Candle Romance

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Supplies

Filters: FM Tile Tools – Blend Emboss

Filters Unlimited 2 - Render – wood scaled fore/background

Xero - Mistifier & Porcelain

Mask --- Birry%20Masker%2024

4 tubes - 1 pattern

Save Mask in your mask folder & open Tubes & Pattern in PSP & Minimize

Set Up the Material Pallet

Foreground color light #c6beb3

Background color medium dark #c1b1a1

Set foreground gradient to linear – angle 45 repeats 2

NOTE: when doing a copy & paste of your tubes, make sure the tube layer is active by clicking on that layer only so that you paste only the tube & not the watermark or the background

Open a transparent image 604 x 450

Flood Fill with gradient

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian – 16.84

Effects – Plugins – Filter Unlimited 2

Render – wood scaled fore/background

Effects – Edge Effects – Enhance

Right click on layer pallet – New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with light (foreground) color

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask from Disk Birry%20Masker%2024

Fit to canvas – Source Luminance – Show all mask

On Layer Pallet – Right Click on Mask Layer – Merge Group

Keep Group Layer Active

Effects – Edge Effects – Enhance

Set the Blend Mode to Overlay Opacity at 32

Activate the Mariel_2006_100ctobre_smoke02t Tube

Edit - Copy & Paste as New Layer on the main image

Set the Blend Mode Normal - Opacity at 68

Activate Daisy Sepia tube – Edit - Copy & Paste as New Layer on the main image

With the Deform Tool

Drag the nodes until the daisy is placed as per the following sample

Set the layer Blend Mode to Luminance & Opacity of this daisy layer at 26

Activate the Ametista tube – Edit - Copy & Paste as New Layer on the main image.

Place in the lower right corner. Use the completed tag above for placement reference.

Set the layer Blend Mode Normal - Opacity at 50

Activate the DLB PURELOVE tube – Edit - Copy & Paste as New Layer on the main image

Image resize 90% bicubic All Layers UNCHECKED.

Resize 90% one more time.

Move the resized tube so that it almost touches the far right side of the main image with the bottom touching the half-way point. Use the completed tag above for placement reference.

Effects – FM Tile Tools – Blend Emboss

Set the blend mode of the PURELOVE tube layer to Luminance & Opacity at 62

Activate Quinta’s Woman 2 tube

Image – resize – 110% bicubic – aspect ratio CHECKED – all Layers CHECKED

Edit - Copy & Paste as New Layer on the main image placing it on the left side - make sure this tube is on the top layer

Effects – Plugins – FM Tile Tools – Blend Emboss same settings as previously used.

Effects – Plugins - Xero – Mistifier

128 128 255 255 255 255

Effects – Plugins – Xero – Porcelain

50 128 128 0 0 255

Go back to the Ametista tube – Activate ONLY the tube layer

Image – resize by pixels 98 x 94 bicubic - aspect ratio checked – all layers UNCHECKED

Edit – Copy & Paste as a New Layer

With the mover tool place the flower just above the woman’s ear.

Set Blend Mode to Luminance Legacy Opacity 68

Effects - Plugins- FM Tile Tool - Blend Emboss same settings as used previously

Right Click on Layer Pallet – Merge Visible

On your material pallet go to pattern & find the CR Pattern

Set the foreground of your material pallet to CR Pattern angel 0 scale 100

Image – Add Borders – 15 pixels light color

Select with Magic Wand & fill with the CR Pattern.

Selections Invert

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow set V&H 1 – Opacity 80 – Blur 5 – Color Black

Repeat Drop Shadow Changing only the V&H to minus 1

Selections - Modify Expand 10 - Selections Invert

Fill with light color

Select None

Image – Add Borders – 1 pixel dark color

Resize your image to fit your project at 90% bicubic increments each time to avoid loss of quality.

Please remember that tutorials are only guides so experiment & have fun.

Keep Smiling & Stay Creative

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