You will need
My zip file HERE
The woman tube came from Paola HERE
1: Open the dmsspringbeauty canvas from the zip file. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.
2: Open the woman114_tube_paola from the zip or a woman tube of your choice. Choose a darker colour for your foreground and a lighter one for your background.
Minimize the tube to use again later.
Change the foreground to the foreground/background gradient. Set the angel at 45 the repeats to 1 and the style to linear. Invert is not checked. Set the background to a gold pattern of your choice. Settings will remain the same unless stated.
3: Fill the canvas with the gradient.
4: Layers new raster layer.
Selections, load/save selection, load selection from alpha channel. Load selection 1.
Fill the selection with gold.
Leave selected.
5: Layers, new raster layer.
Selections, modify, contract by 1.
Fill with the gradient changing the angle to 133.
Layers, merge. merge down.
Leave selected.
6: Layers new raster layer.
Open the Luiza Gelts w bouquet_colorel tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste into selection.
Layers, merge. merge down.
Select none.
7: Effects, 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.
Repeat drop shadow changing the vertical and horizontal to -5.
8: Layers new raster layer.
Selections, load/save selection, load selection from alpha channel. Load selection 2.
Fill the selection with gold.
Leave selected.
Layers, new raster layer.
Selections, modify, contract by 1.
Fill with the gradient.
Select none.
Layers, merge. merge down.
9: Apply both drop shadows as in 6.
10: Layers new raster layer.
Selections, load/save selection, load selection from alpha channel. Load selection 3.
Fill the selection with gold.
Leave selected.
Layers, new raster layer.
Selections, modify, contract by 1.
Fill with the gradient.
Layers, merge. merge down.
Select none.
11: Layers new raster layer.
Selections, load/save selection, load selection from alpha channel. Load selection 3.
Fill the selection with gold. Fill with the gold once more.
Select none.
12: Effects, 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.
13: Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.
14: Maximize the woman114_tube_paola or whichever woman tube you selected. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.
Image resize 83% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat resize twice more.
Adjust sharpness sharpen.
Position as in the main graphic.
15: Apply both drop shadows as in 6.
16: Add any text you may require and your watermark.
When you are happy how everything is positioned, merge all, flatten.
17: Image add borders 3 black. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the gold pattern.
Select none.
You are all done.
This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on March 26, 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 Cody for testing this tutorial.
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