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Place the selections in your usual folder
Open the tubes and duplicate them, close the originals
Depending on the colors you are going to use
feel free to change the mode and opacity of the layers
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1.
Open a transparent image of 900 x 550 pixels
In the style and texture palette
Put two colors of your tube
a light color in the foreground
and a dark color in the background
and prepared a Radial gradient with the following settings:
Fill with gradient
2.
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Simple ⇒ Diamonds
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Simple ⇒ Blintz
3.
Layer - duplicate
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Simple ⇒ 4 Way Average
Layer mode on Luminance or others (depending on the rendering of your colors)
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
Effects - Side effects - accentuate
4.
Layer - duplicate
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Tile & Mirror ⇒ Mirrored & Scaled
5.
Selections - Load / save a selection -
Load selection from disk
Select the selection "AMother_Sel01"
and click Load
Edit - cut
Selections - Deselect all
6.
Effects / Plugins / VanDerLee / UnPlugged-X ⇒ 45 ° Rectangle
7.
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Simple ⇒ 4 Way Average -
Layer mode to Multiply or others.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
8.
Layer - New raster layer
Selections - Load / save a selection -
Load selection from disk
Select the selection "AMother_Sel02"
and click Load
Fill with white color
Selection - modify - contract at 2 px
Fill with your dark color
Selection - Deselect all
9.
Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited 2.0 / Toadies ⇒ What are You?
10.
Selections - Load / save a selection -
Load selection from disk
Select the selection "AMother_Sel03"
and click Load
Effects / Plugins / AP [Lines] / Lines - SilverLining ⇒ Zag Across
Select - Deselect all
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (same settings)
11.
Seamless image / mosaic effect / effect
Layer Mode to Hard Light
12.
Copy - paste the deco tube 1
Layer mode reduce opacity to 50%
13.
Copy - paste the deco tube 2
Layer mode reduce opacity to 80%
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
Edit - copy
14.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked
Size of 2 pixels = Color White
Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked
Size of 10 pixels = Dark Color
With the Magic Wand tool
Select this border
Edit - paste into selection
Effects / Plugins / Carolaine & Sensibility ⇒ DS Lines
Selections - Deselect all
15.
Copy - Paste Your Tube
Resize if needed
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (to your liking)
Place on the left
16.
Copy - Paste Wordart
Place as on my model
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
17.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked
Size of 2 pixels = Color White
Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked
1 pixel size = Dark Color
Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked
Size of 10 pixels = Color White
18.
Add your signature
And Copyright if you use a designer tube
Add my copyright
Tutorial Created By © CreativeAttitude / www.creativeattitude.wixsite.com / Version From (YourName)
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
Here ! Your tag is finished
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