This tutorial was written by me on April 4, 2021. 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 PS.

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 Adobe Photoshop 2021 but this tutorial should work with any version.

You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.

PTU Tube:  I am using AbbyDawn's beautiful tube "Beautiful Creatures".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

I am using the extended license tube for this tutorial

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous matching kit called "Beautiful Creatures (and where to find them)" created by Atelier de Minja.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 2036 from pack 677.  You can purchase her awesome animations here.

Mask: 357 by Mizteeque's Design.  You can download it from her blog here.  Thank you for your awesome masks.  I'm using the png version for this tutorial.

Please see Rene's Animation How-to for PS here.  

Font of choice for your name. 

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

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

To open an image, I click on the element or paper in the file folder and drag it into PS.

To transfer an element or paper in PS to my tag, I left click and drag it into my working canvas.  

The other way is to left click and drag the element from the folder right onto your tag. 

Either way you will get the same results but the resizing will be different :).  I will be using the both method for this tutorial.

For resizing and rotating I use the Ctrl+T command.

To mirror or Flip go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal (mirror) or Flip vertical (Flip).

Remember to save often.

Let's get started.

Open a new 800x800 transparent image.  We will resize later.

Go to layers, New fill layer, solid color.  When the pop up window appears type in FFFFFF and click ok.

Drag Mizteeques mask into your tag.  Resize about 40% and click the check mark.  

Drag paper 1 into the tag.  Click the check mark.  Standing on the paper layer, right click and select create a clipping mask.

Drag element 23 into your tag.  Resize 13% and move to the top left of the mask.  Duplicate x2 and move to the upper right of the mask and the middle right of the mask.

Drag Spray 5 into your tag.  Resize 18% and move to the middle right of the mask. 

Drag Spray 1 into your tag.  Resize 29% and move to the middle right of the mask. 

Drag element 53 into your tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom of spray 1. 

Drag element 62 into your tag.  Resize 10% and move over element 53.

Drag element 78 into your tag.  Resize 5% and move to the bottom right of the fairy house.

Drag element 72 into your tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom right of the mushrooms.

Drag element 7 into your tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom right of the waterfall.

Drag element 82 into your tag.  Resize 8%, mirror and move to the bottom right of the tag.  

Drag element 32 into your tag.  Resize 8% and move to the top of the tree.  

Drag element 13 into your tag.  Resize 25% and move to the top left of the mask.  

Drag element 27 into your tag.  Resize 6% and move to the top right of the waterfall. 

Drag Wordart2 into your tag.  Resize 14% and move to the top right of the moon. 

Drag element 12 into your tag.  Resize 23% and move to the bottom of the waterfall.  

Drag element 69 into your tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom right of element 12.  Duplicate and move to the far left side of element 12.

Drag element 66 into your tag.  Resize6% and move to the bottom left of element 12.

Drag cluster 2 into your tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom left of element 12. (See my example for placement)

Drag element 25 into your tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom of element 69 on the left side.  

Open the tube in PS.  Make the layers you like to use visible by clicking on the eye next to the layer.  Once you have chosen the layers, hold down the Ctrl Key and click on each 

of the layers you would like to use.  One all the layers are selected, hit Ctrl + G to group the layers.  Select group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Close the original tube and 

don't save the changes.  Standing on Group 1 in the layer pallet. Right click and convert to smart object.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom of the mask.

Drag element 51 into your tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

Duplicate element 25 and drag the layer above the grass layer.  Move to the bottom center of the tube.

Drag element 6 into your tag.  Resize 28% and move to the bottom right of the bush.

Drag element 17 into your tag.  Resize 3% and move to the bottom left of the crystal ball.

Drag element 12 into your tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom of the grass on the right.

Drag element 41 into your tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom right of element 12.

Drag Cluster 1 into your tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom of the dragon.

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

Crop away any extra space.  

Image, Image Size and resize 650 on the longest side.  

Oh almost forgot we need to drop shadow all of our elements.  I actually do the drop shadow at the end :)

Select the element on the bottom of your tag in the layer pallet and double click it.  I selected element 53.

A layer style window will pop up.  Click on Drop shadow. and use the following settings.

Now right click on the layer you just applied the drop shadow.  Click copy layer style.

Now click on the layer above and hold down the shift key, select the top layer.  Right click and paste layer styles.  

Drop shadow complete :)

Add your copyright and name.

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

Might want to grab a coffee :)

Select the tube layer, right click and duplicate.

Standing on the duplicate layer, right click and clear layer style.  Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and type in 3.  Click ok.  Change the blend mode to soft light.

Open Rebel Dezigns psd file in PS.  You will notice that there is 25 layers in this animation and it does not have the group layer.  

We need to group all odd the layers.  Starting from layer 25, hold down your control key and select each odd layer so the next one will be 23 then 21 etc.  Once all the odd layers are selected (the layers will be highlighted in blue) we need to group them.  All odd layers selected? 

Go to Layers, Group layers or Ctrl + G on the Keyboard.  You will see group 1 folder at the top.  Make sure Group 1 is selected.

Select the layer you would like the animation to be placed.  I selected the the tree layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 45%.  Move to the top of the Wordart.  

Close the original animation and don't save changes.

Click on the little white arrow beside Group 1 to expand it.  Click on the eyeball of each layer to hide it but leave frame layer 1 visible.  Click on the arrow beside group one to hide it as we do not want to accidentally make any changes.

Next make sure your Timeline viewer is open on the bottom of PS.  I you do not see a row that has Timeline on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.

In the center of the Timeline viewer you will see a drop down box.  On the drop down select Create Frame Animations.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon (four white lines) at the right end of the animation screen then select make frames from layers.

You are going to see a big mess in the animation window but we are going to fix this.

Click on the first frame and click on the trash can in the animation window.  Repeat this until you reach the first frame of the animation.  

Now you should be at the first frame of the animation.  Click on frame 14 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 13 frames in the animation window.  This is the amount of frames for our animation.

This next step is very important.  Any changes you do from here you must be on frame 1 in the Timeline viewer. It will be highlighted in blue.

Go to the bottom of your tag in the layers pallet.  Make sure you have animation frame 1 selected.

Click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible.  For the white base layer you may have to click on the eyeball a couple of times to make it visible in all the animation frames.  It's a Photoshop thing.  Do not touch the group layer.

Next, I want to slow down the animation.  With the first frame selected, hold down the shift key and click on frame 13.  This will select all the frames.

Next, click on the little black arrow beside the 0 sec as we want to change the speed.  A pop up window will appear.  

I selected 0.2 Sec.  Now click on the play button to view the animation.  Click on it again to stop it.

Click frame 1 again so we don't accidentally make any changes.

Now to save our tag as a gif.

Go to File>Export>Save for Web(Legacy).

A new pop up window will appear.  Change the settings to my screen shot below.  Click on the image to enlarge it if needed.  Click save.  My screen shot will look different but the settings are the same.

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