**For the Autumn templates - scroll down to about half way, look to the right, click on the link "Tracy's Autumn Templates 1-7"**

Start by opening your Autumn Template 2 -

Go to Image - click Canvas Size - set to 800 X 600 (Don't worry you will crop it at the end of the tutorial)

Now go to your layers pallet & delete the following layers :

Tracy F. Designz - (Credit layer) - **Please leave Tracy a thank-you when you download the templates :-)**

Stars 1

Stars 2

Rectangle 1

Rectangle 2

Leaves 

Now in your layers pallet - click on your Shape layer - go to Selections - click Select All, go back to Selections & click Float - back to Selections - click Defloat -

Now open Paper 02 - Copy & Paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 50%, 3 times.

Then use your move tool to adjust the position of your Paper 02 to your liking within the marching ants. Once happy with placement go to Selections & click Invert. 

Now on your keyboard press your Delete key 1 time.

Now go back to Selections & click Select None.

Then go to Effects - click Plugins - then click Eye Candy 5 Impact - then click Gradient Glow -

**You can use my settings below or your own, the choice is always yours**

Then click Ok.

Now go to Effects - click 3D Effects - then click Drop Shadow -

**See note on screen shot**

Then click Ok.

Now go to your layers pallet - delete your original Shape layer.

Then still in your layers pallet - click on your Back Plate layer - then follow all of the steps above that you followed for your Shape layer. Only this time use a different paper. The paper I chose to use was Paper 05. 

Now in your layers pallet - click on your Square 2 layer - go to Selections - click Select All - Float - Defloat -

Now make a new raster layer - set your background color to #7e4f35, then using your Flood Fill tool, click inside your Square 2 area.

Now keeping your Square 2 selected, open your tube of choice - Copy & paste it as  a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it if needed. I did not re-size my tube.

Now position it to your liking. Then go to Selections, click Invert - then on your keyboard press your Delete key 1 time. Then go to Selections - click Select None.

Now go to your layers pallet - right click on your tube layer - then click Duplicate. Then go to Adjust - click Blur - then click Gaussian Blur - set it to 5.00 & click Ok.

Now go back to your layers pallet - change your Blend Mode from Normal to Overlay.

Then click on your Original tube layer - now go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow. (Use same settings as before, click OK.)

Now go to your layers pallet & delete your original Square 2 layer.

Now follow those same steps for your Square 1 layer.

Now click on your Frame 1 layer - go to Adjust - click Add/Remove Noise - set to Uniform, 100 & make sure your Monochrome box is checked, then click Ok.

Then go to Effects - click 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (Same settings, click Ok)

Now in your layers pallet - click on your Frame 2 layer - apply the same Noise setting & drop shadow to this layer as well.

In your layers pallet - click on your Ribbon layer - Use your move tool to position your Ribbon to the upper left corner of your Frame 2 . Go to Adjust - Sharpness - click Sharpen.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok.)

Now in your layers pallet - click on your Strap 2 layer - Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat -

Make a new raster layer - set your background color to #728c31 - then using your Flood Fill tool - click inside your marching ants. Selections - Select None.

Now go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

Now go to your layers pallet - and delete your original Strap 2 layer.

Now follow those same steps for the following layers :

Strap 1

Strap 3

Strap 4

Don't forget to delete each original layer once you have made the new colored layer.

Now click on your new Strap 1 layer - go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - set to Uniform , 35, make sure your Monochrome box is checked & click OK.

Now add that noise setting to the following layers :

Strap 2

Strap 3

Strap 4

Now open your full tube - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 90%. Then using your move tool position your tube to the center of your template.

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your full tube layer - click Duplicate. Now go to Adjust - click Blur - then click Gaussian Blur - set to 5.00 & click Ok.

Now change your Blend Mode from Normal - to Overlay.

Then click on your Original tube layer - 

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (Same settings, click Ok)

Now lets add some elements to our tag :

Open your Wordart 01 - Copy & Paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 30%, then re-size it again to 70%, then again to 80%. Use your move tool to position your Wordart 01 to the center of your template.

Go to Effects - click Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow :

Then click on your Color tab :

Set your color to black #000000

Then click OK.

Now go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

Now go to your layers pallet - move your Wordart 01 layer down so that it is below ALL of your tube layers.

Now click back on the very top layer in your layers pallet -

Open your Woodfence element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 30%, then again to 50%. Position it using your Move Tool center on your template at the bottom. (See my tag if needed)

Now go to Effects - Plugins - click Xero - then click Radiance -

Then click Ok.

Now go to Effects - 3D Effects - then click Inner Bevel -

**I forgot to write this on this screen shot, but we will be using Inner Bevel through out this tutorial, once you set your settings here , they are the same settings you will use on the other elements, so you will only have to open the Inner Bevel menu, then just click Ok each time.**

Then click Ok

Then Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

In your layers pallet - move your Wood Fence layer down so that it is under BOTH of your full tube layers.

Now open your Tree 01 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 30%, then re-size it again to 75%, then one more time to 85%. Use your move tool & position your Tree element to the left end of your Wood Fence element. 

