You will need

My zip file HERE

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

1: Place the gradient in your gradients folder. Place the mask in your masks folder.

Set your foreground to the dmsfantasy gradient, angle 0, repeats 1 style linear. Invert is not checked.

Set your background to #cad5a1.

Settings will remain the same unless noted.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 700X525 and fill with the gradient.

3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the background colour.

4: Layers, load/save mask. Load mask from disk. Find the zuzzanna_mask29 and apply with the following settings.

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

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

Repeat drop shadow with - (minus) 2 at vertical and horizontal.

5: With the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero select the rectangle inside the mask. Selections, modify, expand by 2.

Layers new raster layer.

6: Open the cloudtunnel tube. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.

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

Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste into selection. Selections, select none.

Set the blend mode to darken. Effects, edge effects, enhance more. Lower the opacity to 70%.

7: Open the Pastel Pegasus & Baby-sm~moon tube.

 Shift D to duplicate. Close the original. Right click on the top layer. Delete. This will leave you with just the tube layer.

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

Now click on your gradient and change the settings too angle 45. repeats 9, style linear. Invert is not checked.

Using the change to target tool cover the whole tube with the gradient.

Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, resize 60% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked.

Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow. Apply both drop shadows as in 4.

8: Open the Image24GuardianAngel_LR 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 mirror. Image resize 65& bicubic making sure all layers is not checked. adjust, sharpness, sharpen. Position as in the main graphic. Apply both drop shadows as in 4 but change the opacity to 100 and the blur to 5.

9: Open the AnneStokesForestUnicornMrsHomerTube. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.

Right click on the top layer. Delete. This will leave you with just the tube layer, and the top copyright layer.

Lower the opacity to 35% on the copyright layer.

Now click on the bottom layer which should be your tube.

Adjust, hue and saturation, colorize with the same settings as in 6.

Now using the change to target tool colour the unicorn as in 7.

This time we are going to add the drop shadows before we add the unicorn to our graphic. Apply both drop shadows as in 8.

Edit, copy merged. Back to the working graphic. Paste as a new layer. Image, resize 80% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.

10: Reposition the mother and baby unicorn as in the main graphic.

11: When you are happy where everything is. merge all. Flatten.

12: Image add borders 53 background colour.

Selections select all.

13: Layers new raster layer.

Open the dmsfantasyframe. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste into selection.

Selections select none. Merge all, flatten.

14: Image add borders 2 background colour. Add any text you may require and your watermark. Resize as you wish and save as a jpg. You are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on October 13, 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