Halloween Tag

You will need the following items:

Materials Here
Texture, Gradient,or stained Glass (I used a gradient "or" and have included it in Zip)
Diamond Template (Included in Zip)
Tube of your choice, or I have included the one I used in the Zip

Halloween Spiders Font

Eye Candy 3.1


Unzip diamondtemplate and open in PSP. Hit Shift/D to duplicate to a new image then close the original diamondtemplate.

Set your texture, gradient or stained glass in your background pallet if this is what you have decided to use.

On the diamondtemplate,go to the layer palette and highlight the "top" layer. With the magic wand set at tolerance 0, feather 0, sample merged unchecked, select one of the black lines. Selections, modify, select similar.
Layer-Add new Raster layer.
Flood fill with texture, gradient or stained glass. Delete "top" layer.

Open Eye Candy - Inner Bevel with these settings:




Deselect. Close out "top" layer

Repeat instructions of "bottom" layer for bottom layer.

With bottom layer still highlighted, go layers and add a new layer.

Go to the tube you have selected and copy. (I chose "MoonNbat") Go back to your new image and paste as new selection. Resize 75%. Place your image where you would like it. It will appear to be in the middle of the diamond.



On the layer palette, highlight the top layer and add a new layer.

Open your witch tube, I chose "CherSwitz~sheet halloween 4_BW". Copy and go back to your new image and paste as new selection. Resize 75%. Place you image so that it looks like she is sitting on the top bar of the diamond.



Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen each layer.

Make sure the top layer is selected and add a new raster layer.

With the eyedropper tool, select two colors from your image for background and forground colors. Open your text tool and select the font you wish to use. I have used Halloween Spider. You can set the size to whatever size looks best for your font you are using. Arrange your wording below the diamondtemplate as shown.

Eye Candy - Inner Bevel using same settings.

Deselect.

Layers/Merge/Merge Visable.

Image/resize. Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen. Save as a gif image.

NOTE: I have not added any drop shadows to any of the layers as you see, however if you know the background that you will be placing your tag on, you can add the drop shadows.


Hope you had fun making your tag!