Tubes - Criss and Nadège, thank you

PLUGINS

Flaming Pear
*Kiwi*
Filters Unlimited2 - BKg Designer sf10 II
Graphics Plus
MuRa's Seamless
AAA Filters - OPTIONAL
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Choose two colors to your liking

Prepare Gradient for Foreground - RADIAL - Angle 35 - Repeats 2

* Center Point - H 35 - V 89

Prepare Gradient for Background - RADIAL - Angle 0 - Repeats 0

*Center Point - H 30 - V 100

Colors of this tutorial - Foreground-- # 43331e - Background-- #dbcebf
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1.- Layers - New Raster Layer - Transparent - 1000x700px

* Fill with gradient - FOREGROUND

2.- Layers - Add New Layer - fill with gradient - BACKGROUND

* Blend Mode - Multiply - Layers - Merge Visible
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3.- Plugin - Flaming Pear - Flexify - preset lifeisfull settings - with the material

4.- Layers - Duplicate - Image Flip Vertical - Image Mirror Horizontal

* Opacity to 50% - Layers - Merge Visible
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5.- Selections - Load Selection from Disk - lifeisfull_mj

6.- Layers - Add New Layer - Drop Shadow 0, 0, 60, 60, black

SELECT NONE

7.- Layers - Duplicate - Image Flip Vertical - Image Mirror Horizontal

* Layers - Merge Down

8.- Plugin - * Kiwi * - Zig-Zack - DEFAULT

* Adjust - Sharpness - Shapen More
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9.- Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Corner - Horizontal - Transition 100

Enable Layer Merged - Repeat the previous (item 9)
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10.- Effects - Texture Effects - Texture - with material

* Adjust - Sharpness - Shapen More
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11.- Selections - Load Selection from Disk - lifeisfull_1_mj

* Promote Selection to Layer - Arrange Layers - Bring to Top

* Take the Visibility of Raster 1 and Layer Merged

12.- Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius 30,00

SELECT NONE
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13.- Warp Brush Tool-- configuration below - see template

14.- Filters Unlimited2 - BKg Designer sf10 II - DIS Refractor 1

15.- Plugin - Graphics Plus - Vertical Mirror - DEFAULT

* Make visible layers (merged and raster1)

* Blend Mode - Overlay or other
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16.- Magic Wand tool - select transparency

* Selections - Modify - Expand 5 px

17.- Edit - Copy / Paste as new layer o misted

18.- Selections - Invert - DELETE - SELECT NONE - Layer Move Down

* Opacity to +/- 85% (if necessary)
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19.- Edit - Copy / Paste as new layer - deco_flexify

* Blend Mode - Overlay - Layers - Move Down 2 times

20.- Layers - Add New Layer - fill with light color

21.- Layers - New Mask Layer - from image - mask_marijo2

* Layers - Merge Group

22.- Plugin - MuRa's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha - DEFAULT

23. Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - DEFAULT - Transition 100

* Blend Mode - Screen
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LAYERS - Blend Mode and Opacity - Free Choice

Layers - Merge Visible

24.- Plugin - AAA Filters - Custom - Landscape (Optional)

25.- Edit - Copy / Paste the character tube - see model

* Drop Shadow - Personal Criterion
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BORDERS

26.- Image - Add Borders - 1px - light color

* Image - Add Borders - 2px - dark color

* Image - Add Borders - 1px - light color

27.- Selections - Select All - EDIT COPY

* Image - Add Borders - 40px - white

28.- Selections - Invert - Paste within the selection the copied image

* Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius 15,00

29.- Effects - Texture Effects - Texture (same setting)

* Sharpness - Sharpen More

30.- Selections - Invert - Drop Shadow 0, 0, 60, 30, black

SELECT NONE
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31.- Image - Add Borders - 1px - dark color

32.- Sign your work - Layers - Merge All Flatten

33.- Image - Resize - Width 1000px - Save in .jpg

I hope you appreciate it, thank you.
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Another model

This tutorial was created and published on January 1, 2019 by Maria José Prado. It is protected by copyright law and may not be copied, removed from its place, translated or used in mailing lists without the prior written consent of its author declined above.

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