This tutorial was written by me on February 1, 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 "Forest Fairy 4".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license.  You can purchase this beauty here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Magical Fairy" created by Wicked Princess Scraps.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1773 from pack 590.  You can purchase her awesome animations at CDO here. 

Mask:  344 by Mizteeques. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download them from her blog here. I am using the png versions 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).

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 344 into your tag.  Resize 53% and click the check mark.

Drag paper 7 into your tag.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corner until the paper fills the canvas.  Click the check mark.  

Standing on the paper layer, right click and create a clipping mask.

Drag Water 4 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top of the mask.

Drag Tree 1 into PS then into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the top right of the mask.

Drag Stump 2 into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the right in front of the Tree.

Drag Frame 14 into PS then into the tag.  Resize 65% and move to the left side of the mask about midway.

Select the layer under the frame and drag paper 5 into the tag.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, hold down the shift key and select each opening of the frame. Select>Modify>Expand by 3.

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

Select the frame layer.

Drag Rock 2 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the bottom center of the frame.

Drag Pegasus into the tag.  Resize 55% and move to the center of the frame.

Drag Water 2 into the tag.  Resize 60% and move to the bottom right of the Stump.

Drag Swan into the tag.  Resize 60% and move onto the water.

Drag Bridge into the tag.  Resize 88% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag Animal 2 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the bottom of the bridge.

Drag Stump into the tag.  Resize 53% and move to the bottom of the bridge so the grass lines up.

Drag Cup into the tag.  Resize 25% and move to the bottom right of the racoon.

Drag Bucket into the tag.  Resize 42% and move to the bottom left of the Stump.

Drag House 2 into the tag.  Resize 80% and move to the bottom right of the mask.

Drag Grass2 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the bottom of the mask.

Drag Flower 1 into the tag.  Resize 26% and move in front of the bucket.

Drag Bunny into the tag.  Resize 33% and move in front of the bucket.

Drag Flower 28 into the tag.  Resize 45% and move to the right of house 2.

Drag Flower 9 into the tag.  Resize 33% and move to the bottom right of house 2.

Drag Egg into the tag.  Resize 25% and move in front of the root of House 2.

Drag Flower 29 into the tag.  Resize 63% and move in front of the egg.

Tube Note:  If you want to use the wings you will need to group the two layers before moving them.  Hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard and select tube and wings layer.

Hit Ctrl + G on your keyboard to group them.  Now drag the group layer into the tag.  Right click on the group and convert to Smart Object.  

Resize 30% and move onto the grass 2.

Drag Statue into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom of the tube.

Drag Rock into the tag.  Resize 37% and move to the bottom left of the statue.

Drag Globe 3 into the tag.  Resize 25% and move to the bottom right of the rock.

Drag Animal 1 into the tag.  Resize 28% and move to the bottom center of the rock.

Drag Flower 18 into the tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom right of the hedgehog.

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 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 paper layer under the frame layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 35%.  Move to the center of the frame.  Now standing on the group layer, hold down the Alt key and click on the mask icon that is on the paper layer.

Still holding down the Alt key, drag the mask layer onto the group layer.  You should now have two mask layers.  One on the group and one on the paper layer.

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 at the right end of the animation screen (It looks like four lines) 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 0.2 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.