Catwalk

You will need

Maura's Meister Cloud

My zip file HERE

Please respect those who made the contents and do not change the file names

1: Place the mask in your mask folder and the gradient in your gradients folder.

Set the foreground to #b71f2f and the background to #500003.

Then set your foreground to the dmscatwalk gradient angle 45 repeats zero style linear. Invert is not checked.

Settings will stay the same unless noted.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 625X500.

3: Effects, plugins Maura's Meister cloud with the default settings.

4: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the gradient.

5: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Locate the star 3 mask and apply with the following settings.

Layers, merge, merge group.

6: Effects, edge effects enhance more.

7: Open the butterfly tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Lower the opacity to around 50%.

8: Making sure the butterfly layer is active duplicate this layer. Image mirror. You will see 4 of the butterflies land on top of others. Using the eraser remove the 4 butterflies on the top layer. You should have this when you are done.

Layers, merge, merge down.

9: Open the 1880-luzcristina tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Image resize 70% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked. Adjust sharpness, sharpen. She will be in the correct place.

10: Apply the following drop shadow.

Repeat drop shadow with - (minus) 5 at vertical and horizontal.

11: Merge all flatten.

12: Image add borders 2 #500003.

13: Image add borders 20 white. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the gradient changing the repeats to 7. Leave selected.

14: Adjust blur, Gaussian blur 9. Leave selected.

15: Adjust, add/remove noise, add noise with the following settings.

Select none.

16: Open the dmscatwalkframe. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas, paste as a new layer. It will be in the correct place.

Merge all, flatten.

17: Repeat step 12.

18: Add any text you may require and your watermark. Resize if you wish and save as a jpg image. You're all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on August 3, 2009

No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this tag.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Chris for testing this tutorial.