1. Create a new file. Our size was set to 336 and 110 pixels.

2. Add a background texture to your canvas, and smudge this around a bit. You can find some material to work with in our resources section:

3. Make a selection, and fill this with a darkish color. Softly tap with a light brush in the filled area with a darkish color:

4. Grab your eraser, and select a splatter brush. Tap once to delete part of the section:

5. Add a good looking stock to your canvas, and erase the sides. Smudge the edges lightly, like shown below:

6. Set our stocks blending mode to lighten to blend in our stock somewhat:

7. We’re going to lighten our stock, duplicate the stock and set it to screen. If it is too bright, reduce the opacity slightly.

8. Pick a matching background color with the eyedropper tool. Zoom into the canvas, and with a small hard brush, tap around your render. Smudge this with another detailed hard brush to blend our render. Set this layer style to Lighten:

The result zoomed out:

9. Repeat the previous step further to the right, tap with a hard brush on the upper right section of the tag. Use the sharpening tool when you’re done, and set this layer style to Lighten.

10. Add in some texture on the right side of the tag, and set this layer style to Lighten.

11. Add a cinema4d render to your tag, and rotate it to follow the flow of your tag. Erase most of it, and set its blending mode to lighten:

Blending mode set to lighten:

12. Add in a colourful cinema4d effect, and rotate it to flow into the tag. Set its layer style to Lighten

The blending mode changed (smudge the sides if it doesn’t blend into eachother):

13. Add another render, and erase some good looking parts underneath it. Set its layer mode to Lighten afterwards:

Blending mode changed:

14. Another render erased and smudged (Set blending mode to Lighten afterwards):

Its blending mode set to Lighten:

15. Make a new layer, and select a light color from your canvas with the eyedropper tool. Tap a few times nearby your render to create some lighting. You can overdo this, because we’ll set the blending mode to Soft light and reduce the opacity to about 35%:

Blending mode set to Soft Light and opacity reduced to 35%:

16. Select your gradient tool, and pick two colors with the eyedropper tool. Then use your brush and tap softly with a darker color. Set this layer to Lighten afterwards and reduce the opacity to 80%:

17. After changing the blending mode to Lighten and reducing the opacity to 80%:

18. Grab your gradient tool, and pick two good looking colors. Set your gradient tool to angle, and create a gradient:

Set its layer mode to Lighten and reduce the opacity to about 40%, result:

19. We’re going to add a gradient map. Select Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient map, and select something similar to this:

The custom settings:

The result at this point:

20. Reduce this layers opacity to about 25%:

21. Apply the image on a new layer (Image > Apply Image), and sharpen this layer (Filter > Sharpen). If it comes on too stong, reduce its opacity. Our final result:

We hope you’ve enjoyed this Photoshop Tag tutorial. We would appreciate any comments made. Feel free to post your outcome, we will feature it into our post!