Shades (2012)

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You will need:

Font of your choice - I used one called BigFlirt

Tube & Close Up of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Danny Lee

License and Tubes now available at ArthurCrowesFactory

Filters:

Two Moon/Cut Glass

Eye Candy 6:Textures/Swirl

Ok let's begin

Open my Template ... Window> Duplicate ... Close Original ... Delete the Credits layer

Change your Foreground to a color from your Tube

Activate the Main Background layer and Flood Fill it with your Foreground color

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise ... with the following settings

Change your Background to a second color from your Tube

Activate the Grey Wavey layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color

Effects> Two Moon> Cut Glass ... with the following settings

Selections> Select None ... Delete the Grey Wavey layer ... Change your Background to a third color from your Tube

Activate the Black Wavey layer ... Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill the Selection with your Background color

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Swirl ... with the following settings

Selections> Select None ... Delete the Black Wavey layer

Activate the Main Background layer ... Paste your Close Up as a New Layer and move into a suitable position

(be sure you are happy with the position as after the next steps it can not be moved without messing up the tag)

Change this layers Blend Mode to Luminance or Luminance(L)

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Float ... Selections> Defloat

Activate the Dots layer ... Selections> Promote Selection to Layer ... Activate the Dots layer again

Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Selections> Select None ... Activate the Promoted Selection layer

Change this layers Blend Mode to Overlay (or one suitable)

Activate the Top layer

Paste your Tube as a New Layer, position on the left side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow

Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of your choice

Effects> Eye Candy 6: Textures> Swirl ... same settings as earlier but change the color to

the color you just Flood Filled this layer

Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract by 3 ... Hit DELETE on your keyboard

Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 0, 0, 100, 3, Black

Add Copyrights and your done all that's left is to save your Tag