Mosaic Tile Tag

Open your chosen tube in PSP. Shift+D to duplicate, then close the original.

Pick a light color from your graphic for the Foreground, and a darker color for your Background.

Open a new image 500px x 500px.

Flood fill it with your Foreground color.

Copy your tube and Paste it as a New Layer onto your new image.

Duplicate your tube layer.

Highlight the middle layer in your layer palate, the first tube.

Effects-Texture-Mosaic-Antique with these settings.

With the center layer still highlighted, go to Effects-Reflection-Kaleidoscope with these settings.

Now go to Adjust-Sharpness-Unsharp Mask with these settings.

Still on that center layer, go to Effects-3d-Drop Shadow with these settings.

You may wish to lower the opacity of this layer.

I did in the example at the bottom of this tut, but I loved the colors in this one and didn't :-)

Now highlight the top layer and give it a nice drop shadow, this is what I used.

Add text with a font of your choice.

I added a Drop Shadow to mine with these settings, and the shadow color white to make the dark font color show up a bit better.

Layers-Merge-Merge All.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Background color.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Foreground color.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Background color.

Image-Add Borders, 20px symetrical, your Foreground color.

With your magic wand, tolerance and feather at 0, click in the 20 px border.

Effects-Reflection-Kaliedoscope. The settings are the same as above, Except tick the Wrap button.

While still selected, go to Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur with these settings.

Selections-None.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Background color.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Foreground color.

Image-Add Borders, 3px symetrical, your Background color.

Selections-Select All.

Selections-Modify-Contract by 38.

Selections-Invert.

Effects-Distortion-Wave with these settings.

Effects-3d-Drop Shadow, with these settings.

You're Done!!

I hope you enjoyed it :-)

This tutorial is simply from my play. Any resemblance to other tutorials is accidental.

My Terms of Use for this tutorial are as follows: You may send the link to this tutorial, but Not the tutorial itself, to whomever you think will have fun with it. Groups are welcome to use the tutorial.