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ELEMENT: Torn Tag
By KimLizzy 2005 - Member Submission
Aug 18, 2005, 03:24

Open your tag template.

Right click on your tag and select “copy”

Go to File/New/Done  (in DIP, the new canvas is automatically the exact size of the item you copied.)

Right click on your new canvas and “paste” your tag.  

Close the original.

Fill your tag with colour of choice: Effects/fill with colour or texture/more solid colour choices and use the colour wheel to select a colour.

Duplicate your tag:  Ctrl + D

Keeping the top layer selected, add filters if required: Effects/Filters/all filters and choose a filter you like.

Still on the top layer select your Freehand Tool  and starting OFF the canvas, trace an uneven line across the bottom quarter or third of your tag. Go off the canvas, down the side, around the bottom and back up to the starting point.

Click on the normal Selection Tool

Right click on your tag and select “copy” then right click again and select “paste”.

Right click on the middle layer in the stack and delete it.

You will now see the bottom layer with the smaller top layer.  Add texture to the bottom layer if required.

Keep the top layer selected and using the Freehand Tool trace around the top area.

Click on the normal Selection Tool

Right click on the tag and select “copy” then right click again and select “paste”

Keeping this new section selected go to Effects/fill with colour or texture and select white (or colour of choice)

Add texture to this layer by going to Effects/Filters/all filters/texturizer and selecting a look you like.

Left click on the white layer and using the UP arrow on your keyboard move it up slightly.

On the Stack, left click on the white layer and drag it down so it is in the middle.  The stack now looks like this:

Click on the white layer and adjust the depth up or down by again using the Up or Down arrow on your keyboard. (It won’t work unless you click on the actual white layer.  If you select it from the Stack it won’t work.)

With the middle white layer selected, go to Effects/Transparency Brush.  Adjust the brush size and select either hard or soft edge and 100% transparency depending on your preference.  Gently move the brush along the top edge of the white layer.  You don’t need it to be exactly the same as the top layer.

Give your edge a shadow. 

Keeping the middle layer selected go to Effects/Shadow/Drop Up Right and position your shadow as shown. Adjust the transparency levels to suit.   To make it easier to see I have made the shadow darker in this example.

When you are happy with the shadow click Done to return to the workspace.

Flatten your layers:  Edit/Flatten all objects.  Save as png

Done!