Naughty Thoughts

~ Naughty Thoughts ~

This tutorial was written by me, and any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental.
This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

For this tutorial you will need
Paint Shop Pro. I used PSP8 but it can be done quite easily with any other version.
A tube of your choice . Remember to use appropriate copyright as it applies to the artists TOU's.
I used the wonderful art of Popeye Wong www.popeyewong.com entitled "thinking down". He has many Erotic cartoon tubes at his site and graciously offers any of them free for psp'ers.
Fonts of your choice
I used Fabulous 50's, Angryblue and Snappy Script Light fonts.
Brush/es of your choice
I used maras-dream
I can't seem to find where I picked up this brush, if anyone can let me know I would gratefully acknowledge their work.
MuRa Meister Copies 1. 3 which can be found here

The supplies I used are here.

~Let's get started!~

Make a new image 400 X 400
set your background to a dark color from your tube, and your foreground to the gradient: fading foreground
I chose a #790B0C
Flood fill image
Copy and paste tube as new layer, resize if needed and position.
Now paste your tube as a new layer again, mirror, resize so that it's larger, Drop this layer behind the other tube layer.
Change opacity to make it fade into the background.
I changed mine to 24%
Copy merge
Open new image 600 X 600.
Flood fill with white.
Open new raster layer.
Change gradient to angle 180 and keeping same color, flood fill image.
Open new raster layer. (we will get back to this layer soon)
Paste as new layer, position. (see tag)
Add drop shadow, check shadow on new layer.
The drop shadow I used was; 3vertical, 3horizontal, 100 opacity, 30blur, #000000 color.
Change opacity of block to 60 % and the shadow layer to 52%
reason for this is because it being a transparent gradient.
Take your tube, copy paste as new image.
Go to Effects - Plugins - MuRa Meister - Copies, with these settings

Copy. Now go back to other image.
Go to the new raster layer you had made thats below the block.
Select all.
Paste into selection. Change opacity on this layer.
I changed mine to 26%, but its up to you and what you want your image to look like.
Now, go to the block layer. Selections - select all - Selections - Float
Now go to the copies layer you just did, hit delete.
Now, go to your gradient layer that's below the copies layer.
Click on your brush tool, choose maras-dream with the shown settings

Add New raster layer, Take your brush and do a full swipe around your tag, play with it until you have the effect you want.

Now go to your top layer. Copy paste your tube as a new layer, position where you would like it. (see tag for suggestion)
Add a drop shadow to your tube.
The drop shadow I used was; -9vertical, 13horizontal, 47 opacity, 24 blur, #000000 color.

Now for your text. It's entirely up to you what you write and do for your tag, the following is what I had used and done for the tag above.
Open new raster layer.
Click on text tool with foreground #000000 and background #FFFFFF.
I used Fabulous 50's, size 125, stroke 2
Add drop shadow on separate layer
The drop shadow I used -2vertical, 8horizontal, 46 opacity, 6 blur, #000000 color
I then went to the shadow layer and changed opacity to52%
Second text, I set foreground to nul and background to #000000
Open new raster layer.
I used Angryblue, size 48
Position an put a drop shadow.
The drop shadow I used was; 2vertical, 2horizontal, 88 opacity, 0 blur, #FFFFFF color.
Then a drop shadow of; 2vertical, 2horizontal, 88 opacity, 0 blur, #000000 color.
Open new raster layer.
I used Snappy Script Light, size 72, #272861
Position an put a drop shadow, with shadow on separate layer.
The drop shadow I used was;4vertical, 7horizontal, 51 opacity, 7 blur, #000000 color.
In the tag above I decided to omit the colored layer of the text and just leave the shadow
What you do will be entirely up to you..
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Open new raster layer.
Now for the icing on the cake, the border, then we'll be done.
Now, 'copyMerged' your tag and paste as new image.
I do this so that I can save my bases, so at any time I can go back an change or add.
Image - add borders - #FFFFFF 1 pixel, symmetric
Image - add borders - #000000 1 pixels, symmetric
Image - add borders - #7B0E0F 14 pixel, symmetric

Take magic wand; feather=0 , anti-alias checked, inside. Click on the inside of this 14 pixel border. Then go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel with these settings

Deselect
Add your watermark, and if any other copyrights/licenses.
Save your tag as a jpg file.

Congratulations!! you finished your tag
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The sky's the limit when using your imagination, I hope this tut will open the possibilities that your creativeness can do.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any problems or questions please feel free to contact me.

Mel/Blue