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You will need

MuRa's Meister Cloud

My zip file HERE

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

Place the dmsiloveyou gradient in your gradients folder. Place the mask in your masks folder.

Please Note This tutorial was written with PSP 9. The newer versions may not have the Gamma correction setting. If not you can use an effect of your choice or just leave the roses as they are.

1: Set your foreground to #8e0d0d and then to the dmsiloveyou gradient. Angle 0, repeats 0, style linear. Invery is not checked. Set your background to black.

All settings will remain the same unless noted.

2: Open a new transparent canvas 675X515.

3: Effects, plugins, MuRa's Meister Cloud with the default settings.

4: Layers, new raster layer. Fill with black. Lowe the opacity to 30%. Layers, merge, merge down.

5: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the gradient.

6: Layers, load/Save mask. Load mask from disk. Locate the valentin18_sigrid mask and apply with the following settings.

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

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more.

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

Repeat drop shadow with 5 at vertical and horizontal.

8: Open the V~myVelvetRedRose2 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image, resize 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.

Effects, 3D effects Drop Shadow using both settings as in 7.

9: Open the v~firstbloomredrose tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Image mirror. Image resize 60% making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in main graphic and apply both drop shadows as in 7.

10: Open the rosenrot063 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Image resize 70% making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.

Adjust, brightness and contrast, gamma correction with the following settings. (See note at top if you do not have this setting in your version of PSP)

Apply both drop shadows as in 7.

11: Open the MD-rosecorner tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Image, mirror, image flip. Position as in the main graphic.

Adjust, brightness and contrast, Gamma correction with the following settings.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more. Apply both drop shadows as in 7.

12: Open one of the text tubes supplied or added your own text as required. Apply same drop shadows as in 7, but change the opacity to 100.

13: Using the lasso tool, feather and tolerance set at zero select the leaves on the roses from the red edge border made by the mask. Hit delete. (Make sure you are on each rose layer when you hit delete or the leaf won't be deleted.)

14: Apply any other text you may require and your watermark. Merge all, flatten.

15: Image add borders 2 black.

16: Image, add borders 25 foreground colour.

Selections, select all.

17: Layers new raster layer.

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

Selections. select none.

19: Merge all, flatten.

20: Image add borders 2 black.

21: Resize if you wish and save as a jpg. You are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on January 14, 2012 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 2012