1. Open Graphics and mask in psp, copy and paste then close the originals.

2. With both of your graphics, go to layer palette, then right click on background and promote background to layer

3. We will be working with Ocean of tears graphic, but don’t worry about how big it is, we will be resizing it later.

4. Change the colour to a colour of your choice using Colourize Go Adjust, Hue and Saturation, Colourize

5. Choose a colour you like, but make sure not to have the colour too dark. Here’s the colour I used

6. We are going to add the mask to our graphic, Layers, loads/save mask, load mask from disc, click yes at prompt. Look for

nik-warpedreflections using these settings

7. In layer palette, right click, delete mask, click yes, right click on group, merge layers.

8. Bring up your remaining graphic, copy, paste as new layer onto the graphic we have been working on.

9. Layers, move down.

10. Rename layers, Ocean view (Top layer) and Pier or birds for your bottom layer.

11. Change the blend mode on Ocean view to Soft Light

12. Crop off excess background now, just below the white on the pier background

13. Add new layer, move to bottom

14. Flood fill with colour, something that matches the colourizing you did, I used #da8b49

15. Reduce the opacity of your Pier layer to 72

16. Duplicate your Ocean view layer, close off all layers accept your Ocean View layer and new copy, merge, merge visible.

17. View, view all

18. Now we are going to add some nice effects to our graphic.

19. Go to Effects, Texture Effects, Blinds, using these settings, colour of your choice, I used #fbdcc0

20. Change the blend mode on Ocean view to Soft Light again

21. New layer

22. Selection, Loads/Save Selection, Ocean of Tears_Ms selection

23. Flood fill with colour of your choice, I used #fbdcc0

24. Change blend mode to Hard Light

25. Selections, select none

26. Right click, duplicate

27. With your copy highlighted, Image, Flip, Image, Mirror

28. Back to first selection we did (Top one)

29. Effects, Distortion Effects, Wind

30. Wind direction, from left, Wind strength 100

31. Click on the copy of your selection (Bottom one)

32. Add Wind effect again, but change the Wind direction to From Right

33. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

35. Pick a darker colour than the one you used for your selection, we need a contrast, if you chose a dark colour then the opposite applies, or you could use white. I used #da8b49

36. Choose a nice script font, Vector, size 30 and click on your graphic

37. With your text surrounded by Vector, adjust it so that it fit’s nicely into your selection, like so…

38. Add drop shadow with these settings

39. Merge, Merge Visible

40. Using a thick font, on your colour palette, click the bottom colour palette off (Hide)

Same colour, size 100, Vector, stroke 1

41. Place in bottom Left hand corner of your tag

42. Convert to rastor layer

43. Add same drop shadow as before Nearly finished now LOL

44. Choose a nice script font, you can use the same one as your quote if you want. And add your name again, we are going to place this over your thick font. Make sure that you unclick hide on your layer palette

45. Stroke 0, size 72

46. Add drop shadow with these settings twice

47. Merge, Merge Visible

48. Resize your tag to something suitable to you, we are all different, some of us like bug tags LOL I resized mine by 65 %

49. Image, Add Borders

50. Select Magic wand and click inside your Border so you see little marching ants all around your border

51. Effects, Texture Effects, Blinds, use same settings as before

52. Selections, select none

53. Your tag is now finished, don’t forget to add your watermark and save as Jpeg or Gif.