Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
Tube of choice, mine is by Deacon Black and used with a CDO license
Font(s) of choice, mine are BN Dragon for the non fancy words, Bradley Hand, trashco, Kingthings Flashbang, Inspiration and CK Fingerpaint for the others. My name is MrKeningback.
Filters Eyecandy5 Impact Extrude, Penta.com VTR2, DSB Flux Bright Noise, Lokas 3D Shadow (optional), Eyecandy4000 Gradient Glow
Mask by BeckyMask22

First we will make the wordart.
Open a 600x300 transparent canvas. Google for a quote you would like, or maybe you have one already. ;o)
Use different fonts and shades of grey only to create the wordart, then you can easily recolour it. I put every change of font on a new layer, so I could easily rearrange afterwards. Crop and save as pspimage. Set aside for now.

Open a new canvas at least the width of your wordart and the height of the tube so it fits nicely with some space above and below.
Now resize the tube 85%, move it up a little. Take your symmetric shape tool, I chose the star with 5 sides, use colours from your tube as stroke (width 8) and fill, or choose some gradients that match your colour scheme. Draw out a star, create as vector, that covers your tube. Convert to raster layer and drag that layer underneath your tube layer.

Now on the star apply Eyecandy5 Impact Extrude, choose small Offset in the settings, on the basic tab change extrude distance to about 18. Apply penta.com VTR2. Add a dropshadow, with vertical set to a minus value and horizontal to a plus value. Change the opacity to 100, the colour to the stroke colour of your star. Check Shadow on a new layer.

On the shadow layer apply Effects/Imgae Effect/Offset horizontal 12, vertical 4, custom, transparent. And also DSB Flux/bright noise set to 100. Add your usual black dropshadow on the same layer. Duplicate the shadow layer and apply Effects/Distortion Effect/Twirl at strength 720. Give your tube a large blurry dropshadow, I used Lokas 3D Shadow for that.

Now go back to your wordart. Hide the non fancy wording and copy merged, paste onto your tag and move towards the bottom. Do the same with the plainer wording. Match them up again. Colourise the fancy words with Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colorize. If you can't get the colour right, take your colour picker and click on the colour you want on your tag. In the colour palette you see lots of numbers, make note of H (Hue) and S (Saturation) and type those in the dialog for colourising.

I also applied DSB Flux Bright Noise at strength 24 to my fancy words. Merge the wordlayer and give them a gradient glow and a dropshadow. Crop merged opaque. Floodfill the blank bottom layer with a gradient from your tube colour set to sunburst. Apply your mask and merge group. Add your credits legibly and your name, use the same gradient glow as you used on the wordart and a dropshadow, save as png.

My second example uses the art of Renee Biertempfel, who is also signed with CDO. Instead of a star I used a ding font called Sundings2JL, letter X. I used Ripple instead of Twirl. I also animated the ripple. The font for my name is Vujahday Flourish, I forgot which fonts I used for the wordart... lol.

This tutorial was created 19th June 2011, and is the sole property of ooh...babelicious. Similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental. Do not copy this or any of my tutorials, or any part of my tutorials, to another site unless you have express permission from me to do so. If you want to share, send the URL, do not direct link or offer on your site. Give credit where credit is due. Do not script this tutorial and offer to others.

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