This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
April 10,2014
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a tube
by Ed Mironiuk. This tube was an
exclusive given to CDO Diamond Club
members in July 2012. You can find
his regular tubes at CDO.
This artist has left the company.

Mask MC_Mask11 by Melissaz
Creationz Blog

Plugins:
 Mura's meister Copies
Andrews Filers 2: Little Box
Xero: Greytinter

Open a 700x700 new image.
Open up a tube of choice.
You want one with a closeup
layer as well.

On your Materials palette,
select black for the foreground
color & hide the background
color for now.

Select rectangle preset shape.
Have this set to square shape.
Select your width to 5.00.

Draw out a good sized square.
Align - objects -center in canvas.
Convert to raster.

Copy and paste your tube closeup
as a new layer.
Apply the plugin Mura's meister
Copies: Wallpaper roate-
default settings.

In your layer palette, make sure you
are on the square layer - click inside
it with your magic wand.
Then back on the closeup copies layer.
Selections invert & press delete on
the keyboard.
Select none.
Move this layer underneth the shape layer.

Still on the closeup layer, apply the plugin
Andrews Filers 2: Little Box - default settings.
Then apply Xero Porcelain plugin to the same layer.

Select your selection tool. Holding shift button down,
do some random rectanglar selections on the
darker part of the layer. I did 4 selections in
various lengths & heights on mine but it is up
to you.

Once all selected, right click &promote selection
to layer.
Apply the plugin Xero: Greytinter - default settings.
Apply a drop shadow
Vertical & horizontal 2 Opacity 10 Blur 5
Color white.

Now copy & paste your regular tube.
Position as wanted on the tag.I mirrored
the tube I am using & then moved but that
is optional.

Select your font tool. Choose a font of choice
that compliments your tag. Set to size of choice -
I am using size 18 but it varies with tags & fonts.
Make sure the stroke width is 0.0.
Choose a color of choice for the background color
on materials palette.

Type out text of choice. I am using "Snake Charmer"
for my tag. Convert to raster.
Image - Free rotate. I did right & 90.00 This can be either right
or left depending on your tag.

Go to Effects-
3D Effects - Inner Bevel - choose Bevel 2 -
default settings. Apply to the text layer.
Duplicate this layer - image rotate 90.

Add a new raster layer above the bottom layer
of the tag. Fill wih a color of choice from the tag.
Apply the mask MC_Mask11. Merge group.
Resize this layer 80%.

Merge layers visible.
Add artist copyright information & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.