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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE
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To realize that tag, you'll need the plugins:
- Graphic plus,
- Mura's seamless
and the material zip down below :
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*It is forbidden to suppress watermarks on the material provided , to alter, mist or rename the tubes in order to respect the work of the tubers
- The tube of the woman is by Yonid
- The tube of the vase is by Sabine
You'll be able to get her tubes by joining in her sharing group CreaTubes here
- The mask with the leaves is by HJR
- The tube of the butterflies band is by Katussia
You'll be able to get her tubes by joining in Gina's sharing group here
The other elements have been found on the net
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Préparation
Duplicate the tubes and the masks. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now.
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Click here to print the tutorial
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You can use my arrow to follow your work
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1- Open a new transparent image of 800 by 650 pixels
2- Set your material palette with two colours out of your main tube
My choice : Foreground : colour 84ccec 
or a light colour of your choice
Background : white
Set your foreground with a linear gradient , angle 45, repeats 0, invert NOT checked
3- Flood fill your transparent layer with your white ( right click )
4- Add a new raster layer and flood fill it with your gradient
5- Effects / plugins / Graphic plus / Spot lite as below :
Lower the opacity of that layer to about 75
6- Activate the bottom layer that you have painted in white
Add a new raster layer
7- Flood fill that layer with a colour matching your tube to make a window pane
I have chosen the colour d0c3a3 
8- Layers / new mask layer / from image / choose masquewpe1/ check Source Luminance and INVERT
Adjust / sharpness / sharpen
Layers / merge group
9- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 50, 2, black
10- Add a new raster layer
Flood fill that layer with the colour 3f5a23 
or another colour of your choice
11- Layers / new mask layer / from image / choose masque Hjr-cornus / only check Source Luminance
Adjust / sharpness / sharpen
Layers / merge group
12- Open the tube Yonid11 or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place the tube at the right place
13- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 50, 20, black
14- Open the tube Graphsabine_design26, or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
I have resized Sabine's tube at 75%
15- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 1, 1, 50, 20, black
16- Open my tubes papillons_holidays_fairymist, copy each one of them as new layers on your tag
Place the butterflies to your liking
You may colorize them to match your tubes and colours !
You may add a drop shadow to the butterflies or even choose other elements of decoration
17- Open the tube texte_holidays_ fairymist, copy it and paste it as a new layer
You may choose to write your own text or colorize my text !
Place the text to your liking
18- Open the tube texte_just_ natural, or another text tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
19- Open the butterflies band Kts_frisesdecoratives4 from Katussia or another element of decoration, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place to your liking
20- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature
21- Make sure everything is in its place
Image / add some new symmetrical borders of 1 pixel in black or with a colour of your choice
22- Image / add some new symmetrical borders of 50 pixels in white or with a colour of your choice
23- Selections / select all
Selections / Modify / contract by 20 pixels
- Selections / Modify / select the borders of your selection as below :
24- Flood fill that selection with a colour which goes with your tube
I have chosen the colour 9bac46 
25- Keep the selection
Effects / plugins / Mura's seamless / Emboss at alpha default
Select none
26- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with the colour you have chosen on point 24
With your magic wand set as below , select your border
27- Repeat the effect Emboss at alpha done on point 25
Select none
28- Save your work as a jpeg file and resize if necessary
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That's it !! You've done it !!
If you 've enjoyed doing my tutorial, it would be nice to write a few words in my guest book ! If you 've had the slightest problem, please, send me a mail so I can see to the problem !
Tutorial translated on the 1st of August 2009
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