Top Christmas time anglais

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To realize that top, you'll need the filters Alien skin Xenofex 2, Muraseamless

and the material zip here

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*It is forbidden to suppress watermarks on the material provided , to alter, mist or rename the tubes in order to respect the work of the tubers

- The elements of scrap I have used come from Mucki's site here

The tube of the balls is by Phibie

You may join in her sharing group here

The other elements have been found on the net

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Preparation

Duplicate your tubes and mask. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now.

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1- Open a new transparente image of 1024 by 500 pixels

2- Flood fill that layer with a light colour of your choice : 91a0c9 for me

3- Effects / plugins / Alien skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation as below :

4- Open the frame Mucki's scrapbrown, copy it and paste it as a new layer on your top

5- Image / resize at 80 %. Adjust / sharpness / sharpen

6- Effects / image effects / offset / horiz : 0, vertic : 20, check custom and transparent

7- Adjust / hue and saturation / colorize / 159, 87

8- With you magic wand, select the inside of that oval frame

9- Select / modify / expand by 5 pixels

10- Add a new raster layer

Flood fill that selection with the same colour as on step 2 ( You are on your new raster layer !)

11- Open the tube 1944 Christmas misted ..., copy it and paste it into the selection

Select none !

12- Layers / arrange / move down

13- Layers / merge all

14- Open the tube bande Mucki's scrap ..., copy it and paste it as a new layer on your top

Place that bande on the left hand side of your top as on my top

15- Adjust / Hue and saturation / colorize / 159, 87

Set the mode of that layer to soft light

Effects / edges effects / enhance

16- Layers / duplicate

Image / mirror

17- Open the tube noeud Muck's scrap, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Image / resize at 50 %. Adjust / sharpness / sharpen

Adjust / Hue and saturation / colorize / 159, 87

18- Effects / plugins / Mura's seamless / Emboss at alpha / default

Place the tube as on my top

19- Open the tube lutin, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Place it on the right of your oval frame as on my top

20- Effects /3d effets / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 20, black

21- Open the Phtube kerstbowl001, copy the bottom layer of that tube

Paste as a new layer and resize at 50 %; Adjust / sharpen

22- Copy, this time the ball which is on the top layer of the tube, copy it and paste it as a new layer

Resize at 50 %

Place the two balls as on my top

23- Open the tube étoile, copy it and paste it as a new layer e

Resize at 75 %; Adjust / sharpen

Adjust / Hue and saturation / colorize / 159, 87

Place the tube as on my top

24- Layers / merge down ( twice; the two balls and the star will, then, be on the same layer )

25- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 20, black

26- Add a new raster layer and activate your text tool set as below ; write your message ( CHRISTMAS TIME ) ( put the white in your foreground and close your background)

27- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 5, colour dark blue 334063

28- Image /free rotation / left / 90 ° (don't tick any of the boxes below )

Place your text above the band on the left hand side of your top

29- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature

30- Merge all

31- Layers / new mask layer / from image / choose Mask 041 Brooke Kroeger. jpeg / check Source luminance only

Merge group

32- Add a new raster layer

Layers / arrange / move down

33- Image / canvas size as below :

34- Activate the top layer

Selections / select all

Selections / float

Selections / modify / expand by 10 pixels

35- Activate now the transparent layer just below ( Keep selection )

Flood fill that selection with the colour dbe0ed or a colour of your choice

Select none

36- Merge visibles

37- Add a new raster layer

Layers / arrange / move down

38- Flood fill that new layer with a darker colour 333f63

39- Go back to your top layer with your eraser tool, size between 10 and 5, rub off the small stain you will notice on bottom right hand side of your top

40- Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / 4, 4, 50, 5, black

41- Merge all

Save your work as a jpeg file and resize if necessary

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That's it !! You've done it !!

If you 've enjoyed doing my tutorial, it would be nice to write a few words in my guest book ! If you 've had the slightest problem, please, send me a mail here so I can see to the problem !

Tutorial translated on the 1st of december 2009

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Thank you Gerda for that nice version