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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

 

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.

 

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:

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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".

That's it, you are done!

 

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