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In this lesson we're going to create a tag that you would use on a scrap book page to write messages on or to enter text on and then attach that to a picture or an area of the page that you want to highlight with information. Now I'm really excited about this lesson because if you can see from the example I think this really looks very realistic, amazingly good, and it's actually fairly simple to do. We're going to use some vector shapes and tie them together and use a selection to then fill the solid color in and then throw a layer of text on it and we're done. So let's create our new image, and I'm going to just pull this color from the original example as our background and Flood Fill that; I've got to change back to color, there we go. Now. I'm going to create these shapes - now you can look through your preset shapes to see if there is anything like that tag, but I couldn't find anything. You might be able to buy something that's similar from an add on package or download something from the Web, but what I'm going to show you works really well and it's very easy. So we're going to use a rectangle tool and we're going to create these rounded edges. Fifteen by fifteen. You may have to experiment with different settings yourself to get just the right effect. Now I'm going to choose this pink as my fill color and I'm going to deactivate my stroke color. Now I'm going to reselect my rectangle tool and draw my first rectangle, which shows up like that. Now I should note that actually this pink fill color does absolutely nothing for this right now, but just to aid you to visually see, the color we're choosing now has nothing to do with the color that we're actually going to choose in the end. So, let's; we've created this first bottom rectangle, now we're going to create the shoulder to continue to go up and now we're going to create the very top little bulb that comes out, and if the rectangle doesn't work, you might want to choose ellipse so that you can get a little more of a bulby look. Now, you've probably noticed that I didn't take great pains in lining those up just absolutely correctly, so what I'm going to do is select them all with my pick tool, choose Objects, Align, Center in Canvas and now I'm going to send this big one; I'm going to choose Selection, excuse me Objects, Arrange, and since Send to Bottom is not active, it must be on the bottom already. I'm going to select another shape there, I'm going to bring it up, and then my middle shape, I'm going to bring that up too. And now, if I turn my bottom layer back on, I've got them centered horizontally in the canvas and I'm just going to use my arrow keys, which is, you can't see that I'm doing that but using my arrow keys to nudge these shapes vertically. I know they're already horizontally aligned, so vertically I'm just arranging them until I get just the right profile there, and I can come back and make fine adjustments and so forth. That looks pretty good to me. Now, I'm going to create a new shape here, which I'm going to change colors for, and this will be a circle, and it's going to be our cut-out. There. Now, I'm going to center that in the canvas, and now bring it up with my arrow keys, too. That's the hole that's punched in a tag, where you could tie the tag then to the paper. All right. We are almost done. I'm going to zoom out a little bit, turn my background layer off, reselect everything here and now choose Objects, Group, Objects, excuse me, Selections from Vector Object choose my selection tool, and now I'm going to create a new raster layer, and now I'm going to choose my fill color, and use my Flood Fill tool to fill this tag. Okay. Now, what I could do is go back, actually Ungroup these, select my circle, choose Selections from Vector Object, come back to my raster layer and now delete that from my tag. Okay, so let's deselect everything, turn off our vector layers, so you can see now the tag is complete. Now again, the point is this vector object that I've created, can be any color. You can make it black and white, you can turn on the stroke properties and it just doesn't matter. What we're doing is creating this object entirely to make a selection from it that we then fill with the color of our choosing. Now once we've created that, I'm going to zoom out, apply 3-D drop shadow; I'm going to reduce the blur on that, maybe offset it a little bit, press okay, and now that's really starting to look good. Now we add our text. Choose the Text tool, enter your text, you can angle it or orient it however you like, okay. But you should now be able to create a Text Tag in Paint Shop Pro.