Green Fairy

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of  Bits N Bobs, which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using  a PTU kit by Bits N Bobs called Back to Nature 

Font of choice, I am using Digs My Hart

Plugins: AAA Frames Foto Frame

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Banner Tag:

Open a new canvas 600 x 250 pixels with a white background.

Open paper 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize 70%, arrange in canvas

Add your tube, arrange to the left

add the following

BTN23, resize 55%

BTN47 resize 55%

BTN61 resize 60%

BTN10 resize 60%

BTN25 resize 60%

BTN46 resize 60%

BTN, resize 25%, then another 90

You might want to go to adjust, sharpness, sharpen because we resized it so much

BTN48 resize 40%

We will make the avatar first, then come back and finish the tag

Avatar:

Open a new canvas 200 x 200 pixels with a white background

You might want different dimensions based on what your forum allows for avatars.

add the following items from your tag into your avatar:

background paper

tube

hummingbird

Now we'll hop back to the tag:

Merge visible, add your frame using AAA Frames Foto Frames using the following settings:

(click image for larger view)

add your copyrights and credits as needed

add your text

save

Now back to the avatar:

Merge visible

add the same filter for the frame, but change the width to 5

add your copyrights and credits as needed

add your text

save