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings as before, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings as before, click OK)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Now go to your layers pallet - move your Tree01 layer down below all of your tube & frame layers.

Now right click on your Tree 01 layer - then click Duplicate - then go to Image & click Mirror. Now use your Move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated Tree 01 element if needed.

Open your Pumpkin 01  element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 20%. Then re-size it again to 50%. Now using your move tool, position your Pumpkin 01 element to the left end of your Wood Fence element. 

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings as before, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings as before, click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Now go to your layers pallet - right click on your Pumpkin 01 layer - then click Duplicate. Go to Image - click Mirror. Now use your Move Tool to adjust the position of your duplicated Pumpkin 01 element to the right end of your Wood Fence element.

Open your Bow 2 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10%, then again to 40%. Now use your move tool & position your Bow on your fence.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (Same settings, click Ok)

Now go to your layers pallet - right click on your Bow2 layer - then click Duplicate. Now use your move tool to position your 2nd Bow 2 element to your liking.

Now open your Bow 1 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10% then again to 40%. Now use your move tool to position to your liking.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your Bow 1 layer - click Duplicate - now use your move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated Bow 1 element.

Open your Owl 01 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10%, then again to 40%. Use your move tool & position your Owl 01 element to your liking.

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (Same settings, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings , click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your Owl 01 layer - click Duplicate, now use your move tool to position your duplicated Owl 01 element to your liking.

Open your Wood Sign 01 - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 30%. Now position your Wood Sign 01 element to your liking.

Go to Effects - Plugins - Xero - Radiance (Use same settings as before & click Ok)

Now Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (Same settings, click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Open Element 02 - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 30%, then again to 30%. Now use your move tool & position your Element 02 to the lower right corner of your template.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings , click Ok.)

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your Element 02 layer - click Arrange - then click Send To Bottom.

Now go to your Element 02 layer - right click, click Duplicate - now go to Image - click Mirror.

Use your move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated Element 02 to the lower left corner of your template.

Now go back to your layers pallet - right click on your Duplicated Element 02 layer - click Merge - then click Merge Down.

Now right click on your Merged Element 02 layer - click Duplicate. Now go to Image - click Flip.

Use your move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated merged Element 02 .

Open your Chipmunk element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10%, then again to 80%. Now position your Chipmunk element so it is in front of your Wood Fence element on the right side.

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings , click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your Chipmunk layer - click Duplicate. Now go to Image & click Mirror. Use your move tool to position your duplicated Chipmunk element to the left end of your Wood Fence element.

Now open your Acorn element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10%, then again to 80%. Now position your Acorn element so it is in front of your Wood Fence element on the right side in front of your Chipmunk element.

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings , click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Go to your layers pallet - right click on your  Acorn layer - click Duplicate. Now go to Image & click Mirror. Use your move tool to position your duplicated Acorn element to the left end of your Wood Fence element.

Open your Flower 02  element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10%, then again to 40%. Now use your move tool & position your Flower 2 element to your liking.

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (Same settings, Click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Then go to your layers pallet - right click on your Flower 02 layer - then click Duplicate, now use your move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated Flower 02 element to your liking.

Then go back to your layers pallet - right click on your Duplicated Flower 2 layer & click Duplicate again, position to your liking. Do this 1 more time, so that you have a total of 4 Flower 02 elements positioned around your template.

Open your Scare Crow element - Copy & Paste it as a new layer onto your canvas - then re-size it to 10% then again to 80%. Now position your Scare Crow element to the left end of your Wood Fence element. 

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel (same settings, click Ok)

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings, click Ok)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Now go to your layers pallet - move your Scare Crow layer down so that it is directly under your Wood Fence layer.

Then right click on your Scare Crow layer - click Duplicate - now use your Move Tool & move your duplicated Scare Crow element to the right end of your Wood Fence element. (See my tag for example if needed)

Now you will want to add your name & copyright information.

For the name I used :

Font : Comic Scan

Size : 20 Pixels (Depends on where you place your name, and the length of your name)

Background Color : #000000

Foreground Color : Set to nul

Apply & position your name.

Now go to your layers pallet - right click on your Name layer - click Convert To Raster Layer.

Then go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow. You will basically use the exact same settings as you did for your Wordart 01. However you will want to change the color of the glow to WHITE (#ffffff). 

Then click OK.

Now go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow

This time on your drop shadow settings, if you place your name on the sign element like I did, you will want to  lower your drop shadow a bit, so where you see the 3's. Change those to 1's. Then click Ok.

Now add your copyright & credit information. (IMPORTANT)

The font I use for my copyright/credit info is Pixelette

Now once happy with all elements & wording on your tag, go to your layers pallet - right click on any layer - then click Merge - then click Merge Visible.

Now activate your Crop tool & Crop off any access canvas that you did not use.

Then you may or may not need to re-size your tag. Depending on where you will be using it.

If you re-size your completed tag, make sure that you apply one more Sharpen.

Then all that is left is to save your tag as a PNG file & you have completed this tutorial!♥