Thank you for putting a link to this tutorial, whenever you display your realization of that tag on a website, on a group or in a mail !
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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 :
- Alien skin Eye Candy 5 / Impact
- AP01 (Innovations) / Line silverlining
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 tubes I have used are from Kikirou
You'll be able to get her tubes by joining in her sharing group here
-The picture is by John Foxx
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Preparation
Duplicate your tubes. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now. Put the selection in your selections file
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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- Select all
Open the picture Sah1801 by John Foxx or a picture of your choice according to the theme you have chosen, copy it and paste it into the selection
Select none
3- Open the tube Kikirou372_paysage_palmiers_touaregs or a scenery tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
I have resized my tube at 60% ( Resize all the layers NOT checked ! )
Place that tube on the right hand side top corner of your tag
Drop shadow / 1, 1, 40, 1, black ( don't do it if your tube is misted )
4- Open the tube Kikirou 368_ touareg or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
I have resized that tube at 70% ( Resize all the layers NOT checked ! )
Place that tube at the bottom on the right hand side of the tag
Drop shadow / 1, 1, 40, 1, black ( don't do it if your tube is misted )
5- Open the tube Kikirou117-silhouette_srilanka or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
I have resized that tube at 50%
Place the tube at the right place
I have set the mode of that layer to Multiply and lowered the opacity at 52 (it all depends on your tube)
You may create your own shadow theater with a tube of your choice as follows :
Adjust / Brightness and contrast / - 255, 100 !!!!
6-Add a new raster layer
Selections / load selection / from disk / choose the selection mirage_fairymist / check Source Luminance and replace the selection
7- Flood fill that selection in white or with a light colour of your choice
Select none
Set the mode of that layer to Dodge and lower the opacity to about 13.
8- Open the tube titre, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place it as shown on my tag
If you prefer to write your own text, I have enclosed the font used in my zip !
9- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature
10- Make sure everything is at the right place
Layers / Merge all
Copy your tag ( we're going to use that copy later on )
Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels in white or a colour of your choice
11- Layers / Promote background layer ( your background layer will be converted to a raster layer )
24- Image / resize at 90% / resize all the layers NOT checked !
25- Effects / Alien skin Eye candy 5/ Impact / Perspective shadow / drop shadow blurry
as below :
14- Add a new raster layer
Layers / arrange / move down
Select all
15- Paste into the selection ( the copy of your tag done on point 10 )
Select none
16- Adjust / gaussien blur / 15
17- Effects / plugins / AP01 Innovations / Lines silverllining as below :
18- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels in white or a colour of your choice
19- Save your work as a jpeg file and resize your tag 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 15th of august 2009
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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE
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