You will need

My zip file HERE

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

1: Place the dmsbliss gradient in your gradients folder and the dms3dshapes in your masks folder.

Set your foreground to the dmsbliss gradient with the following settings. Angle 45,, repeats 15, style radial. Invert is checked.

Set your background to your background to #eee0dd.

Settings will remain the same unless noted.

2: Open the dmsblissbg. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.

Layers duplicate. Image mirror.

3: Making sure the top layer is highlighted, layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find the dms3dshapes and apply with the following settings.

Right click on the mask layer. Merge, merge group.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen. #b08578.

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

Repeat drop shadow changing the vertical and horizontal to - (minus) 3.

Lower the opacity to 70%.

4: Open the FLOWER tube. shift D to duplicate and close the original. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Move to the left side as in the main graphic.

Change the blend mode to overlay.

Image, duplicate, image mirror.

Right click on the top layer. Merge, merge down.

Click on the background layer to make it active. Selections, select all. Image, crop to selection.

Click on the top layer to make it active.

5: Open the butterfliesandbirds tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Position at the top as in the main graphic. Using the deform tool pull both sides out to the edge of the graphic.

Click on any tool to deactivate the deform too.

Adjust, hue and saturation, colorize with the following settings.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen. Leave the opacity at 78% as it is already preset.,

6: Open the 1Patries_Carole_Lombard-lisascan-15-11-08 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.

Adjust, hue and saturation, colorize.

Apply both drop shadows as in 3.

7: Image add borders 2 symmetric background colour.

8: Image add borders 20 symmetric white.

Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Selections, select none.

9: Layers new raster layer. Selections, select all.

10: Open the dmsblissframe. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste into selection.

Selections, select none.

11: Repeat step 7.

12: Add any text you may require and add your watermark. Resize as you wish. Save as a jpg. You are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 19, 2011 Copyright of the graphics used always remain with the original artist.

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 Gail for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2011