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Torn Mosaic Tag
| Supplies Needed:
1. Paint Shop Pro (duh). Any version
you have, but I'm using 8. Version 7 has the same filters, but in
different places.
2. Tube of your choice- You can
download the one I used on my "Beautiful Faces" tube page. It
would be the Face Nine tube.
3. DBS Flux Filter
4. Xenofex 1.1 Filter
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| Step One:
Open up the tube you are going to
use, and copy it. Click on "Edit" and then "Paste" and then "Paste
As New Image". Close your original tube. This way you are
working on a copy of the tube, and won't ruin your original.
Step Two:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Image" and then "Greyscale". Click on "Image"
again, and then choose "Increase Color Depth" and then 16 Million
Colors. |

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| Step Three:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Selections" and then "Select All" and then "Float".
Then click on "Layers" and then
"New Raster Layer" with the properties listed on the right: |

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| Step Four:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Effects" and then "PlugIns" (This could be 1 or 2 depending on
where you have installed your plugins) and then to "DBS
Flux", choose "Electrosphere" with the default settings.
Go up to "Selections" and then
"Select None".
Go up to "Layers" and then "Merge"
and then choose "Merge Visible".
Go up to "Edit" and then "Copy"
Minimize the image, we will be using
it later.
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| Step Five:
Open up a new image 400 X 350 pixels
with a transparent background. Go up to "Edit" and then "Paste"
and then "Paste as new layer".
Go up to "Image" and then "Resize"
and resize the layer by 80% making sure the box next to "Resize
all layers" is NOT checked.
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| Step Six:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Effects" and then "Distortion Effects" and then on "Twirl" using
these settings:
Degrees: 360
On your top tool bar, click on
"Effects" and then "Texture Effects" and then on "Mosiac-Antique"
and use these settings:
Columns: 50 Rows: 50
Symmetric: Checked Tile Diffusion: 100 Grout Width: 2
Grout Diffusion: 50
Repeat the step above so that you
have applied each filter twice. |

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| Step Seven:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Layers" and then "Merge" and then "Merge All".
Using your crop tool,
crop your image so
that you have the middle part of your image to use as your tag.
Once you have cropped your image,
go up to "Layers" and then to "Promote Background Layer"
Resize your layer by 80% making
sure the box next to "Resize All Layers" is NOT checked.
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| Step Eight:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Effects" and then "PlugIns" (This could be 1 or 2 depending on
where you have installed your plugins) and then to "Xenofex
1.1", choose "Distress" with the following settings:
Edge Width: 44 Irregularity:
47
Edge Type: Rough
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| Step Nine:
On your top tool bar, click on
"Effects" and then "3D Effects" and then "Drop Shadow" and apply a
drop shadow using the following settings:
Vertical Alignment: 1 Horizontal
Alignment: 1 Opacity: 74 Blur: 3.95 Color: Black
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| Step Ten:
Open up your image that you minimized
earlier and copy and paste it as a new layer on the background
that you just made.
Resize the layer by 50% so that
the top and bottom line up with the background, and move it to the
far left of your background. |

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| Step Eleven:
On your layer palette, reduce the
opacity of this layer so that a little of the mosaic pattern shows
through. I have my opacity set at 74%.
If you don't want the mosaic
pattern to show through, then just skip this step and go on to the
next. |

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| Step Twelve:
Click on your selection tool
, and use
these settings:
Selection Type: Ellipse Feather:
35
Select around the left portion of
the face, and then go up to "Edit" and then "Clear". Do this for
the top and bottom of the face tube also. |

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| Finishing Up:
Go up to your top tool bar and choose
"Layers" and then "Merge" and then "Merge Visible". You can at
this point resize your image, I happen to like to work on them
big, but I like smaller tags.
You would at this point add whatever
name or text you want on the tag.
As a final step, you would go to
"Layers" and then "Merge" and then "Merge All".
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That's
it, you are done!
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