Smoldering Beauty
Supplies needed
Tube of choiceFont Of Choice (I used Waterlilly)
DSB Flux - Linear Transmission
Xero - Mistifier
Flowers by Rainbow Coffi (Supplied)
Frame made by me, not to be shared or used in any tutorials without my permission.
Supplies - here
The fall leaves were shared with me, if these are yours, please contact me and I will either give you credit, or remove.
I used the beautiful art of Keith Garvey. You must purchase a licence to use his art which can be done here
Lets begin!
1. Open a new canvas 600x600 and fill white.
2. Copy and paste the red slats as a new layer. Effects, DSB Flux - Linear transmission
Slice size - 3 Offset - 3 Blend - 50 Horizontal checked.
3. Copy and paste the black slats as a new layer, repeat the Linear Transmission effect, but this time check the vertical box. Layers, merge down. Duplicate this layer, image, rotate, free rotate by 90 degrees in any direction. Layers, merge down and resize by 90%.
4. Copy and paste my frame as a new layer. Grab your preset shape tool set to circle, inner black, outer null, draw out a circle to sit inside the frame, move this layer down and convert to raster. Grab your magic wand and click inside the circle, selections invert, copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer and move to one side of the circle, hit delete on your keyboard, selections, select none. Lower the opacity to around 30%. Effects, Xero - Mistifier, Haziness, Strength and red mist all 255, green and blue mist both set to zero. Duplicate, image, mirror.
5. Make the frame layer active, copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, I resized mine by 90%. Add a drop shadow of choice. Copy and paste the fall leaves as a new layer and resize by 70%. Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorise - Hue and Saturation both - 0
Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness - minus 80 Contrast - minus 5
6. Add a drop shadow of choice, place near the bottom right, duplicate, image mirror. Copy and paste the heart flowers as a new layer, using your freehand selection tool, select only the flowers from this layer, and colorise them to match your tube, keep selected. Selections, invert, adjust - hue and saturation both set to 0. I resized the heart flowers by 80%.
7. Add your copyright information, watermark and name, save as a jpeg, and your all done.
Thanks for trying my tutorial
This tutorial was written by me, weescotslass on 3rd November 2007, any resemblance to any other tutorial is completely coincidental.
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