This tutorial was written by me on February 15, 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 Enys Guerrero's awesome tube "40-3".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Carousel" created by Gothic Inspirations.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

FTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns's awesome free animation 9. Third row first animation.  You can download from her site here.

Mask included in the kit.

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

Font of choice for your name. I am using Show Card Goth.  

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 MaskDrop into the tag.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corner until the paper fills the canvas.  Click the checkmark.  

Drag Paper 4 into the tag.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corner until the paper fills the canvas.  Click the checkmark. 

Holding down the Ctrl key, click the mask icon.  You should see marching ants.  Standing on the paper layer go to Layers>Layer Mask>Reveal selection.

You can now delete MaskDrop layer as we no longer need it.

Drag Smudged into the tag.  Click the check mark, mirror and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag Ticket into the tag.  Resize 55% and move to the bottom right of the mask.

Drag Doodle into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag WA4 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top center of the mask.

Drag frame 7 into the tag.  I resized it to fit the tube I'm using.  My dimensions are W: 85.65% x H: 100.41%.  Click the checkmark and move to the upper left of the mask just under the wordart.

Select the layer under the frame. Drag paper 3 into the tag and resize 71%.  Move into the frame.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, click inside the frame.  Go to Select>Modify>expand by 3.

Select the paper layer.  Go to Layers>Layer Mask>Reveal selection.

Select the frame layer.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 62% and move to the center of the frame so her arms line up with the frame.

Drag Ribbon5 into the tag.  Resize 58% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag Balloons into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag CottonCandy into the tag.  Resize 20% and rotate 12 degrees.  Move to the top right of the frame.

Drag Carousel into the tag.  Resize 57% and move to the bottom of the cotton candy.

Drag RibbonWrap into the tag.  Resize 42% and move to the bottom left of the tube so it covers the edge.

Drag Bling into the tag.  Resize 303% and move to the bottom of the tube.

Drag Heart 1 into the tag.  Resize 41% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

Drag Keys into the tag.  Resize 87% and move to the bottom of the tube so it covers the edge of her hair on the left.

Drag Horn into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the center of the keys.

Drag Carousel into the tag.  Resize 220% and move to the bottom of the ride sign.

Drag Mask into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the right side of the carousel.

Drag Tent into the tag.  Resize 33% and move to the bottom right of the mask.

Drag TopHat into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom of the horn.

Drag Box into the tag.  Resize 45% and move to the bottom right of the tent.

Drag Coins into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom right of the top hat.

Drag Dice into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the bottom left of the coins.

Drag BlackBird into the tag.  Resize 45% and move to the left so it is perched on the key.

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.

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 layer under the paper layer.  Rick click and paste layer styles.  

Select the frame layer, holding down the shift key, select the top layer.  Right click and paste layer styles.  Drop shadow complete :)

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.

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 :)

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.  That is ok as we are going to learn how to do this so it matches the animation layers of the tube.

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? 

Next we need to group these layers.  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 mask layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 70%.  Move to the center of the tag.  Now standing on the group layer hold down the Ctrl key, left click on the mask icon.  You should see marching ants.  Still standing on group 1 layer, go to Layers, Layer mask, reveal selection.

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 animation viewer is open on the bottom of PS.  I you do not see a row that has Timelines on the bottom, go to Windows, Timelines.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon with four 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 animation window. 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 0.1 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.