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.

This tutorial was written by me on March 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 Attila's gorgeous tube "Queen of Hearts".  I am using the extended license tube.  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. 

You can purchase this beauty at Elegance Fly here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Queen of Hearts" created by Hania's Design.  You can purchase her beautiful kit at Elegancy Fly here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1721 from pack 572.  You can purchase her awesome animations at CDO here and here.

Mask:  90 by Vivienne's Paintbox.  I am using the png version for this tutorial.  Thank you for creating these gorgeous 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 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 Vivienne's mask into the tag and click the checkmark.  

Drag paper 5 into the tag.  Click the checkmark.  Right click on the paper layer and create a clipping mask.

Drag element 48 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag element 41 into the tag.  Resize 21% and move to the top right of the mask.

Drag element 12 into the tag.  Resize 61% and move to the middle right of the mask.  Duplicate and move to the middle left of the mask.

Drag element 106 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the top left of the mask.

Select the layer under the frame and drag paper 7 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move under the frame.

Select the frame layer.  Using your magic wand, click inside 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 50 into the tag.  Resize 18% and move to the far right side of the mask.

Drag Wordart 4 into the tag.  Resize 17% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag element 53 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move to the left side of the frame.

Drag element 3 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Select the copy of element 12 and drag this layer above the frame layer.

Drag element 25 into the tag.  Resize 20% and move to the right of the frame.

Drag element 51 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move over the top part of element 25.  Once happy with placement, right click and create a clipping mask.

Drag element 56 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move to the top of the rock.

Drag element 9 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the top right of the mask.

Drag element 57 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the bottom right of the bush on the right.

Drag element 84 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom left of the bush on the left.

Drag element 38 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the top of the books

Drag element 63 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move to the bottom right of the books.

Drag element 45 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom of the books.

Drag element 60 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom left of the books.

Drag element 14 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom left of the books.

Drag element 54 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move to the bottom right of the chest.

Drag element 36 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move on top of the broken headstone.

Unhide the layers you would like to use for your tag by clicking on the eyeball on the left side of the layer.

Now hold down the Ctrl key and clicking on each of the visible layers.  Go to Layers>Group layers or hit Ctrl + G on the keyboard.

Drag the group into the tag.  Right click on the group and Convert to Smart Object.  Resize 20% and move to the lower right of the tag.

Drag element 70 into the tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom center of the chair.

Drag element 87 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the bottom right of the chair's legs.

Drag element 83 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the bottom right of the chair.

Drag element 82 into the tag.  Resize 14% and move to the bottom of the violin.

Drag element 23 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom of the violin.

Drag element 17 into the tag.  Resize 7% and move to the bottom left of the bones jar.

Drag element 74 into the tag.  Resize 5% and move to the right of the bones jar.

Drag element 24 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom left of the violin.

Drag element 58 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom left of the wine.

Drag element 20 into the tag.  Resize 6% and move to the bottom of element 49.

Drag element 49 into the tag.  Resize 17% and move to the bottom center of the pine cones.

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.  

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 40%.  Move to the top center of the frame.  Now standing on the group layer, holding down the Ctrl key, left click on the mask thumbnail on the paper layer.  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 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 center of the Timeline viewer you will see a drop down box.  On the drop down select Create Frame Animations.

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 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.

This tutorial was written by me on May 16, 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 Attila's beautiful tube "Amphitrite".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase this beauty here.

I am using the extended license tube for this tutorial.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous matching kit called "Song to the Siren" created by Atelier de Minja.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1820 from pack 605.  You can purchase her awesome animations here.

Mask: 931 by Vivienne's Paintbox.  You can download it from her blog here.  Thank you for your awesome masks.  I'm using the png version 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).

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 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the top right of the canvas.

Drag paper 5 into the tag.  Click the check mark.  Standing on the paper layer, right click and create a clipping mask.

Drag paper 6 into the tag.  Resize 17.17% and move over the mask.  Right click and create a clipping mask.  Change the blend mode to Linear Burn.

Drag Vivienne's mask into the tag.  Resize 29%, mirror and move to the bottom left of the canvas.

Drag paper 4 into the tag. Resize 25.53% and move over the mask.  Standing on the paper layer, right click and create a clipping mask.

Drag Spray 5 into the tag.  Resize 28.40% and move to the top right of the upper mask. 

Drag element 68 into the tag.  Resize 35.90% and move to the center of the tag.

Drag element 77 into the tag.  Resize 20.91% and move to the lower right of the upper mask.  Duplicate, mirror and move to the top left of the upper mask.

Select element 68 and copy it.  Drag the layer to the top.  Resize 19.29% and move to lower right of the upper mask.

Select Spray 5 layer and copy it.  Move to the bottom right center of the tag.

Drag element 81 into the tag.  Resize 15.31% and move to the top of the upper mask.

