Woman At Work

~ Woman at Work ~

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 "nice work". 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 Technical and Snappy Script fonts.
Scraps to embellish tag
Except for the screw driver which is Corel's, the others I made; they are included in my supplies.

The supplies I used are here.

~Let's get started!~

Make a new image 600 X 600
always give yourself plenty of room, one can always resize later, and remember to save often ;)
Flood fill with a color from your tube
I chose a blue #243278
Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds

Image - Rotate - Free Rotate; direction: left, Degrees: free 45, All Layers: unchecked, Rotate single layer around canvas layer: unchecked.
Crop center to make square.
Copy
Make a new image 600 X 600
Selections - Select All.
Paste into selection
You now have made a denim background, without using a plugin ;)
Open new raster layer.
Set materials palette
Foreground to nul, background to pattern; phone pole, angle 0, scale 60
Click on Preset Shape tool, rectangle: retain style unchecked, create as vector checked, anti-alias checked. Draw a rectangle, position. See tag for reference.
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - default settings

Add a drop shadow
The drop shadow I used was; 5vertical, 5horizontal, 48 opacity, 32 blur, #000000 color.
Click on text tool with foreground nul and background #000000. Click on shape just made, choose font, size, and type in desired text, position.
I used Technical, size 72
Add drop shadow
The drop shadow I used -2vertical, -2horizontal, 90 opacity, 3 blur, #AF6F49 color
Then a drop shadow of -2vertical, -2horizontal, 56 opacity, 7 blur, #000000
Copy, Paste as new layer each screw head you put add.
Position an put a drop shadow on them.
The drop shadow I used was; 2vertical, 2horizontal, 65 opacity, 10 blur, #000000 color.
Copy n paste the seam scrap as new layers, wherever you want.
I change the opacity on their layers to 70%
Add any other embellishments you want.
Copy and paste tube as new layer, resize if needed and position. Add Drop shadow.
The drop shadow I used was; -2vertical, -2horizontal, 65 opacity, 40 blur, #000000 color.
Now paste your tube as a new layer again, mirror, resize so that it's larger, erase anything that may fall below the wood shingle you made. Drop this layer behind the wood shingle.
Change opacity to this layer to make it fade in the background.
I changed mine to 28%
Open new raster layer.
Add Name to tag, position and add drop shadow.
I used Snappy Script, size 90, foreground #000000 and background #243278
with a drop shadow of -2 vertical, -2horizontal, 50opacity, 10 blur, #000000 color.
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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 - #243278 1 pixel, symmetric
Image - add borders - #FFFFFF 2 pixels, symmetric
Image - add borders - #243278 1 pixel, symmetric
Image - add borders - #FFFFFF 14 pixel, symmetric
Take magic wand; feather=0 , anti-alias checked, inside. Click on the inside of this white border. Then fill with pattern; phone pole, angle 125, scale 100.
Deselect
Image - add borders - #243278 1 pixel, symmetric
Image - add borders - #FFFFFF 2 pixels, symmetric
Image - add borders - #243278 1 pixel, symmetric
Image - add borders - #000000 21 pixels, symmetric
Take magic wand; feather=0 , anti-alias checked, inside. Click on the inside of this white border. Then fill with #243278.
Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds

Go to effects-inner bevel-and use preset- pillow.

Deselect.

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