This tutorial assumes you are familiar with your version of PSP and know where your tools are located. Workspaces can differ, therefore the screenshots and directions for the location of the tools used may not be accurate in your workspace. If you have problems finding a particular tool, use the program's help file and type the tool name into the "find" window.

Supplies Here:

Includes blank canvas image with selections saved to alpha channels and gold2.jpg pattern. Extract the gold2.jpg to your patterns folder. Extract the psp image to a folder of your choice, then open it in PSP. You will also need the following:

A font of your choice. I used Starstruck.
Mura's Copies (free filter)
Eye Candy 3.1 (available free - at time of writing, this link was good. If the link has gone bad, you can google it)
Toadies filters 1&2 (free filters)

Let's get started. Remember to save as a PSP file OFTEN! This tutorial is long, but not complicated.

1. Begin by opening up the alpha psp image I supplied. Hit Shift key + D key at the same time to duplicate the image and close your original for re-use anytime. Save the duplicate image as Suit-Up-yourname.PspImage.

2. Flood fill "white" layer with white.

3. Add a new raster layer and name it "checks".

4. Go to Selections>Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load Selection #1. Flood fill the selection with white color. Ctrl + D to deselect.

5. Go to Effects>Toadies> 3D Checkers and use these settings:

6. Add a new raster layer and name it "grid".

7. Go to Selections>Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load Selection #2. Flood fill the selection with the gold2 pattern. Angle=0 Scale=100. Keep selected.

8. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel & use these settings:

9. Deselect. (Ctrl+D)

10. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use these settings:

11. Hide your "white" layer in the layer palette by clicking on the eye icon as so:

then right click on "checks" layer and choose Merge/Merge Visible.

12. Double click on the "Merged" layer and rename "checkboard".

13. Add a new Raster layer and name it "club".

14. Go to Selections>Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load Selection #3.

15. Flood fill the selection with black. Keep selected.

16. Go to effects/Eye Candy 3.1 and choose Glass. Use the following settings:

17. Deselect (Ctrl+D). Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow and use same settings as before.

18. Add a new raster layer and name it "heart".

19. Go to Selections>Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load Selection #4.

20. Flood fill the selected area with red (#FF0000). Keep selected.

21. Go to Effects>Eye Candy 3.1>Glass..and use same settings as before.

22. Deselect (Ctrl+D). Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow and use same as before.

23. Hide the "checkboard" layer. Right click on "club" layer and choose Merge>Merge Visible.

24. Rename the "Merged" layer to "suits copies" and set the opacity to 50.

25. Right click on the "suits copies" layer in layer palette, and choose "Duplicate."

26. Rename the "copy of suits copies" to "suits" and set the opacity to 100.

27. Hide the "suits" layer on the layer palette.

28.  Activate the "suits copies" by clicking on that layer once in the layer palette. This is what you should have now in your layer palette:

Choose "Feedback(cicle random)" on the left and UNcheck the "Fade out to BG" box on the right.

30. Go to Selections/Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load Selection #5. Hit the Delete key.

31. Deselect. (Ctrl+D)

32. Unhide all layers.

33. Activate the "suits" layer by clicking on it once in the layer palette.

34. Grab your text tool. I used the font Starstruck (zip at the beginning of tutorial) but you may use any font you like.

35. Set your materials palette so that Black is your foreground/stroke color and red (#FF0000) is your background/fill color like so:

And the text tool settings:

Your size may vary depending on the length of your name.

36. Type your name somewhere near the bottom of your tag. Use the header image at top of page for general location.

37. Right click on "Vector 1" layer in layer palette and choose Convert to Raster Layer. Rename the layer "name".

38. Grab your magic wand and use these settings:

and click on a red part of your name.

39. Go to Selections>Modify>Select Color Range. With this window open, click on another red part of your name and use these settings:

This should select all (or the majority of) the red portions of your name.

40. Go to Effects>Eye Candy 3.1>Glass and use these settings:

41.Deselect. (Ctrl+D) Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow and use same settings as before.

***TIP ALERT*** Before doing a final save, you can go to Image ->Image Information and click on the "Creator Information" tab. In the description field, add the tutorial url (and other info, such as font used). Then save as a psp file. That information is saved along with the image. The next time you say (to yourself, of course...) "I wish I could remember where that tut is, you will have the information available in the image itself. Cool, huh?

42. Do a final save in psp format, then export as a jpg. You are done. :)

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and most importantly learned a new technique.