Geri

Geri

You will need

My zip file HERE

I did not make the lady tube. The name is left as it was. Please contact me for credit if you made the original.

1: Open a new transparent canvas 400X 325.

2: Open your tube in PSP. Select a medium colour for your foreground and a lighter colour for your background. Then click on gradient and select the foreground/background, angle 45 repeats 3 linear. Invert is not checked. Flood fill the blank canvas with the gradient.

3: Go back to your tube. Make sure it is no taller than 200 pixels. If you need to resize don't forget to sharpen.

4: Back to your working canvas. Add a new raster layer. Open the geri selections. It will seem blank, but the selection is stored inside.

Selections, load/save selection, load from alpha channel and select the arch.

5: Select a darker colour from your image. Select the fill tool. Set the blend mode to darken and click the fill tool 2-3 times inside the selection. This may vary depending on how dark your fill colour is. Select none.

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

The colour should be a dark one from your image.

7: Go back to your tube. Click on the top blue bar copy. Go back to the working canvas. Paste as new layer. Position your tube on the working canvas.

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

9: Open the Geri flowers tube. Colorize to match your image. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position on the left side of your graphic. See my main image as a guide. Add the same drop shadow as in 8.

10: Making sure the layer with the flowers is active. Layers duplicate. Image mirror. Merge visible.

11: Open the Geri frame. Colorize if you need to. Copy and paste as a new layer on your working canvas.

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

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 17, 2005. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written to honour my good friend Gerelene (Geri.) Geri can always make me laugh on the grayest of days. Her sense of humour brings laughter to everyone she meets. Love you my "Twisted Sister."

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

Thank you to Angie and Shirley for testing this tutorial.