First time trying one of my Tutorials? Then please check my Terms of Use before you continue You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called Big Bloke BB Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Danny Lee License and Tubes now available at ArthurCrowesFactory One of my Templates which you can get on my Blog, we will be using SpawnsFSTemplate047
Filters: Eye Candy 6/Perspective Shadow
Ok let's begin Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original Delete the Credits and both the White BackgroundStrip layers
Activate the Left Photo Grey Inside layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Change your Foreground to a color from your Tube and Flood Fill the Selection with this color Paste your Tube as a New layer and position so it covers the Selection (any part of the Tube will do) Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard
Selections> Select None ... Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L) Layers> Merge> Merge Down ... Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... with the following settings Click on the Settings tab and select the Drop folder then select Blurry Click on the Basic tab and change the Center Offset Distance to 5 also change the Overall Opacity and Overall Blur to 100
Activate the Right Photo Grey Inside layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Change your Background to a second color from your Tube and Flood Fill the Selection with this color Paste your Tube as a New layer and position so it covers the Selection (any part of the Tube will do) Selections> Invert ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard
Selections> Select None ... Change this layer Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L) Layers> Merge> Merge Down Effects> Eye Candy 6> Perspective Shadow ... with the same settings as before Change your Foreground to Gradient ... with the following settings
Activate the Main Background layer and Flood Fill it with your Gradient Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings
Change your Foreground back to Color Activate the Left Photo Frame layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color ... Selections> Select None Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings
DELETE the Left Photo Frame layer Activate the Right Photo Frame layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Foreground color ... Selections> Select None Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the same settings as before
DELETE the Right Photo Frame layer Activate the Outer Black Strips layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down Change this layers Blend Mode to Soft Light or one suitable ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Paste your Tube as a New layer ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top position on the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with your Background color Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 2 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard Selections> Select None Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... this time Noise set to 60%
Add CopyRights and your Name and that's it all that's left is to save your Tag
Tutorial written on the 08/07/2012 ©David Hanslip |