Noëlla's

Looking

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Materials needed:

Filter: Filter Factory gallery A, Pool Shadow: Here

An image of your choice, or use No's: Here

Thanks to all our wonderful tubers

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Ok. we're ready to begin.

Open your image and choose a light- and dark color from it

for the foreground and background.

Open a new canvas, size 1024x450

Fill with the light color from your image.

Go to Layers -->New Raster Layer.

Activate your Selection Tool

In the Tools Palette, choose the

Custom Selection option, with these settings:

Fill this selection with your dark color.

Go to Effects--> 3D Effects --> Inner Bevel,

with these settings:

Deselect ( Ctrl+D)

Go back to your Custom Selections and change the settings to:

Activate your tube and Edit-->Copy it.

Go back to your canvas and Edit-->Paste Into Selection

Got to Adjust--> Blur--> Gaussian Blur: Radius 8

Deselect ( Ctrl+D)

Go to Effects-->Image Effects--> Offset,

with these settings:

Go to Effects-->Reflection Effects-->Feedback,

with these settings:

Go to your Layers Palette and duplicate this layer.

Go to Image--> Flip.

X-out raster layer 1 (make it invisible) on your Laters Palette and

merge all the other layers.

Go to Effects-->3D Effects--> Inner Bevel,

and apply the same settings as before.

Go to your Layers Palette and

make the bottom layer visible again.

While in your Layers Palette, activate

the merged layer ( highlight in blue)

Go to Effects-->Filter Effects-->

Filter Factory A: Pool Shadow, with

these (standard) settings:

Activate your tube again.

Edit/ Copy

Edit/Paste onto your canvas.

Position it where you like it.

Drag the tube layer below the merged layer.

Go to your Layers Palette and duplicate this tube layer.

Active the Eraser tool, with these settings:

With the merged layer active(highlighted in blue)

carefully erase parts of the bars. You can always undo;-)

Merge all layers and apply a new raster layer.

Add your name or watermark and you're done!

Ziezo, enjoy! :-)