You will need

My zip file HERE

The lady tube came from Maxyran HERE

Please respect those who made the contents and do not change file names.

1: Place your gradient in the gradients folder and the mask in your masks folder. Set your foreground to the KJC_Love angel 0, repeats 1, style linear. Invert is not checked.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 625X500. Fill with the gradient.

3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the gradient same settings.

4: Layer, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Locate the Four Triangles mask and apply with the following settings.

Layers merge. merge group.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more.

5: Open the dmswhiteflowers tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Change the blend mode to soft light.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

6: Open the cys_019 tube. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

Adjust hue and saturation, colorize. Hue 235, saturation 255.

Image duplicate, image mirror.

7: Open the dmsdragonflypin tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize 80% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.

Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy and apply the following drop shadow.

8: Open the Maxyran_01_07_09 Women36. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Image mirror.

Image resize 80% making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Apply the same drop shadow as in 6.

Repeat the drop shadow, but change the vertical and horizontal to -3.

9: Add your watermark and any text you may require.

10: Image add borders 15 #770615.

11: Open the dmsfuchsiaframe. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Merge all, flatten.

NOTE: If you find the decoration on the frame covers your tubes got to edit, undo, paste as a new layer. Edit undo add borders. Reposition your tubes then re-add the borders and the frame until you are happy with the end result.

12: Resize just a little if you wish and save as a jpg and you are all done.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on January 11, 2010

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 Lynn and Caz for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2010.