A Good Friend

You will need

Maura's Meister Cloud

FM Tile Tools

My zip file HERE

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

1: Set your foreground to #89673a and your background to #483017. Then change your foreground to the dmsgoodfriendbg angle 0 scale 100.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 600X480.

Effects, plugins Maura's Meister Cloud with the default settings.

3: Open the DI_tube375 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 to the bottom left corner. We can move this before we merge all so it's not too important right now.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and lower the opacity to around 50% or a setting you prefer.

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

4: June Series Scenery 1 - 5. 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 up so as the trees look as if they are growing on the land of the tube below.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and lower the opacity to around 50% or a setting you prefer.

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

5: Open the Forever Friend EGS 8.14 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Move to the bottom right as in the main graphic.

Apply the following drop shadow.

Repeat drop shadow with the vertical and horizontal set at - (minus) 1

6: Open the dmsgoodfriendtext tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas, paste as a new layer. Move to the upper left.

7: Check the first 2 tubes for position so as they look as in the main graphic. Once you are happy how everything looks merge all, flatten.

8: Image add borders 3 #483017.

9: Image add borders 25 #89673a. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the dmsgoodfriendbg.

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

Select none.

10: Repeat step 8.

11: Add your watermark and any other text you require. Resize if you wish. You are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on August 4, 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.