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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