Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Barb Jensen

which you can purchase from her store HERE

Fonts - Great Victorian Swashes & Distant Stroke HERE and HERE

Eye Candy 4

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 6th February 2017  and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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open blank canvas 700 x 250

copy and paste tube as new layer

duplicate several times and position 

all over your canvas so there are no gaps

merge visible

adjust - blur - motion blur

angle 61, strength 100

repeat 

duplicate layer

selection tool - rectangle, feather 0

draw out a rectangular selection from top to bottom

anywhere on your tag,

invert

delete

deselect

Image, mirror

change blend mode to burn (or whatever suits your tag)

copy and paste tube as new layer

move to one side of your tag (let or right, its your choice)

dropshadow 2,5,50,8,black

duplicate tube

image mirror

change blend mode to screen

lower opacity to around 75

(With the tube I used, I copied the dragon arm tattoo

and pasted as a new layer, then positioned it in the

bottom left corner of my tag)

Now move the "burn" rectangle layer to the top

of your layer palette

duplicate

image, rotate, left 90

use your deformation tool to squash it down so its thinner

and drag it out from one side so its longer

Position the vertical rectangle halfway across your tube

position the horizontal rectangle across your tube about 3/4

of the way down it, going off the edge of your tag

but not right to the bottom of the tag, leave enough room for borders

new raster layer

floodfill with color of choice

select all, contract by 6

delete

expand by 2

invert

floodfill black

invert

expand by 2

invert floodfill with 1st color again

deselect

Add name

Great Victorian Swashes, size 72

light color from your tag

type out your name

convert to raster

Add a nice inner bevel

Add a gradient glow, use the fat setting but 

change the colour from white to a lighter shade 

of the same color you used for the name

glow width 3

opacity 75

dropshadow

Change font to Distant Stroke, size 48

color black

type out your name again

add the same gradient glow as before

opacity 100

dropshadow

position this name on top of the first one

Add copyright and license information

merge all, flatten

save as jpg