This tutorial was written by me on August 23, 2020. The results are of my own imagination.  Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.  

Please DO NOT claim this tutorial as your own.

This was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

Please keep in mind that I write the tutorial as I am creating it.

Sometimes I may not explain properly where to place things so please see my example if you are ever in doubt :)

Supplies needed

I am using PSP 2018 but this tutorial should work with any version.

Animation shop (optional)

PTU Tube:  I am using a beautiful tube called "Steampunk 40" created by Verymany.  Please do not use this tube without a proper license.  

You can purchase this tube at Verymany's store here. 

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous matching kit called "Steampunk 40" created by Tiny Turtle Designs.  You can purchase the kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs animation 112 from package 63.  You can purchase her fun animation here.  I am using the mng file

Mask:  83 by Vivienne's Paintbox. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here. I am using the jpg versions for this tutorial.  

My gold green Gradient (psp only).  Do not share and this is for personal use only.  You can download it here.  Install in your gradients folder.

Font of choice for your name.

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

Please read all the Artist's/Designer's TOU.

Vivienne's Paintbox has awesome drop shadow settings that I use a lot.  You can find the settings here and check out her awesome tutorials :)

Anytime you resize an element or tube you should sharpen it.  Go to adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Let's get started.

Remember to save your tag often in case psp crashes.  I always save my tags as a pspimage.  It keeps all the layers and if you make tags for others you will always have the template.

Open a new 750x800 transparent image.  We will resize later.

Add a new layer and flood fill with white.

Open paper of choice.  I am using paper 2, copy and close the original.  Paste as a new layer.  Layers, new mask layer, from image and find Vivienne's mask in the drop down.  Click ok and merge group. You can close the mask as we no longer need it.  

Open element 45, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste. Move to the top right of the mask. See mine for placement.

Open element 144, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60% and sharpen.  Move to the top left of the mask. See mine for placement.  Using the magic wand, click inside the frame.  Selections, modify, expand by 3.  Add a new raster layer and drag this under the frame.  Open paper of choice.  I am using paper 1, copy and close the original.  Select the new raster layer and paste into selections.  Do not deselect. Open your tube and mirror the close up.  Copy the close up and paste as a new layer on the tag above the paper layer below the frame.  Resize 50%, using your move tool, move her into a spot you like best inside the frame.  Once happy with placement, selections, invert and hit delete on the keyboard.  Select none.  Change the blend mode to soft light and drop shadow the frame.

Open element 38, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the frame. 

Open element 10, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom center of the frame. 

Open element 46, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the frame. 

Open element 107, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the wheel. 

Open element 1, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the frame. 

Open element 2, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Drop shadow and move slightly to the left.

Open element 62, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the right close to the broken frame. 

Open element 133, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the jeweled broach. See mine for placement.

Open element 121, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 70%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move up so it is by the eye of the close up tube and over the horse's shoulder.

Copy your tube.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move up and slightly to the left.  Select the mask layer, Select all, float, defloat and invert.  Select the tube layer, using the eraser tool, erase the bottom of the tube.  Select none.

Open element 151, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move down to the right so it is over the tube and horse.  See mine for placement.

Open element 130, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left so it is over the tube's skirt.  See mine for placement.

Open element 156, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the tube so it covers the branch bottom.  See mine for placement.

Open element 88, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Move up and to the right slightly.  See mine for placement.  Select all, float, defloat and add a new raster layer.  Flood fill with my gold/green gradient and select none.  Change the blend mode to hard light and merge down.  Apply the following inner bevel and drop shadow.  See screen shot below for inner bevel settings.

Open element 40, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the tube. See mine for placement.

Open element 95, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the packages. See mine for placement.

Open element 118, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the clock. See mine for placement.

Open element 21, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 15%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the clock. 

Open element 7, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the clock. See mine for placement.

Open element 53, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right so it covers the bottom of the bottles. See mine for placement.

Open element 134, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 35%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the jewelry box.

Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.

Crop away any extra space.  Resize 650 on the longest side, all layers checked.

Add your copyright and name.

If you do not want to animate.  Hide the white background layer Save your tag and export as png.

Animating the tag.  Make sure your tag is saved as a psp image file as you do not want to loose it if psp crashes.

Might want to grab a coffee :)

Open Kiya's animation mng file in animation shop.  In the bottom right corner it will show you there is 16 frames.  We will need this many frames for our tag.

Go to Animation, resize animation and when the pop up box show up, select percentage of Original and change the number to 50.  Click ok.

Back to psp.

We need to prepare our tag to take into animation shop.

Starting from the bottom, hold down your ctrl key and click all the bottom three layers of the tag.  Layer, new layer group.

OK we are now ready to start to animate.  

Select group 1 and go to edit, copy.

Back to animation shop.

Edit, paste as new animation or Ctrl + V.

There are 16 frames in Kiya's animation so we will need 16 frames for our tag.

Holding down the Shift + Ctrl tap the L on your keyboard 15 times.  We now have 16 frames.  It will show you how many frames you have in the bottom right corner of AS.

Go to edit, select all.

Back to Simone's animation, select all, edit, copy.

Back to the base tag.  

Go to edit, paste into selected frames.  

The animation will be handing off your mouse pointer.  Move to the top left of the mask.

View your animation by going to view, animation.  If you are happy with placement continue to the next step.  If you do not like the animation placement, hit ctrl + Z on your keyboard to undo the last step then ctrl + E to paste into selected frames.

You can close Kiya's animation as we no long need it.  Do not save changes.

Back to psp.

Select the group 1 layer and click on the eyeball to hide the group.  Now we will only have the top of the tag visible.  Go to Edit, copy special, copy merged.

Back to animation shop.

Edit, paste as new animation or Ctrl + V.

Holding down the Shift + Ctrl tap the L on your keyboard 15 times.  We now have 16 frames.  It will show you how many frames you have in the bottom right corner of AS.

Go to edit, select all, edit, copy.

Back to the base tag.  

Go to edit, paste into selected frames.

I lined the face mask with the bottom of the mask.

View your animation by going to view, animation.  If you are happy with placement continue to the next step.  If you do not like the animation placement, hit ctrl + Z on your keyboard to undo the last step then ctrl + E to paste into selected frames.

Go to file Save as, gif and click next and next until you hit finished.  I use the default settings.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  I would love to see your results.