The Wonder Of You

The Wonder Of You

You will need

FM Tile Tools Plugin

2 tubes of your own One a full body tube the other head and shoulders.

My zip file HERE

Please do not change the file names. The tubes came from photos take on a very special vacation.

1: Open a new transparent canvas 600X 500.

Flood with the gradient. Angle and repeats set at zero, style linear.

2: Open the DMSHawaiiansunset1 tube. Making sure the tube layer is active, click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position at the top right as in the main graphic. Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and the opacity to 50%

3: Open the DMSHawaiianwaterfall tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position at the top left as in the main graphic. Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and the opacity to 50%

4: With the lasso tool feather set at 12 select the area to the right of the waterfall. Hit delete once. Select none. If you miss any of the side of the waterfall select again hit delete once.

Move your waterfall and your sunset so as they sit nicely next to each other.

5: Open the DMSHawaiianbeach1 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position at the bottom right as in the main graphic. Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and the opacity to 30%.

6: When you are happy with the way everything looks merge all, flatten.

7: Effect, plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss. Repeat Blend Emboss once.

8: Open the full body tube that you have chosen yourself. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position at the bottom right as in the main graphic. You may need to resize depending on the tube you have used. Lower the opacity on this tube to about 80% again depending on your tube.

9: Open the head and shoulders tube that you have chosen yourself. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position at the bottom left as in the main graphic. You may need to resize depending on the tube you have used. Lower the opacity on this tube to about 90% again depending on your tube.

10: When you are happy with the way everything looks merge all, flatten.

11: Open the dmswonderofyoutext. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to your working image. Paste as a new layer. Position as in the main graphic.

12: Merge all, flatten.

13: Layers new raster layer. Flood with the gradient. Angle zero repeats set at 3, style linear.

14: Selections, select all. Selections modify, contract by 20.

Selections, modify, selection borders 4. Anti alias and both side checked. Selections invert. Hit delete once.

15: Effects, 3D effects inner bevel with the following settings

Select none.

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

Repeat the drop shadow with the vertical and horizontal at -5 (minus 5)

17: Layers new raster layer. Flood with the gradient. Angle zero repeats set at 3, style linear.

18: Selections select all. Selections modify, contract by 6. Hit delete once. Selections invert.

19: Apply the same inner bevel as in 15.

Select none.

20: Apply the same drop shadows as in 16.

21: If any of your full body tube is under either of the frames you just made lower the opacity on them so as you can see your tube underneath. Very carefully remove the frame that covers the tube only. You can keep putting up the opacity to see how it looks. When everything is how you want it merge all, flatten.

Add any other text you may require, add your watermark, resize if you wish and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on May 31, 2008. 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 was written to honour my wonderful husband, Geoff.

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

Thank you to Cat and Reenie for testing this tutorial.