This wicked the musical inspired tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 11th Jan 2009
 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of Ted Hammond
This is a pay to use artist so you should not use this artists work without purchasing the appropriate licence to do so - From CILM HERE

For this tut you will need PSP, Animation shop and Eye candy 4000

Moonlight Freebie scrap kit made by me available from my blog HERE

WICKED FREEBIE scrap kit also made by me from HERE

font used was Ravenscroft you can get it HERE

ok onto the tutorial
unzip your suplies, ready for use...

OPEN A NEW CANVAS
600X300

you could make it smaller but i didnt, so we will go with the size i made it..lol

open up ct-moonlightpaper2 and copy and paste it onto your canvas as a new layer...

copy and paste the grey defying gravity ribbon as a new layer onto your canvas,

resize using smartsize by 60% and place towards the top of your canvas.

duplicate this ribbon and place so that both ribbons now cover the top of your canvas,

if unsure see my tag.

now go to Layers - Merge - Merge down
so that the 2 ribbons are merged onto the same layer

repeat for the green defying gravity ribbon. and place at the bottom of the canvas.

now copy and paste the ct-Wicked Wordart2
resize by 50% using smartsize. and add a drop shadow, by going to

Effects - 3d effects - drop shadow. and use the following settings.

now add the close up of the 2 Ted Hammond tubes that you get when you buy this tube from CILM.
and place onto your canvas, see my tag for palcement. add the same dropshadow as before...

now add your © information, and your name. for my name i used Ravenscroft font set at the following settings

Background colour black, foreground colour white
font size 72 Stroke 2 anti alias set to sharp.

now add a small grey border bu going to Image- add borders and use these settings, make sure you change the colour to grey...

ok this part you may find a little tricky if your new to PSP, but we need to tube out the cauldron from the full length tube ....

ok with your freehand tool get rid of the girl we dont need her,

your settings for the freehand tool should be as follows

dont worry it doesnt have to be perfect this time, so dont get too close to the cauldron.
do this by left clicking around the cauldron,with your freehand tool, you should get little marching ants when you join the start point and end point ....double click to end...SEE BELOW...

cut and paste as a new image, now add a new layer and floodfill with a contrasting colour so you can see clearly, i used red.

zoom in to about 300%,
make sure your cauldron layer is active, by clicking on it.

now we want to tube out any residual girl from the cauldron.....you will see in my preview, i have a bit of leg to remove,

select your freehand tool again with the same settings as before. and carefully go round the image outline that you want to remove
hit the delete key twice. this will remove the excess you want to get rid of.

if you look at my preview, you will see what i removed, you do the same.

for the purpose of this tut, do not worry about her foot at the bottom you will not see it in this tag.....
fiddly tubing is over,lol

Thanks for trying my tutorial.
I hope you enjoyed it

I love to see your results so feel free to show via EMAIL or I can be found at my Forum HERE