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You will need

Filter Factory C Flutewaves

Funhouse SpyroZag

FM Tile Tools

My zip file HERE

Do not change the file names. If you made any of the tubes please contact me for credit. Thanks!

Import the Flutewaves plugin supplied into Filters Unlimited making sure you don't already have it first.

Place the gradient in your gradients folder.

Open the font and minimize for later use.

1: Open a new transparent canvas 410X320

Flood with the dmsbeauty gradient. Angle 45, repeats 1 linear invert is not checked.

2: Effects, plugins, Funhouse SpyroZag with the default setting.

3: Effects, edge effects enhance.

4: Open the flower-bow tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy. Back to your working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, resize 65% making sure all layers is not checked. Move to the bottom right as in the main graphic.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 60%.

5: Open the kt_wedding_bands tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy. Back to your working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, resize 30% making sure all layers is not checked. Leave the tube where it is in the center of your tag.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

6: Open the sak_wedding20 tube. Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy. Back to your working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, resize 75% making sure all layers is not checked. Image mirror. Move to the bottom left as in the main graphic.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 85%.

7: Open gg_wedding008 tube.  Click on the blue bar at the top. Copy. Back to your working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, rotate, free rotate 22 left.

Image, resize 67% making sure all layers is not checked.

Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to 85%.

 Move to the top left as in the main graphic.

8: When you are happy with the positioning of your tubes, merge all flatten.

9: Image add borders 2 using #887a5c.

10: Image, add borders 6 white.

Select with the magic wand tolerance and feather set to 0. Flood with the gradient same settings as before.

11: Image add borders 2 using #887a5c.

12: Selections, select all. Selections, modify contract by 11. Selections invert.

Effects, plugins Filter Factory C Flutewaves with the following settings:

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Selections invert.

13: Effects, 3D effects cutout with the following settings:

Repeat the cutout with the vertical and horizontal set at 2.

Select none.

14: Using #887a5c as your foreground and the gradient as your background type in the required text. Be sure to create your text as a vector so as you can pull it around until you are happy with it. When you are satisfied convert to raster layer.

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

16: Adjust sharpness, sharpen twice.

Merge all. Flatten.

17: Effects, plugins, FM Tile Tools, Blend Emboss once.

Add your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on November 18, 2006. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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

Thank you to   for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2006