This tutorial was written on August 15,2020

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using the tube 2-2 by Rene Kunert

Plugins:

EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow

 Xero: Soft Mood

 DCSpecial

 Mura's Meister Copies

Mask:

MontiblindsMask1

by Monti's Pixel Playground

Open a 700x700 new image.

Open up your tube of choice.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer

onto your new image. Resize 88% if needed.

Apply the Plugin Effect Mura's Meister Copies.

Wallpaper Rotate with default settings.

Select the Ellipse Preset shape tool.

Set the Width to 5.00.

On your Materials Palette, hide the 

Background Fill color option.

For the Foreground Stroke, select a dark color

from your tube. 

Now, draw out a circle to desired size.

Objects - Align -Center In Canvas.

Then Right click on the layer in your Layer Palette.

Convert to Raster Layer.

Select your magic wand tool.

Click inside the circle shape.

Selections -Modify -Expand by 3.

Selections Invert.

Select the tube layer on the layer palette.

Press delete. Select none.

Rename the two layers.

For the circle layer: Circle Frame

Tube layer: Tube WP1

This will help keep things straight as we do the tutorial.

Duplicate the Tube WP1 layer & rename the copy as

Tube WP2.

Apply the plugin effectl -Ice to the WP2 layer.

Add a new raster layer above the WP2 layer.

Fill with a different color of your tube.

Repeat these steps:

Select your magic wand tool.

Click inside the circle shape.

Selections -Modify -Expand by 3.

Selections Invert.

Select the new raster layer on the layer palette.

Press delete. Select none.

Rename this layer Color Fill.

Change the blend mode to Screen &

lower the opacity to 61 depending on the color you used.

Merge the layer down with the WP2 layer.

Apply the plugin Xero: Soft Mood with the settings:

Haziness 182

Glow Red Green blue -70

Brightness 32

Contrast -20

Click OK.

Move the WP1 layer above the WP2 layer in your 

layer palette. Change the blend mode on WP1 to Soft Light.

On WP1,  go to Effects - Art Media Effects - Brush Strokes.

On the Pull down menu, select Speckles & use default settings.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer above the Circle Frame layer.

Resize 88% & 93% or as needed.

Drop shadow each of the layers with a default one of choice.

Select your Ellipse tool again. Change the color for Foreground to

a color that isnt on your tag. Change the width to 2.00.

Draw out aa circle above the Circle Frame layer. We're going to 

add wording to this layer so do not convert to raster.

We need this layer as a vector.

Select your Font tool. Choose a font of choice that fits your tag.

Unhide the Background color layer also in your Materials Palette.

Hover your mouse above the Vector Circle. When you have A) icon,

type out your wording along the circle. Use words that fit your tag/tube.

Once you have the wording you want & the size you want, go to your layers palette.

Click the + symbol on this layer. This will open up the hidden layers of the circle.

Now, you want to click on the eye of the New Ellipse to hide it.

Then click on the - of the Vector layer to hide the layers. You will have wording

but no vector circle showing.

Convert to raster.

Apply the plugin EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow to the wording.

Setting Fat Glow width 3.00.

Apply earlier drop shadow to the layer as well.

Merge your tag layers together.

Fill the bottom layer of your image with a color of choice.

Go to Layers - Load/Save Mask - MontiblindsMask1.

Check Invert Mask. Apply.

Merge Mask Group layers.

Crop tag to desired size.

Add artist copyright information & name for tag.

Save as png. Thanks for trying my tutorial.