You will need

FM Tile tools

My zip file HERE

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

TUBE_192 by Lyankhan HERE

Maxyran_13_09_09 Women83 by MaxyranTop Tubes HERE

1: Place the dmsvalentine gradient in your gradients file. Set as your background angle 0, repeats 0 style linear. Invert ischecked.

Set your foreground to black.

Import the brush.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 625 X 500 and fill with the gradient.

3: Layers new raster layer.

Selections select all.

4: Open the TUBE_192 tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste into selection.

Select none.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to about 30.

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

Repeat blend emboss once.

6: Layers new raster layer.

7: Select the airbrush and locate the ame_bamboo 001 with the following settings.

Click the airbrush twice on the right side of your canvas as in the main graphic.

8: Open the Maxyran_13_09_09 Women83 tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to your working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

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

Image mirror.

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

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

10: Open the dmspot. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

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

Position as in the main graphic. Change the blend more to luminance legacy.

11: Make sure the bamboo looks as if it's standing in the pot.

Using the eraser click on the bamboo layer (it should be the 3rd from the bottom) and erase any showing through the pot.

12: Go back to the pot layer.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

13: Add both drop shadows as in 9.

14: Image add borders 29 black.

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

16: Merge all Flatten.

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

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 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 Cat for testing this tutorial.

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