Beauty Within One

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
April 20, 2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube & photo by Rene Kunert
The tube is now FTU &
available here.


Supplies:
Tube of Choice
Photo of Choice
Scrap of choice
I am using one called
For Girls
by Schnegges Scraps
Blog.
Wordart by Word Art World
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Plugin: EyeCandy Gradient Glow 4000

Open a 600x600 new image.
Open up a photo, tube & scrap supplies
of choice.

Select a frame from the scrap.
Copy & paste as a new layer
onto your new image.

Click inside the frame with your
magic wand tool.
Selections modify expand by 8.

Now on your photo, resize if needed.
I resize 70%
Copy & paste as a new layer.
Selections invert & press delete.
Move the layer under the frame layer.
Select none.

Now duplicate the photo image once.
On the copy layer,
Effects - Art Media Effects -Brush Strokes
Default settings
Lower the opacity on this layer to about 80.

Take your main tube.
Resize 80%.
Paste as new layer on side of
your frame.
Add a drop shadow to the tube.
2,2,50,5 Black

Open an element of petals.
Paste twice along the bottom of the tag.
You want them to appear to underneath the frame..
like the frame is on the petals.

Open a tree element.
Paste along the bottom layer of the tag.
Arrange near the top of the tag.
Duplicate once & mirror.

Open a leaf branch.
Resize 80%.
Rotate free rotate right 45.
Now paste like you did the tree element.
Except we want the branch on the bottom part of the tag
& underneath the tree layer in layer palette.

Open a bottle element.
Resize 25%
Paste on one of the petals.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the bottle.

Open a bird element.
Resize 35%
Paste along the top of the frame as wanted.
Arrange so it appears to be sitting on the frame.

Open a mushroom element.
Resize 25%
Paste just under & beside the bottle layer.
Duplicate the mushroom once. & mirror.
Move this layer back beside the original mushroom layer.

Wordart of choice.
Resize 50% twice.
Paste as wanted on tag.
EyeCandy Gradient Glow 4000
Gradient glow setting fat
Glow width 3.00

Merge all the layers visible.
Resize 88%.
Add artist copyright information & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.