Brush Strokes

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - preferably one that has multiple sized layers

I Love Arthur Crowe tubes for this reason

You can purchase them from his store HERE

Font of choice

Filter - Brush Strokes which you can download HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 27th January 2016

written in psp9 but any version should work

any resemblance to other works is entirely coincidental

Note: c/p = copy and paste as new layer

d/s = dropshadow 

Open blank canvas 700 x 250

floodfill with gradient made from two colours from your tube

sunburst, repeats & angle 0

c/p close up tube

position to your liking in middle of tag

change blend mode to Luminance

duplicate

On bottom tube layer

effects, brush strokes, crosshatch

stroke length 13

sharpness 6

strength 1

On duplicate tube layer, change blend mode to screen

lower opacity on both tube layers to around 50

c/p medium tube

position to far left

c/p small tube

position to far right

d/s medium and small tubes

2,5,50,8,black

preset shapes tool, rectangle

gradient, linear, angle 45, repeats 2

draw out a slim rectangle right across your tube

from left to right and towards the bottom of the tag

(but not right at the bottom, leave a gap)

convert to raster

duplicate

hide first rectangle

on duplicate, select all, float, defloat

contract by 7, hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

c/p small tube again 3 or 4 times

position across your tag

merge the tube layers together

on duplicate rectangle

select all, float, defloat, invert

now hit delete on your keyboard on each of the tube layers

apply the brush strokes, crosshatch filter

same settings as before

change blend mode to luminance legacy

unhide first rectangle

change blend mode to whatever looks good on your tag

I used multiply in my first example and duplicated the rectangle to make it slightly darker

new raster layer

floodfill with single color from your tube

select all, contract by 3

hit delete

deselect

Add name, copyright and license information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

To make matching Avatar

Selection tool, custom selection

top & left 0

right 150

bottom 200

edit selection

position the red box on your tag where you like it

edit selection

copy

paste as new image

add the single colour border like we did for the banner

add name, copyright, license info

merge all flatten

save a jpg

Here is another example