These Words

These Words

You will need

Funhouse plugin Xaggerate

Simple plugin Top Left Mirror

FM Tile Tools plugin

My zip file HERE

Please do not change the file names. If you made the tubes please contact me for credit

Place the gradient in your gradients folder.

1: Open a transparent canvas 525X350. Flood fill with the dmssilver gradient angle 45 repeats 0 linear.

2:Effects plugins Funhouse Xaggerate with the default settings.

3: Effect, plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default setting. Repeat blend emboss once.

4: Open the Misted_Behind_The_Curtain_RM tube. Make sure the layer with the lady is active. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Move her to the left hand side as in my main graphic. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

5: Open the rw-RosePetals&LoveSongs~misted-4-08-07. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer. Move below the layer with the lady.

Image resize by 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Adjust sharpness, sharpen. Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 40%.

6: Open the LJH_YellowRosesz254a Make sure you are on the layer with the roses. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat this resize twice more. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 70%.

Position as in main image.

7:Effect, plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default setting.

8: Open the TheseWords tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 60% making sure all layers is not checked.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 70%.

Position as in main image.

9: Open the hmo_flowerkey tube. Click on the blue bar at the top making sure the charm on the chain layer is selected. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer.

Move to the top right corner as in my main image. Change the blend mode to luminance legacy.

Image resize by 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat this resize twice more. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen. Repeat sharpen twice more.

Effects 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.

10:Open the lace edging tube. Click on the blue bar at the top making sure the charm on the chain layer is selected. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer. Pull to the top of your layer palent.

Image resize by 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat this resize twice more. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Using the raster deform tool stretch the lace to fit right across your image. Position as in my main graphic.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen more.

11: Add the same drop shadow as in 9, but change the colour to #404040.

12: When you are happy with the positioning of everything merge all, flatten.

13: Image add borders 2 #404040.

14: Image add borders 15 white. Select and fill with the dmssilver gradient same settings except change the repeats to 3.

Adjust add, remove noise, add noise with the following settings.

Select none.

15: Image add borders 2 #404040.

16: Open the fairytubeles1 corner. Click on the blue bar at the top making sure the charm on the chain layer is selected. Copy, back to your working canvas, paste as a new layer. Change the blend mode to luminance legacy. Adjust sharpness sharpen.

Add the same drop shadow as in 11.

17: Effects, plugins Simple Top Left Mirror. Merge all, flatten.

18: Add your watermark and any text you require. Save as a JPG image. You're all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on July 19, 2007.

Any 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 tag.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Cate and Chris for testing this tutorial.