This tutorial was written by me on March 27, 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 Verymany's beautiful tube "Easter Bunny".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Eggilicious Party" created by Atelier de Minja.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome animation 227 from pack 75.  You can purchase her awesome animations here.

Mask: Mask 3 by Minja.  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 Minja's mask into the tag.  Click the check mark.

Drag paper 6 into your tag.  Click the check mark.  Right click on the paper layer and create a clipping mask.

Drag frame 6 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the lower left of the mask.

Select the mask layer and drag paper 1 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move under the frame into a spot you like best.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, hold down the shift key and select each opening of the frame.  

Go to Select>Modify>expand by 3.

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

Select the mask layer as we are going to work under the frame and paper layer.

Drag element 23 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag element 37 into the tag.  Resize 17% and move to the top right of the mask.

Drag element 73 into the tag.  Resize 22% and move to the top right of the frame.

Drag element 45 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the bottom left of the large tree.  Duplicate and move to the lower right of the second tree.

Drag element 26 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the top left of the left tree.

Drag element 77 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the top of the lower frame on the left.

Drag element 63 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom left of the lower frame.

Drag element 25 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the top right of the tree on the right.

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 75 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Drag element 85 into the tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom of the right frame.

Drag cluster 2 into the tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom of the carrot house.

Drag cluster 2 into the tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom of the carrot house.

Drag cluster 1 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 74 into the tag.  Resize 5%, mirror and move to the bottom right of cluster 2.

Drag element WordArt 1 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the bottom left of the mask.

Drag element 16 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom of the tube.

Drag element 27 into the tag.  Resize 6% and move in front of the tube's hands.

Drag element 41 into the tag.  Resize 5% and move to the right of the flower cluster.

Drag element 20 into the tag.  Resize 5% and move to the bottom of the exploding egg.

Drag element 8 into the tag.  Resize 4% and move to the bottom left of the wagon.

Drag element 82 into the tag.  Resize 7% and move to the left of the tube by the basket handle.

Drag element 65 into the tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom of element 82.

Drag element 52 into the tag.  Resize 3% and move to the bottom of the mushroom.

Drag element 34 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom left of the tube.

Drag Element 117 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

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.  Right 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 Kiya Designs 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 the layers.  Starting from frame layer 25, hold down your shift key and select frame layer 1.  This will select all the layers at once.

Next 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 wordart layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 40%.  Move to a spot you like best.  I moved it between the words of the wordart.

Close the original animation and don't save changes.

Standing on Group 1 layer, right click and paste layer style.  (The drop shadow should still be in the memory)

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.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon (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 Timeline viewer 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 26 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 25 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 in the Timeline.

Click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible.  For the white base layer you may have to click on it 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 in the animation window, hold down the shift key and click on frame 25.  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 for animating.

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