This tutorial was written by me on September 24, 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 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 CS5 but this tutorial should work with any version.

You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Enchantress" created by Hania's Design.  You can purchase the kit at Elegance Fly here. 

PTU Tube:  I am using Attila's fantastic tube "Enchantress".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. I am using the extended license tube for this tutorial.  

You can purchase this awesome tube at Elegance Fly here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome Halloween 4 animation  from her new Halloween Pack 1.  You can purchase her fantastic animation at her store here.  

Mask:  Mask 365 by Mizteeque. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here. I am using the png versions for this tutorial.  

Font of choice for your name.

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

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

Let's get started.

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

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 the 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 :) with the exception of resizing.  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).

Let's get started.

Open a new 750x800 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.

Select mask 365 and drag it into the tag.  Your free transformation box will appear.  Click the link icon between the W and H and type 38%.  Click ok.

Drag paper 7 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 29%.  Click the check mark.

Standing on the paper layer in the layers pallet, right click and select create a clipping mask.

Drag element 20 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 30%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the top right of the mask.  Duplicate and move to the left of the mask by the bird.

Drag element 128 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the top of the mask.

Select the paper layer and drag paper 2 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move into a spot you like best in the frame.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, click inside the frame.  Select, modify, expand by 5.

Select the paper layer and go to Layers, Layer Mask, Reveal selection.

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 111 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 30%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the right of the frame.

Drag element 42 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the center of the frame.

Drag element 57 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the top right of the frame.

Drag element 55 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the scarecrow.

Drag element 59 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 10%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the scarecrow.

Drag element 67 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the mushrooms.

Drag element 120 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the cauldron.

Drag element 113 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 30%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 112 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 30%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the of the mask.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 119 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 10%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the center of the cauldron.

Drag element 106 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the vine.

Drag element 25 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the basket.

Drag element 1 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom right of the pumpkin.

Select the layers you would like to use on your tube by clicking on the eyeball to make the layers visible.  Click on the eyeball of a visible layer to hide it.  Holding down the Ctrl key, Select each visible layer.  Once all layers are selected hit Ctrl+G on your keyboard to group the layer.  Select your move tool and select group 1.  Drag this into your tag.  You can close the original and do not save the changes.  Standing on group 1 in the layer pallet, right click and convert to smart object.  Your group layers are now one single layer.  Hit Ctrl+T on the keyboard and click on the link between the H & W.  Resize 25% and move to the bottom right of the mask.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 65 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 8%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom right of the tube.

Drag element 117 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 30%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom of the tube.  This is going to be larger than the tag so we need to fix this.  Holding down the ctrl key, click on the thumb nail of the grass. Still standing on the fog layer, go to layer, layer mask, reveal selection.  Now we get to paint the mask.  Left click the mask icon in the layer pallet.  Select a soft brush set to 100.  We need white in the foreground (white reveals what is hidden under the mask).  Make sure the mask icon is selected.  Paint on the mask the parts you want to reveal.  If you make a mistake, change the foreground color to black and paint on the error.

Drag element 83 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the fog.

Drag element 95 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the top right of the rock.

Drag element 47 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark. Edit, transform, flip horizontal.  Move to the bottom right of the rock.

Drag element 62 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the rock.

Drag element 63 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the leaf.

Drag element 51 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom right of the cat.

Drag element 104 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 15%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom left of the rock.

Drag element 37 into your tag.  Click the link icon between the W and H and resize 20%.  Click the check mark.  Move to the bottom right of the pumpkin.

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.  See my settings below. 

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 click on the layer above and hold down the shift key, click on the layer just under the paper layer.  Right click and paste layer style.   

Select the frame layer, holding down the shift key, select the tube layer.  Right click and paste layer styles.  

Standing on the tube layer, right click and duplicate.  

Standing on the duplicate tube layer, right click and clear layer style.  Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur set to 3 and click ok.  Change the blend mode to soft light.  Holding down the shift key, Select the tube layer.  You now should have the two tube layers highlighted in blue.  Right click and Merge layers.

Select the layer above the tube layer, holding 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 :)

Open Rebel Dezigns psd file in PS.  You will notice that there is 10 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 the layers.  Starting from layer 10, hold down your control key and select each odd layer so the next one will be 9 then 8 etc.  Once all the layers are selected (the layers will be highlighted in blue) we need to group them.  All 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 cat layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 10%.  Move to a spot you like best.  I moved it to the bottom right of the rock.  I expanded the folder.  Copied the layer style from one of the layers.  Select frame 1, holding down the shift key, select Frame 10.  Right click and paste layer styles.  Drop shadow has now been added to the animation.

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 Animation (Frames) on the bottom, go to Windows, Animation.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon at the right end of the animation screen then select make frames from layers.

When the pop up shows 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 11 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 10 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 10.  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, save for web device.

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.