What do we need for this Tutorial.

  Vm Instant Art
Tube
Font

  *Open a new image 600 x 600.

  *Layers/New Raster Layer.

  *Effects/Plugins/Vm Instant Art/Vernissage with these settings:

*Click with your magic wand in the white arrea.

  *Hit the delete button once.

  *Selections/Select None.

  *Image/Resize with these settings:

  *Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

  *Colors/Colorize with these settings:

  *Duplicate this layer.

  *Image/Mirror.

  *Image/Flip.

  *Layers/Merge/Merge visible.

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

  *Make sure that your tube is 300 px high and copy it.

  *Paste your tube as a new layer on your 600 x 600 image.

  *Image/Rotate with these settings:

  *Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

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

  *Move your tube to a nice postion i moved mine to the right en down.

  *Layers/New Raster Layer this is your text layer.

*Lock your foreground and choose black in the background.

*Select your draw tool with these settings:

  *Draw a line your image must look something like this now.

  *Select a color from your tube for the background.

  *Move your text tool acros the line when you see the half circle below the A click.

  *Type your text with these settings:

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

  *Selections/Select None.

  *Remove the vector layer from your Layer Palette.

  *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