Innerbevel with these settings:

Effects > 3D Effects > Dropshadow with same settings we used before ( step 10). Deselect. Layers --> Merge --> Merge visible.

15. Edit --> Copy (the Tag) . Edit --> Past as new Image( you now have a clean tag with not to much white on the sides). Layers --> Merge -->Merge All layers. Image --> Resize with 75%. Effects -->Sharpen --> Sharpen.

Hope you had fun making this tag