Ebony Dreams

You will need

My zip file HERE

Daisy and Roxanne's tubes used with permission. You can receive all of their creations by joining their Yahoo group HERE Do not change any file names.

FM Tile Tools

Put the gradient where you keep your gradients.

1: Open a new transparent canvas 550X375.

Flood with the dmsebony gradient angle 45 repeats 0, linear.

2: Open the DaisyWeb_SunsetOnTheSeashore-02 tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and the transparency to 55.

Effects plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default settings.

3: Open the Misted_Jennifer_Hudson_RM tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize 80% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked.

Position as in the main graphic.

4: Open the dmsjfoxx tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image mirror.

Image resize 70% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 22%. Position as in the main graphic.

5: Open the dmsebonytext. Click on the blue bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

6: When you are happy how everything is positioned, merge all, flatten.

7: Image add borders 2 #513c45.

8: Image add borders 15 white.

Select with the magic wand tolerance and feather set at zero.

Flood with the dmsebony gradient angle 45 repeats 3, linear

Leave selected.

9: Open the ebonyframe. Click on the blue bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste into selection.

Select none.

10: Image add borders 5,  #513c45.

11: Add your watermark and any other text you wish and you are all done. I have added the Caramel Script font to the zip file if you would like to use the same one that I did.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on July 25, 2007.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. 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 Geri for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2007