This tutorial was written by me on February 6, 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 Adobe Photoshop 2021 but this tutorial should work with any version.

You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.

PTU Animated tube: I am using Kiya Designs gorgeous tube "Victoria".  You can purchase this beauty at Kiya Designs store here.

FTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Mono" created by AoRK.  You can download this beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome animation 68 from pack 22. 

You can purchase her awesome animations at her store here.

Mask:  Miz_Mask366 by Mizteeques. 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 :).  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 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.

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 Mizteeque's mask into PS then into the tag.  Hit Ctrl + T then holding down the shift key, pull the corners of the mask until you find a size you like.  Click the checkmark.  

Drag paper 3 into the mask.  Click the check mark.

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

Drag element 85 into the tag.  Resize 45% and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag element 90 into the tag.  Resize 26% and move to the top left over element 85.

Drag element 60 into the tag.  Resize 19% and move to the top left over element 90.

Drag element 32 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom left of the house.

Drag element 65 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom left of the the rose.

Drag element 20 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom of the black rose.

Drag element 48 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom of the ribbon.

Drag Frame 7 into the tag.  Resize 34% and move to the center of the mask.

Select the layer under the frame and drag paper 6 into the tag.  Resize 26% and move under 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 frame layer.

Drag element 87 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 15 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the top of the leaves.

Drag element 54 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move over the heart.

Drag element 79 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the center of the leaves.

Drag element 66 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom of the rose cluster.

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

Drag element 31 into the tag. Resize 22% and move to the bottom left of the tube.

Drag element 27 into the tag. Resize 15% and move to the center of the feather.

Drag element 6 into the tag. Resize 27% and move to the bottom left of of the tube.

Drag element 5 into the tag. Resize 13% and move on top of the book.

Drag element 46 into the tag. Resize 17% and move to the bottom left of element 27.

Drag element 42 into the tag. Resize 16% and move to the bottom right of the cat.

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.

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, click on the layer below the paper layer of the frame.  Right click and paste layer style.    

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

Add your copyright and name.

Select the tube layer.  Right click and duplicate.  On the duplicate, right click and clear layer style.  Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur set to 3 and click ok.  Lower the opacity to 80%.

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 24 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 22, hold down your shift key and select the bottom layer.  This will select all the layers (the layers will be highlighted in blue) we need to group them.  

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 50%.  Move to a spot you like best.  I moved it to the center of the frame.

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 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.

In the timeline window, click on create frame animation.  If you don't see it in the center of the Timeline viewer, click on the little drop down.

Next is animating.

Click on the little four lined icon 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 25 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 24 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 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 24.  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.