Sweet Sierra

You Will Need

My zip file HERE

1: Open the Sierraselections. Shift D to duplicate and close the original.

2: Select a medium colour from your tube for your foreground and a lighter colour for your background. Select gradient foreground/background. Angle 45 repeats 3 linear. Invert is not checked. Flood with the gradient.

3: Add a new raster layer.

Selections, load from alpha channel and select selection #1. Flood with gold or silver.

4: Effects 3d effects drop shadow with the following settings.

Leave selected.

5: Add a new raster layer. Selections modify contract by 2. Flood with the gradient, but change the angle to 135 and repeats to 0. Leave selected. Add the same drop shadow as in 4.

Select none.

6: New raster layer.

Selections load from alpha channel. Selection 2. Flood with your gold or silver. Apply the same drop shadow as in 4. Leave selected

7: Add a new raster layer.

Selections modify contract by 1.

Flood with the gradient, but change the angle to 45 and repeats to 3. Select none.

8: Add a new raster layer. Selections load from alpha channel. Select selection 3. Flood with gold or silver. Adjust sharpness sharpen. Select none.

Layers duplicate. Image flip.

Layers, merge visible.

9: Open up your tube. Copy, paste as a new layer towards the center of your canvas. Apply the following drop shadow.

10: Click on your text tool. Choose a nice font. Size will depend on the font you choose. Set the stroke to 1.  Stroke colour will be your silver or gold. The fill will be your gradient. Angle 135, repeats 0. Vector. Position how you like and convert to raster layer.

Type in your text.

11: Add the same drop shadow as in 9.

Repeat drop shadow with vertical and horizontal set at -2.

Merge all flatten.

Add your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 24, 2005. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

For Sweet Sierra. You know who you are.

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

Thank you to  Joanne for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2005