Today we will make a textured tag in Photoshop Elements 6 using the custom shape tool.

First open a new 4 by 4. Choose your desired color from the color pallette and click the custom shape tool, it is a blue heart toward the bottom of your tool pallette. From the selection area click on the small double arrow off to the right of the thumbnail pictures of the shapes. Go to “ALL Elements Shapes” and click. This will bring the thumbnails of all the custom shapes you have available to you. Scroll down the list until you find the rounded square tool and select it.

Go to your workspace and create a tall rectangle, this will be the bottom of your tag. Go back to the shape’s list and select the hexagon(stopsign) shape. Go back to your workspace and create a hexagon aproxamately the same width as your rectangle. Do not worry about it being perfect because you can always resize it to match. You want to line up the two shapes so that it appears to be a seamless tag. Once it is lined up go over to your layer workspace and right click each layer and simplify them. Once they are simplified right click and merge the layers.

Now go to your tool pallette and select the eliptical marque tool, select-left click on your workspace to create the hole for the tag. If it is not even just hover the mouse over the selected area until you see a pointer and drag the circle to your desired position. Once you are satisfied with its placement go to Edit and select Cut to remove the color from the selected area.

Next we add the texture to the tag by going to Filters>Render>Fiber, when the screen pops up you want the variance level to be 37 and the strength level to be 4. Once this has applied duplicate your layer; making sure your duplicate layer is selected go to your styles menu. Choose Wow-Neon from the dropdown menu, choose one that matches the color you used for the tag. Experiment with them until you find one that you like. After the style has been applied go to your layer pallette change the opacity level of the duplicate later to 59% and merge both layers.

Create a duplicate layer once again and go to the Wow-Chrome in your styles dropdown menu and select the Wow-Chrome Textured thumbnail and click apply. Now change the opacity of this layer until you are satisfied with the way the tag looks. Merge the layers and save as a .png file to maintain transparency. Remember you are in control of the final results, play around with the opacity layers or levels of filters and styles until you find the perfect result for you.

Congratulations on making a textured tag, goodnight and kiss your babies.

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