You will need

Eye Candy 3.1

Simple Top Left Mirror

My zip file HERE

Corner comes from Designs by Sandee HERE

Mask is from Zuzzanna HERE

Background tube comes from Staitlee HERE

Download all of her wonderful tubes HERE

Fairy tube by Kat. Sorry I no longer have a link for her.

If you do please share.

Please respect the tubers and do not change file names

1: Place the gradient in your foreground and #b6469b in your background.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 550X425 and fill with the dmsfantasyland gradient angle 45 repeats 1 style linear invert is not checked.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur 8.

3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the gradient same settings except change the angle to 133.

4: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find the zuzzanna_winther_mask and apply with the following settings.

Layers, merge, merge group.

Effects, edge effects enhance.

5: Effects 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.

Reapply the drop shadow using -5 (minus 5) at vertical and horizontal)

6: Click on the bottom layer to make it active. It should be raster layer one.

7: Open the Stait_LandofTranquility tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer. It should be in the right place.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

8: Click on the top layer to make it active. It should be the merged group.

9: Open the Kat_0082 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.

Move her to the left as in the main graphic.

Apply both drop shadows as in 5.

10: When you are happy how everything looks, merge all, flatten.

11: Image add borders 2 #b6469b.

12: Image add borders 18 with a colour not in your graphic. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient angle 45, repeats 5 style linear invert is not checked.

Leave selected.

13: Effects, plugins Eye Candy 3.1 glass with the following settings.

Select none.

14: Repeat step 11.

15: Open the sde_cnr95. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Position in the top left corner.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy.

Add the same drop shadows as in 5.

16: Effects, plugins, Simple, Top Left Mirror.

17: Add any text you require and your watermark. Save as a jpg image and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on May 27, 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.

© D.M.S Creations 2009