This tutorial was written on July 19 ,2023

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using the art of Dirk Richter

with his tube 21-2.

Plugins: 

Mura's Meister Copies

VM Natural

VM Experimental

DC Layer

Open a 700x300 new image.

Add a new raster layer & fill this layer with white or color of choice.

Open your tube of choice. The tube I 

chose has a color layer & a black & white color.

For the first layer, copy & paste your tube as 

a new layer. I chose the black & white (BW) layer for mine.

Rename this layer as BW. 

Apply the plugin Mura's Meister Copies.

I used the Wallpaper rotate effect with default settings.

Apply VM Natural - Weave Distortion with default settings.

Take another layer of your tube. For me, I chose the color 

layer for this one. Paste as a new layer above the white fill color.

Rename the layer color brush. Apply the Mura's Meister Copies

Wallpaper rotate. Under your effects - Art Media - Brush strokes.

I did the color black with default settings.

Now, apply the Plugin VM Experimental - TeeWee with default settings.

Return to the BW layer making sure its selected in your layer palette.

Select your Magic Wand tool with settings Replace - Color 

Tolerance 20. Contiguous checked and Feather 2.00.

While holding Shift Button down, select the solid color areas of 

the layer. You don't want to select the weave tube areas.

Once you have them all selected ( 6 on my tag ), press delete on your keyboard

& select none.

Duplicate the BW layer once. Make sure the Copy BW layer is selected in 

your layer palette. Now, Apply the plugin DC Layer - Dark Glass with default settings. On the original BW layer, change the blend mode to either Overlay 

or Hard Light - depending on which you like better on your tag.

Have your top layer selected in the layer palette. Copy & paste your tube

twice. I mirrored one so that the two tubes face each other. Position each one

along one side of your tag - 1 on left & 1 on right.

For my color layer one, I changed the blend mode to Hard Light.

Add drop shadows to the layers of your tag.

Select your font tool. Choose a color from your tag for your font. For mine, I chose the color yellow. Type out a single word that fits your tag. My word was Glimpse. 

I centered the word in the middle of the tag. Convert the word to raster once you have it desired size. I did add a white outline to the word. I have to do a bit of a workaround for it though due to my Eyecandy4000 not working.  Make sure you 

add a drop shadow to the layer.

Add a new raster layer to the tag. Make sure its the top layer in your 

layer palette. Fill with white or color of choice that compliments your tag.

Select your magic wand & click on the layer. 

Selections - Modify - Contract by 4. Select none. Add drop shadow of choice.

Merge layers & add artist copyright & name to the tag. Save as a png.

Thanks for trying my tutorial!