Quick Blend
Place the mask in your
Masks Folder and your frame in your Picture Frames folder
Supplies in Zip folder
ABG6 Background, Edge%20oval Mask,
Oval Frame
Supplies Here
Open a Background or use mine and
minimise for now
Open a Tube of your choice
Effects / Artistic Effects / Aged
Newspaper / Amount to Age 100 / Ok
Unminimise your background
(I resized
my background to 600 x500)
you might have to resize yours unless you use mine
Copy and Paste your tube onto your
background as a new layer
Tools / Deform tool resize and
position then click pan
Layers Palette / Change the Blend
Mode to Hard Light
Repeat the Brightness if you want to
Layers / Merge / Merge visible
Layers / Load /Save Mask / Load Mask
from Disk
Mask Edge%20ovalMask / Source
Luminance Checked / Fit to Canvas checked / Hide all
Mask checked / Load
Layers Merge / Merge Group
Activate your top layer and repeat
the mask settings
Layers Palette add a New Layer drag
to the Bottom
Materials Palette choose black
Tools / flood fill tool / Match mode
RGB / Tolerance 20 / Sample merged checked / Blend Mode
normal / Opacity 100
Flood Fill your activated layer with
your black
Click Pan
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Image / Picture Frame / I used oval /
frame canvas checked / frame outside of the image checked
/ ok
Layers palette activate the Picture
frame
Selections / Select All
Selections / Float and defloat
Activate your bottom layer and press
delete on your keyboard
Selections / Select none
Delete the picture frame layer
Add a new layer drag to the bottom
and flood fill with black
Click Pan
Layers / Merge / Merge all Flatten
Material Palette choose color and
white in both boxes
Tools / text tool big A / settings /
create as vector / direction first / font I used Ravie / size any
/ Stroke width 0
Write your name in the text box and
click apply
Resize using the nodes
Layers / palette right click on
vector and convert to raster layer
Click Pan
Selections / select all
Float / Defloat
Press Delete on the keyboard
You should now see ants
Materials palette choose color using
the dropper choose a color from your background
Right click and copy the Html for
your color
Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow /
Settings V1 / H -1 / Op 100 / Blur 8 / click in the color
box and paste your color code into
the html box click ok
add your copyright and watermark
finish of how you like and save
This Tutorial was created and installed by ©Mally on Sunday 13 May 2012
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