Drag element 5 into the tag.  Resize 15.42% and move to the top left of the lower mask.

Drag element 71 into the tag.  Resize 5.57% and move to the lower right of the skull rocks.

Drag element 26 into the tag.  Resize 5.31% and move to the upper right of the skull rocks.

Drag element 13 into the tag.  Resize 10.59% and move to the lower left of the fish.

Drag element 34 into the tag.  Resize 6.87% and move to the bottom of element 13.

Drag element 7 into the tag.  Resize 8.66% and move to the bottom of element 34.

Drag element 17 into the tag.  Resize 7.61% and move to the bottom right of element 7.

Drag element 8 into the tag.  Resize 12.25% and move to the bottom of element 17.

Drag element 39 into the tag.  Resize 3.72% and move to the bottom of the barrels.

Drag element 6 into the tag.  Resize 13.88% and move to the bottom center of the elements.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 3 into the tag.  Resize 8.44% and move to the top left of the ship.

Drag cluster 1 into the tag.  Resize 11.10% and move to the bottom right of the ship.

Drag element 36 into the tag.  Resize 12.79% and move to the center of the ship.

Drag element 52 into the tag.  Resize 9.27% and move to the bottom center of the ship.

Drag element 46 into the tag.  Resize 18.07% and move to the bottom right of the ship.

Drag element 35 into the tag.  Resize 9.66% and move to the bottom right of the rocks.

Drag element 18 into the tag.  Resize 7.28% and move to the over the rocks.

Drag element 22 into the tag.  Resize 8.12% and move to the bottom right of the broken sails.

Drag element 31 into the tag.  Resize 6.93% and move to the bottom right of the rocks.

Drag element 41 into the tag.  Resize 7.43%, mirror and move to the upper left of the ship.

Drag element 82 into the tag.  Resize 7.72% and move to the top left of element 41.

Drag element 80 into the tag.  Resize 8.63% and move to the top left of element 82.

Drag element 30 into the tag.  Resize 12.71% and move to over the rocks.

Drag element 61 into the tag.  Resize 9.06% and move to the left of the rocks.

Drag element 69 into the tag.  Resize 10.08% and move to the bottom of element 30.

Drag element 70 into the tag.  Resize 13.99% and move to the right of element 69.

Drag element 29 into the tag.  Resize 10.44% and move to the left of element 70.

Drag element 77 into the tag.  Resize 20.91%, mirror and move to the far lower left of the elements.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 85 into the tag.  Resize 6.52% and move to the left of the water splash on the right of the tag.

Drag spray 4 into the tag.  Resize 23.90% and move to the bottom of the elements on the left.

Drag element 33 into the tag.  Resize 13.12% and move to the bottom of the broken planks.

Drag element 62 into the tag.  Resize 29.04% and move to the bottom left of the mask.

Drag element 4 into the tag.  Resize 12.25% and move just below the swordfish.

Drag element 41 into the tag.  Resize 7.43% and move to the bottom of the ship wheel.

Drag element 14 into the tag.  Resize 10.30% and move to the bottom right of the ship wheel.

Drag element 75 into the tag.  Resize 14.17% and move to the bottom rocks by the wood planks.

Drag cluster 2 into the tag.  Resize 10.35% and move to the bottom of element 41 on the sand.

Drag element 77 into the tag.  Resize 20.91% and move to the bottom left of the sand.

Drag the main tube into PS.  Unhide the layers you would like to use for your tag by clicking on the eyeball on the left side of the layer.

Now hold down the Ctrl key and clicking on each of the visible layers.  Go to Layers>Group layers or hit Ctrl + G on the keyboard.

Drag the group into the tag.  Right click on the group and Convert to Smart Object.  Resize 17% and move onto the sand so her tail is on the water.

Drag element 15 into the tag.  Resize 4.92% and move to the bottom of cluster 2.

Drag Wordart1 into the tag.  Resize 13.66% and move over the lower part of the tube.

Drag element 16 into the tag.  Resize 6.27% and move over the tail.

Drag element 38 into the tag.  Resize 5.02% and move to the bottom left of the sand castle.

Drag element 57 into the tag.  Resize 5.25% and move to the right of the crown.

Drag element 56 into the tag.  Resize 7.73% and move to the bottom of the comb.

Drag element 78 into the tag.  Resize 5.46% and move to the top left of the shells.

Drag element 50 into the tag.  Resize 7.19% and move to the bottom of the fish.

Drag element 24 into the tag.  Resize 9.60% and move to the bottom between the two rocks.

Drag element 32 into the tag.  Resize 4..08% and move to the lower part of the mermaid.

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  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 :)

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.

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.  

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 element 75 layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 35%.  Move behind the mermaid.  

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 center of the Timeline viewer you will see a drop down box.  On the drop down select Create Frame Animations.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon (four white 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 Timeline viewer. 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.