Misty Dreams


Gerrie's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here

Download the supplies here
The tubes and other images
were made by Nadia and Susan.



FILTERS NEEDED:
FM Tile Tools
Bordermania
Graphics Plus


Open the Kinza - image as
well as an image of your own choice.
Choose a light and dark color
for the fore- and background.
Colors  #e3bbcc (light) and #66336a (dark)
were used in the tag example.
Change to gradient with these settings:


Open the dark color palette
and memorize the Hue and Saturation values.
Go to Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorise
and fill these values into the pop-up screen.
Effects --> Filter FM tile Tools - Blend Emboss
with these settings:


Duplicate the image
and minimize for now.

Activate your tube again
If you use a jpg you can apply the 20-20 Mask first.
Merge group in the Layers palette.

Image - Resize: 230 pixels high.

Activate the Kinza image again.
Add a new raster layer.
Selections - Load/Save - Load Selection from Disk.
Find the  "GD sel60" - selection and load.

Go to the image that you have made.
Edit - Copy.
Edit - Paste into Selection.

Deselect.
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 75%
in your Layers palette.
Layers - Merge - Merge All.

Activate the duplicated Kinza image.
Edit - Copy.

Open a new transparent canvas, size 400 x 400 pixels.
Fill with the dark color.

Effects - Filter Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow: standard.
Edit - Paste as new layer.
This must be the Kinza image.
Reduce the opacity of the layer to 26%
in the Layers palette.
Merge Layers.

Activate the image with your tube on.
Use the Crop Tool to crop it to 400x400 pixels
as seen below.


You can see the measurement in the bottom toolbar.

Edit - Copy.
Edit - Paste as new layer onto the merged image.

Image - Resize: 80% / Bicubic / 'Resize All Layers' - unchecked!


Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
with these settings: 1/ 1/ 35 / 1 / color black.

Repeat with -1 / -1 / 35 / 1 color black.

Layers - Duplicate.
Image - Resize 90%.


Duplicate the layer again.
Resize 90% again.

Layers - New Raster Layer.
Selections - Load/Save - Load Selection From Disk.
Find the 'GD sel 63'-selection and load.
Fill with the gradient.

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance.
Deselect.

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind: 100 to the left.

Click on the bottom layer in the Layers palette
to activate it.
Add a new raster layer.

Load the selection 'susan24'.
Fill 3x with your gradient.
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance.
Deselect.
Image - Mirror.

Activate the top layer in the Layers palette.
Add a new raster layer.

Activate the Brush Tool.
Find the "!!TBEEDREAM"- brush.
Set the foreground on the light color.
Apply the brush 1x on the canvas
as seen below.




Set the layer opacity on 70% in the Layers palette.

Merge all layers.

Effects - Filter Effects - Bordermania - Frame 2
Top 2 slidebars on 4.
Deselect.
Selections - Select All.
Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 pixel.
Selections - Invert.
Fill with the dark color.

And that's it! :-)
Have fun!


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Translated 20th May 2007