What do we need for this Tutorial.

  *Tube tubed by @lice
*Font Border V1
*Font
*Toadies.

  *Open a new image 500 x 500.

  *Choose 2 colors from your tube a dark one for your foreground and a light one for your background.

  *Select your texttool and type mno (without space) with these settings.

  *Move the border your image should look something like this.

*Rename this layer to upside.

  *Duplicate this layer and rename it to bottomside.

  *Image/Flip

  *Turn of the visibility from the bottomside whe will use this later.

  *Activate the upside layer duplicate this layer and rename it to right.

  *Image/Rotate with these settings.

  *Duplicate the right layer and rename this layer to left.

  *Image/Mirror.

  *Select your movertool and put al the layers in the right position.

  *Your image must be something like this.

  *Make sure the bottomside layer is still locked activate your left layer.

  *Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

  *Duplicate your merged layer.

  *Make sure that the copy of the merged layer is the active layer.

  *Effects/Plugins/Toadies/Blast ’n Blur with these settings:



*Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

  *Activate your tube and resize it with 70% all layers checked.

*Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

  *Copy your tube and paste it as a new layer on your 500 x 500 image.

  *Make sure your tube layer is between the merged layer en de bottomside layer in your 
Layer Palette..

  *Effects/3d effects/Dropshadow with these settings.

  *Activate your bottomside layer.

  *Move the bottomside layer to the right position so it connects nicely with the rest.

  *Duplicate the bottomside layer make sure the copy of the bottomside layer is 
the active layer.

  *Effects/Plugins/Toadies/Blast ’n Blur with the same settings as before.

  *Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

  *Layers/New Raster Layer.

  *Type your text with these settings:
**Each character on a new line**

  *Effects/3d effects/Inner Bevel with these settings:

  *Effects/3d effects/Dropshadow with the same settings as before..

  *Move your text to the right position.

  *Selections/Select None.

*Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

* Edit/Cope/Past as new image.
Resize your image the longest side to 400 px.
All layers checked.

*Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

*Save your work as .jpg and your Tag is ready.

©Semantha 15-08-2004