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 Verymany's beautiful tube "Steampunk 52".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Steamy Valentine" created by Doodle by Design.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1667 from pack 554.  You can purchase her awesome animations at CDO here.

Mask:  I am using Mask 70 created by Vivienne's Paintbox.  I am using the png version for this tutorial.  Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here.

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 Vivienne's mask 70 into your tag. Resize 39% and click the checkmark.

Drag paper 8 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 frame 3 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the top center of the mask.

Select the layer under the frame.

Drag paper 18 into the tag and resize 37%.  Move to the center of the frame.

Select the frame layer.

Using the magic wand, click in the center of the frame.  Go to Select>Modify>Expand by 3.

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

Select the layer under the paper layer as we will be working under the frame and paper layer.

Drag element 84 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top right of the mask.

Drag element 63 into the tag.  Resize 26% and move to the left side of the mask by the cog.

Drag element 158 into the tag.  Resize 59% and move to the top right of the heart.

Drag element 150 into the tag.  Resize 48%, mirror and move to the bottom left of the scattered hearts.

Drag element 4 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom right of the cog cluster.  Duplicate and move to the bottom left of the mask.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 155 into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the bottom right of element 4.

Drag element 11 into the tag.  Resize 29% and move to the left center of copy element 4.

Drag element 13 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 106 into the tag.  Resize 46% and move to the bottom of element 13.

Drag element 94 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top left of copy element 4.

Drag element 149 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top right over the cog cluster.

Drag element 10 into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the bottom right of the leaves.

Drag element 76 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the to the right over element 10.

Drag element 143 into the tag.  Resize 55% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate and go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal.  Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical.  Move to the bottom right of the frame.

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 164 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the bottom center of the frame.

Drag element 70 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the center right of the frame.

Drag element 81 into the tag.  Resize 36% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 40 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom left of the clock.

Drag element 64 into the tag.  Resize 21% and move to the top right of the mechanical heart.

Drag element 95 into the tag.  Resize 19% and move to the bottom left of the bottle.

Drag element 91 into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the bottom of the clock.

Drag element 151 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the left of the cage.

Drag element 100 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the bottom right of the clock.

Drag element 25 into the tag.  Resize 21% and move to the bottom left of the flower cluster.

Drag element 69 into the tag.  Resize 22% and move to the bottom right of the frame.

Drag element 85 into the tag.  Resize 42% and move to the bottom right of the books.

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

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom of the mask so she is about center of the frame.

Drag element 29 into the tag.  Resize 27% and move to the bottom center of the tube.

Drag element 49 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom left of the books.

Drag element 14 into the tag.  Resize 6% and move to the bottom right of the chocolates.

Drag element 28 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the right of element 14.

Drag element 65 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the right of the heart.

Drag element 58 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the right of the feather pen.

Drag element 20 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom right of element 14.

Drag element 51 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the top of chest.

Drag element 68 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom of chest.

Drag element 123 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom left of the chocolates.

Drag element 38 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom right of the flower.

Drag element 61 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom right of the flower.

Drag element 129 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the bottom right of the bottle.

Drag element 99 into the tag.  Resize 5% and move to the bottom left of the pink rose.

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 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 frame 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 frame.  Now standing on the group layer, scroll down the layer pallet until you see the mask layer.  Holding 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 Timeline on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.

Next is animating.

In the timeline window, click on the drop down and select Create Frame Animations.

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 0.2 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.