This tutorial was written by me on February 9, 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 "Winter Rose".  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 "Winter Rose" created by Tiny Turtle Designs.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1981 from pack 659.  You can purchase her awesome animations at CDO here.

Mask:  370 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.  

My Wordart below.  Left click to enlarge then right click and save as.

My word art is for PU only.

Please see Rene's Animation How-to for PS here.  

Font of choice for your name. I am using a PTU font called Dream Quacker.  You can purchase it here.  

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 your tag 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 Mizteeque's mask into your tag.  Holding down the shift key, pull on the top and bottom corners to make it a bit larger and click the check mark.

Drag paper 12 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 element 110 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top left of the mask.

Select the layer under the frame and drag paper 13 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move it into the frame.

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

Select>Modify>expand by 3.

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

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

Drag element 28 into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate and mirror.  Move to the top right of the frame.

Holding down the shift key, select the original element 28 layer.  Both layers should be highlighted in the layer panel.  Right click and Merge Layers.

Duplicate one more time then go to Edit>Transform>Rotate 90 degrees clockwise.  Move to the left side of the frame.

Drag Element 118 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top right of the frame.

Select the frame layer.

Drag my wordart into the tag.  Resize 62% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag Element 72 into the tag.  Resize 63% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Drag Element 137 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the left of the frame.

Drag Element 127 into the tag.  Resize 37% and move to the left of the frame slightly to the right of the branch.

Drag Element 66 into the tag.  Resize 65% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Drag Element 5 into the tag.  Resize 65% and move to the bottom right of the frame.

Drag Element 73 into the tag.  Resize 37% and move to the bottom left of the tree.

Drag Element 121 into the tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom center of the wood.

Drag Element 53 into the tag.  Resize 25% and move to the bottom of the tree.

Drag Element 31 into the tag.  Resize 29% and move to the bottom of the of the wood.

Drag Element 65 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the bottom of the of the mushrooms.

Drag Element 33 into the tag.  Resize 22% and move to the bottom of the of the flower cluster.

Drag Element 76 into the tag.  Resize 28% and move over the mushroom.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the right of the frame.

Drag element 69 into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

Drag element 71 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom the wheel so it looks like it is laying on it.

Drag element 37 into the tag.  Resize 44% and move to the bottom right of the wheel.

Drag element 114 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the right of the flowers.

Drag element 81 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the right of the watch.

Drag element 38 into the tag.  Resize 25% and move to the bottom left of the watch.

Drag element 55 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom right of the flower.

Drag element 43 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the bottom left of the cat.

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

Drag element 18 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom of the teapot.

Drag element 44 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the bottom left of the jar.

Drag element 67 into the tag.  Resize 19% and move to the bottom right of the jar.

Drag element 64 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom of the candle.

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.  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. Lower the opacity to 80%.

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 30%.  Move 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.

Next is animating.

In the timeline, click on the box in the center and select Create Frame Animation.

You will see the first frame in the timeline.

Click on the little four line 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 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 0.1 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.