This tutorial is written in Psp 9 but can also be made in Psp 8.

  What do we need for this tutorial.

Mask.
Tube.
Eye Candy 3.1
Plugin Unlimited 2.0
Font.

  *Open a new image 500 x 500 transparent.

  *Open your tube and choose a nice colour from your tube.

  *Fill your image with this colour.

  *Effects/Plugins/Eye candy 3.1/Swirl with these settings:

  *Layers/New Raster layer and fill this layer with white.

  *Turn back the opacity of this layer to 20.

  *Layers/Merge/Merge all.

  *Layers/New Raster Layer.

  *Choose a dark colour from your tube and fill the layer with this colour.

  *Layers/Load~Save mask/Load mask from disk and search for the Sammy masker with these settings:

  *Layers/Merge/Merge group.

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

  *Image/Resize with 85% Resize all layers unchecked.

  *Move your tube down and to the left.

  *Move your mask layer something up and to the right so you can see it better.

  *Layer/Merge/Merge all.

*Promote your background layer to a raster layer.

  *Effects/Plugins/IC.Net Software/Filters Unlimited 2.0/Edges, Square/Square Edge 17 with the standard settings

  *Choose a light colour from your tube.

  *Type your text with these settings:

  *Image/Rotate/Free Rotate with these settings:

  *Move your text to the right place.

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

  *Selections/Select None.

  *Image/Resize longest side 400 px.
All Layers checked method Bikubisch.

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

  ÓSemantha 14-02-2005