1. Go to foreground material :
2. Open a transparent 1024 x 450 pixels 3. Flood fill with the gradient 4. Effects – Plugins – Photo Swizzle – photo copy; following settings:
5. Effects – Plugins – IC net Software –unlimited
2.0 6. Effects – Plugins – Simple – Centre Tile 7. Use your magic wand; following settings: 8. Click somewhere in the white area of your working area. (psp8 click in both parts)
For your background colour :choose a colour matching your tube. We chose colour #e0b846. 10. Now go to your foreground material
11. Flood fill the selection with the gradient 12. DON’T CHANGE THE SELECTION!!!!! 13. Adjust – blur – Gaussian blur – 50 14. Selections – load/save selection – load selection from Disk – find L&K_les_Sita – load.
15. Repeat: adjust – blur – Gaussian blur 50 16. SELECTIONS – SELECT NONE 17. Change your foreground colour to BLACK 18. Layers – new layer!!!!!! 19. Selection Tool (or S on your keyboard) Custom selection 21. Flood fill / use the colour BLACK 22. Selections – modify / contract 2 pixels 23. Hit DELETE on your keyboard 24. Repeat: Selections - modify – contract 10 pixels 25. Flood fill with BLACK. 26. Selections – select none 27. Effects – 3D Effects – Drop shadow; following settings:
28. Layers – duplicate 29. Effects – Image effects – Offset; following settings:
30. Repeat: layers – duplicate 32. Layer palette – HIDE RASTER LAYER 1!!!!! 33. Layers – merge – merge visible 34. Layers – duplicate 35. Image – mirror 36. Open your raster layer 1 again!!!!!
37. HIGHLIGHT YOUR TUBE 38. Resize your tube. Image – resize depends on the size of your tube 39. Edit - copy 40. Highlight your working area 1024 / 450 41. Edit – paste – paste as a new layer. 42. Use your move tool and place on a nice spot in the centre. 43. Layers – DUPLICATE 44. Image - MIRROR 45. Use your move tool again and move your second tube to the left.
46 Layer palette – put your blend mode on OVERLAY or SOFT LIGHT – this depends on your tube. 47. Layer – DUPLICATE. Move your 3rd tube to the right and change the blend mode if you want. 48. Layers – merge – merge all (flatten)
Love, Lisette and Karin.
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