Treasure Of The Orient

You will need

My zip file HERE

The mask came from Zuzzanna HERE

Please respect the tubers and do not change file names

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

1: Open a new transparent canvas 575X475 and fill with black.

2: Layers new raster layer. Flood with the gradient angle and repeats set at zero, style linear invert unchecked.

3: Layers, load/save mask from disk. Find the zuz_mask51 and load with the following settings.

Right click on the mask layer. Merge group.

Effects, edge effects enhance more.

4: Open the oriental2 tube.  Click on the bar at the top, Copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. It will be in the right position.

Change the blend mode to hard light and lower the opacity to 50%.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

5: Open the Tube_filly (185). Click on the bar at the top, Copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image mirror.

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

Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Position as in the main graphic placing her arm resting on the mask as in the main graphic.

6: Add the following drop shadow.

7: Open the OrientalFan3~DVDM tube.  Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

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

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Position as in main graphic.

Change the bland mode to hard light.

Add the following drop shadow.

Repeat drop shadow changing the horizontal and vertical settings to - (minus) 5.

8: Click on the layer named group raster 2. It should be one from the bottom copy. Edit paste as a new image. Put this aside for a moment.

9: Image add borders 3 white. Select and fill with the gradient with the following settings. Angle 45 repeats 3, style linear invert not checked.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Select none.

10:Image add borders 34 black.

Select with the magic wand.

Layers new raster layer.

Go back to the copy of the mask layer you just made. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste into selection.

Select none.

Merge all, flatten.

11: Image add borders 4 white. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient same settings as in 9 except change the angle to 133.

Effects, edge effects enhance.

12: Add any test you require and your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on January 28, 2009. Any similarity to other tutorials 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 Gail for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2009