Celine

Gerrie's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here

Materials needed:

Filters:Eye Candy 5 Impact/Chrome
Filter:Tormentia
Filter:FM Tile Tools
Download here
  
Supplies download here
    

Save the selections in the PSP Selection folder

Save the "GDChrome1" file in the

Chrome folder of  Eye Candy 5 Impact
  
Ok, if you have finished saving everything

where it belongs, we can begin.

 
Open your tube

Reduce the size to 255 pixels high

Add a 1 pixel black border

(Image -- Add Border -- 1 pixel, color black, and apply)

Choose two colors from the image with

your color dropper.

I chose   #cb8dbb as dark color,

and  #e9d8d8 as the foreground colors.

Change the background to gradient,

with these settings:

  
Open a new transparent canvas of 500 x 400 pixels
  Fill with the gradient.
Effects --Filter Effects -- Tormentia -- Cris Cross,

with these settings:

  
Effects -- Filter Effects -- FM Tile Tools --

Blend Emboss, with the standard settings.

Layers -- New Raster layer

Selections -- Load/Save from Disk --

Load from Disk,

find the  "GD SEL5a" selection

and load.

Fill 5x with your dark color.

 Effects -- Texture Effects -- Tiles,

with these settings:

Selections -- Select None ( or press CTRL+D on your keyboard) 

 Effects -- Image Effects -- Seamless Tiling


  Effects -- Image Effects -- Page Curl,

with these settings:

Open your tube

Copy and paste as new layer onto the canvas

Position it on the left, next to your mosaic tiles, as seen

in the example below: 

  
Layers -- Duplicate
  Activate layer 3 in your layers palette to activate it

Effects -- Distortion Effect -- Wind:

Wind direction: From Right

Wind strength: 70

Duplicate this layer

Click on the top layer in your layers palette

to activate it.

Layers -- New Raster layer

Selections -- Load/Save -- Load Selection from disk.

Find the "GD SEL5b" selection and load.

Fill with your dark color.
 

Effects -- Filter Effects -- Eye Candy 5 Impact / Chrome 
In the Settings tab - find the  GD Chrome1  setting and

all the values will be filled in automatically.

Fill in the settings below in the different tabs:

 
 

Click on the dark color in your color palette to open it.

Memorize the two top values in the settings, which will be

the H ( hue) and S ( saturation) values.

Go to Adjust -- Hue and Saturation - Colorize

and fill these two values in the H and S spaces
 

Effects -- 3D Effects -- Drop Shadow,

with these settings:

Vertical : 1; Horizontal:1; Opacity: 50; Blur: 1.00; Color: black.
 Selections -- Select None  
 

Layers -- Duplicate

Image -- Flip

Image -- Mirror
 

Layers -- New raster layer

Selections -- Load/Save -- Load from Disk,

find the  "GD Sel5c" selection and load.

Fill with your gradient.

Repeat the drop shadow.

Selections -- Select None.

Adjust -- Sharpness -- Sharpen

Layers -- Duplicate

Image -- Flip

Image -- Mirror 
 

Layers -- New raster layer.

Activate your Brush tool

and find the  "A ravensbrush!poem!Samestorm"

Change the rotation to 90 and click once

with your light color next to your tube

Repeat the same drop shadow.
 

Layers -- New Raster layer

Type your name.

I used the  "Elisia"- font, size 64, my light color.
I repeated the same drop shadow.

Layers -- Merge -- Merge ALL.

Selections -- Select All

Selections -- Modify -- Contract by 1 pixel.

Selections -- Invert

Fill the border with black. 
And your tag is finished ;-)
 
  
©Gerrie© 13-08-2005

Translated on the 28th, August 2005

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