My Heart

You will need

My zip file HERE

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

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

Set your foreground to the dmsmyheart angle 45 repeats 0 style linear, invert is not checked.

Set your background to a gold pattern or gradient of your choice angle 0 scale 100.

Settings will remain the same unless otherwise stated.

2: Open the dmsheartalpha. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original. Fill with the gradient.

3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with #f4ead6.

4: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk,. Find the 62~T and apply with the following settings.

Layers, merge, merge group.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

5: Layers new raster layer.

Selections, load/save selections, load selection from alpha channel. Apply selection 1.

Fill the selection with the gradient angle 133 repeats 7 style radial.

Leave selected.

6: Adjust blur Gaussian blur 8.

Select none.

7: Adjust sharpness, sharpen more.

8: Layers, new raster layer.

Selections, load/save selections, load selection from alpha channel. Apply selection 2.

Fill with gold.

Select none.

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

10: Open the crisortega 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.

Position as in the main graphic.

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

Position as in main graphic.

Lower the opacity so as you can see the woman's fingers through the heart.

Using the eraser remove the parts of the heart that cover her fingers so as the heart looks to be held within her hand. (Zooming in will help on this stage)

When you are done return the opacity back to 100%.

12: Open the dmsbf1 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.

Position as in the main graphic.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy.

13: Using the deform to rotate the butterfly slightly to the left.

14: Add the same drop shadow as in 9, but lower the opacity to 50%.

When you are happy with the position of your tubes merge all, flatten.

15: Image add borders 2 #d8b48b.

16: Image add borders 20 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the gradient settings as in 5.

17: Image add borders 2 #d8b48b.

18: Open the dmsmyheartframe. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer. It will be in the correct position.

19: Add any text you may require and your watermark. Merge all, flatten.

Save as a jpg and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on June 9, 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.