This tutorial was written on July 11th, 2021

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using the art of Queen Uriel

using her tube Pride Month 2021.

Plugins:

Mura's Meister's Copies

Xero Porcelain

VM Natural Splash! 

EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow

Preset Shape:

dbmmisc04

Open a 700x300 new image.

Open up your tube of choice.

Copy & Paste your tube as a new 

layer onto your blank image.

Duplicate the tube layer once.

Rename the duplicate to Top Tube.

Hide the tube copy layer for now.

Make sure the original tube layer

is selected in your layer palette.

Rename the layer as OG Tube.

Apply the plugin Mura's Meister Copies:

Wallpaper rotate with default settings.

Also apply the plugin Xero Porcelain with default settings.

Duplicate the OG Tube layer once.

Rename the layer OG2.

Apply the plugin VM Natural Splash! Default.

Go to Effects - Edge -Enhance once.

Lower the opacity on this layer to 44%.

Select your Rectangle Preset Shape tool.

Width doesn't matter right now.

On your Materials Palette, Hide the 

Foreground/Stroke color for now.

Choose black or white for the Background

color. It doesn't really matter.

For this part, I took a preset shape called

dbmmisc04 & modified it to work for my purpose.

I drew out the shape on a new image 700x700.

Color black or white it doesn't matter.

Draw it out to desired size. Using your selection tool,

draw around the top rectangle. Once selected, right click

& promote to new layer. Select none.

Move the promoted layer to just above the below shape.

Merge together.

Now, apply the plugin Mura's Meister Copies: Tiling w/

default settings. If needed, trim off any excess rectangle shapes.

You only want 6 rectangles per column. I have 3 columns of 

6 rectangles each.

Copy & paste as a new layer onto your tag image.

Rename the layer as Pride colors.

Now, we're going to fill each row going across,

with a color of the Pride Rainbow.

The order of the colors starting at the top are:

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green 

Blue 

Purple.

Make sure you fill each of the rectangles going across 

per row (not column). Also, if you aren't doing a Pride 

themed tag, feel free to change the colors to fit your tag.

Change the blend mode on the colors layer to Soft Light.

Select your Top Tube layer in your palette. Now, select your Preset

Shape Tool again. You want to use an angled heart shape &

set width to 3.00 Set your color to white in your Materials Palette.

Hide your Background color for the moment & unhide your Foreground one.

Draw out a white heart. I did 334x260 for mine. Convert 

the shape to raster layer. Position the heart on the 

bottom right corner of your tag. Rename the heart shape as Heart1.

Now, move your Top Tube layer so its inside of the heart shape.

Select your magic wand tool. Make sure you are on the Heart1 layer.

Click inside your heart to select it.

Selections - Modify - Expand by 2. Selections invert.

In your layer palette, select your Top Tube layer & press delete

on your keyboard. Select none. Add a drop shadow to the Heart1 layer.

Add a new raster layer. Fill this layer with white.

Select the layer using your Magic Wand. Selections Modify-Contract by 4.

Press delete. Select none.

Apply plugin EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow - using Black Halo &

set the Glow Width to 3.00.

Select your Text tool. Set your Background color to white.

Choose a font of choice & size preference.  Type out words of choice.

I used Love Is Love. Convert text to raster. I positioned the wording on

top left corner of my tag. This way its diagonal from the heart shape.

Merge layers visible. Add artist copyright info & a name to your tag.

Save as PNG. Thanks bunches for trying my tutorial.