*Open your tube and choose 2 colours from your tube.
Choose a light colour for your foreground and a dark colour for your
background.
*Open a new image 600 x 600 transparent.
*Fill the image with your foreground colour
*Copy your tube and paste it as a new layer on your 600 x 600 image.
*Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.
*Effects/Plugins/KPT 5.0/KPT 5.0 Blurrr go to Spiral Blur and put
Blur Radius at 130 px and Spiral Rotation Angle at 101.
Push the V in the right corner of your screen.
*Layers/New Raster Layer and pull this layer below your merged layer.
Fill this layer with your background colour.
*Layers/Merge/Merge All.
*Layers/New Raster Layer.
*Fill this layer with your foreground layer.
*Mask Load~Save/Load Mask from disk with these settings:
*Layers/Delete.
Layers/Merge/Merge visible..
*Go to your paint brush soften
With these settings:
Soften the edges of the clock.
Turn back the opacity of this layer to 60.
*Layers/Merge/Merge All.
*Copy your tube and paste it as a new layer on your 600 x 600 image.
*Put your tube to the left in the corner..
*Effects/3d effects/Dropshadow with these settings:
*Layers/Merge/Merge All.
*Image/Add Borders 5 px white.
Select the border with your magic wand and fill it with your dark colour.
Selections/Select None.
*Image/Add Borders with these settings:
Colour white.
*Promote your background layer to a rasterlayer.
This is very importent because i've you forget this step your image is
not
transparent.
*Select the border with your magic wand.
Selections/Modify/Contract with 5 px and push the delete button.
Selections/Select None.
Select the white border with your magic wand and fill the border with
your dark colour.
*Select the tranparant space with your magic wand and fill it with your
foreground colour.
*Selections/Select None.
*Layers/New Raster Layer..
*Put your foreground colour to the dark colour and your background to
the pattern in the zip.
Angle 0, Schale 100.Z
*Type your text with these settings:
*Move your text to the right place..
*Effects/3d effects/Inner Bevel with these settings:
*Effects/3d effects/Dropshadow with the same settings as before.
*Selections/Select None..
*Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.
*Image/Resize longest side 400 px.
All Layers checked method Bikubisch.
*Save your work as .jpg and your nametag is ready.
