Balance
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Material
Tubes by jacotte
1 alpha layer (selections)
Filters Used
FM Tile Tools/Collage Linear
Toadies/What are You?
Unlimited 2/Tiles and Mirror/Mirror and scaled
Alien Skin Impact/Extrude
AP Innovations/Line Silverlining/Line option Vertical
Mura’s Meister/Perspective tiling
Unlimited 2/BKG Kaleidoscope/Kaleidoscope Persian
Mehdi/Sorting Tile
LenK/Palmyre
Sapphire 03/Sapphire 02388
AAA Frames/Foto Frame
Colors
foreground color -> color 1 -> #f1e4d3 (light)
background color -> background color -> #a9604d (dark)
set both colors in the materials palette
use the paint brush to follow the steps
left click to grab it
Realization
Step 1
activate the alpha layer
window/duplicate / close the original, and work with the copy
Step 2
fill the layer with a linear gradient 45 / 0 / uncheck “invert”
Step 3
effects/plugins/FM Tile Tools/Collage Linear
Step 4
effects/edge effects/enhance
Step 5
effects/plugins/Toadies/What Are You?/ X 20 / Y 20
Step 6
effects/plugins/Unlimited 2/Tile & Mirror/Mirrored and Scaled
Step 7
selections/load selection #1 from alpha channel
selections/promote selection to layer
Step 8
selections/modify/contract/2 pixels
effects/plugins/AP Innovations/Lines Silverlining/Line Options Vertical
10/-1/10/255/255/255
Step 9
effects/plugins/Alien Skin Impact/Extrude/backgroundcolor
selections/select none
Step 10
layers/duplicate - image/mirror
layers/merge/merge down
Step 11
effects/3D effects/drop shadow
3 / 3 / 70 / 25 / black
-3 / -3 / 70 / 25 / black
Step 12
effects/distortion effects/punch
Step 13
effects/image effects/offset/ 0 / -132
Step 14
in the layers palette, activate the background layer (alpha layer)
layers/duplicate
Step 15
effects/plugins/Mura’s Meister/Perspective Tiling
80 / 0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 0 / 100 / 255
effects/3De ffects/drop shadow/ 0 / 0 / 75 / 35 / black
Step 16
in the layers palette, activate the background layer (alpha layer)
effects/plugins/BKG Kaleidoscope/Kaleidoscope Persian/ 255 / 255
effects/edge effects/enhance
Step 17
in the layers palette, the background layer is active (bottom layer)
effects/image effects/seamless tiling
Step 18
effects/plugins/Mehdi/Sorting Tiles
Block Range 300 / 500 - Crossed
Step 19
layers/duplicate - image/mirror
in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “overlay” (or other) and the opacityu on 40%
layers/merge/merge down
Step 20
in the layers palette, the alpha layer is active (bottom layer)
selections/load selection #2 from alpha channel
selections/promote selection to layer
Step 21
effects/plugins/LenK’s Palmyre/ 255 / 7
selections/select none
set the blend mode of the layer on “overlay” (or other)
Step 22
layers/duplicate - image/mirror
layers/merge/merge down
Step 23
in the layers palette, activate the bottom layer
selections/load selection #3 from alpha channel
selections/promote selection to layer
effects/Plugins/Sapphire 03/Sapphire plugin 0238
selections/select none
set the blend mode of the layer on “normal” and the opacity on 40%
Step 24
layers/duplicate - image/mirror
layers/merge/merge down
Step 25
in the layers palette, activate the bottom layer
selections/load selection #4 from alpha channel
selections/promote selection to layer
Step 26
activate the tube of the roses
edit/copy - back to you work - edit/paste as new layer
move it properly into the selection
Step 27
selections/invert, and press the Delete key of your keyboard
Step 28
selections/invert
in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “luminance (legacy)”
layers/merge/merge down
Step 29
selections/modify/select selection borders/inside/5
Step 30
layers/new raster layer
fill with a linear gradient / 45 / 5 / uncheck “invert”
effects/3D effects/inner bevel
selections/select none
Step 31
layers/merge/merge down
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/ 0 / 0 / 75 / 35 / black
Step 32
layers/merge/merge all (flatten)
Step 33
image/add borders/check “symmetric/2 pixels/background color
Step 34
selections/select all
effects/plugins/AAA Frames/Foto Frame 10 / 0 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 100
Step 35
image/add borders/check “symmetric”/50 pixels/foreground color
selections/invert
fill this border with the linear gradient 45 / 5
adjust/blur/gaussian blur/35
Step 36
effects/texture effects/fine leather
Step 37
selections/invert
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/ 0 / 0 / 100 / 50 / black
Step 38
selections/invert
effects/plugins/AAA Frame/Foto Frame as before
selections/select none
Step 39
image/add borders/2 pixels/color 2
add borders/1 pixel/black
Step 40
activate the tube “decoration 1” (colorize if necessary according to the colors of you tubes)
edit/copy - back to your work - edit/paste as new layer
Step 41
effects/image effects/offset -380 / 35
layers/duplicate - image/mirror
Step 42
activate the tube of the character
edit/copy - back to your work -edit/paste as new layer
move it as shown on the final result
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/ 5 / 5 / 30 / 15 / black
Step 43
activate the tube “decoration 2” (colorize if necessary according to the colors of you tubes)
edit/copy - back to your work -edit/paste as new layer
move it as shown on the final result
Step 44
activate the tube “decoration 3”
edit/copy - back to your work -edit/paste as new layer
effects/image effects/offset -1 / 185
Step 45
layers/duplicate - image/flip
image/resize/ 85 % (uncheck “resize all layers”)
effects/image effects/offset 1 / -8
Step 46
in the layers palette, activate the tube of the character
layers/arrange/bring to top
Step 47
layers/merge all (flatten)
image/resize/900 pixels width
adjust/sharpness/unsharp mask
Step 48
apply your signature, and save as … type jpeg
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