Strawberry Pirate Tutorial

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
Tube of choice, mine is by Annie Rodrigue and used with a CILM license
A rounded mask, mine is from Vix, it's Mask11, put it in your mask folder
Font(s) of choice, mine are GC Channel F Standard for the credits, and Bones for the name
Filters: MuRa's Filter Meister Copies and Tronds Filters 1
Optional:Flaming Pear Superblade Pro with m_coconutice preset, extract the contents into the environments and textures folder of SBP.
You should have a basic knowledge of working in psp.

Open a new image, transparent, 500x 500px. Floodfill white. Paste your tube as a new layer, resize it so there's plenty of room around it.
Go to Effects/ Muras Meister Copies and find the preset 'Glob' and apply it.
Go to Layers/ Load/ Save Masks and find VixMask11, apply it and merge group.
Now go to Effects/Tronds Filters and apply Brodere I. Take your magic wand, set the tolerance to 1, feather to 0, click on a black bit which should select all of the black surrounding the dots and delete. Selections invert.
If you have Superblade Pro, click the cd button with the arrow pointing right and browse for m_coconutice preset, double click it and then apply.
If you don't have it, use the inner bevel with these settings.

Selections/select none. Duplicate the layer and apply a gaussian blur of 3,00 to the original layer.
Make the toplayer active again and paste the tube, resize it if necessary and add a dropshadow.
If you need to resize, do it now, before adding the credits.
Take your text tool, create as vector, and write out the credits, if you use the same font as me, you need to turn antialias OFF!!, and set the size to 6 (type it in).
Then type out the name in your other font (antialias sharp again), the fill is a dark dark colour, the stroke a light colour, width 1, same dropshadow as the tube.
You can drag the name layer under the tube as I did, just activate it in the layer palette and the pull it down with the mouse.
I had a little bonus item with my tube, so I placed it behind the name. Delete the white layer, activate the crop tool, snap crop rectangle to merged opaque, save as a png.
Hope you found a new filter and enjoyed making your tag. ;o) Here is another example.

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