Angel Keeper

Angel Keeper

You will need

FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss

My zip file HERE

Credit for CJ_Beautiful Angel_mist 3A, CJ_Frame 100B and CJ_Peach Rose 8_Mist goes to Carol of Angel keeper Designs HERE

Please respect the tubers and do not change the file names.

Place the gradient in your gradients folder.

This tutorial is another of my quick and simple ones. Enjoy!

1: Open a new transparent canvas 575X424 and fill with the gradient. Angle and repeats both set at zero style linear invert not checked.

2: Open the CJ_Beautiful Angel_mist 3A tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer.

Close out the tube.

Position as in the main graphic.

Lower the opacity to 80%

3: Layers new raster layer.

4: Open the CJ_Frame 100B. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image.

Selections select all.

Click on the bar at the top, paste into selection. Select none

Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

5: With the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero mode add/shift select the outside of the frame where you can see the angel tube outside the main border. See my screenshot.

6: Move to the layer with the angel tube and hit delete twice.

Select none.

7: Make sure the background layer is active.

Open the CJ_Peach Rose 8_Mist tube. Click on the bar at the top. Back to the main image. Paste as a new layer.

Move to the right so as we don't lose it when we resize.

Image resize by 65% making sure all layers is not checked. Image mirror. Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Image duplicate.

8: X out the top copy. Move the bottom copy up and position as in the main image.

Change the blend mode to Luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 25%.

9: Working on the copy of the rose change the blend mode to luminance legacy. Change the opacity to 50%

10: Making sure the top rose layer is active right click on that layer. Merge, merge down. This will join both rose layers together.

11: Effects, plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss default settings. Repeat Blend Emboss once.

12: Make the frame layer active once more. Select the outside as you did in 5 but this time on the right side where the roses are.

13: Go back to the roses layer. Hit delete twice.

Select none.

14: Open the dmsangelkeepertext. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to the working image. Paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

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

16: Go back to the frame layer. This time select all of the outside of the frame.

17: Click on the bottom layer that you filled with the gradient.

Adjust add/remove noise. Add noise with the following settings.

Leave selected.

18: Adjust sharpness, sharpen. Select none.

19: When you are happy how everything is placed merge all, flatten.

20: Image add borders 1 black.

21: Add any other text you require and your watermark.

Save as a JPG and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on November 4, 2008.

This tutorial was written for a very talented lady who supplied the rose, angel and frame tubes for this tutorial. You can find Carol's beautiful work here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/angelkeeperdesigns/ and here: http://sales.angelkeeperdesigns.com/

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 frame.

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.