Romantic Rendezvous


Mask and Belts Here   Pattern Here 
Mask goes into your Mask folder / Belts go into your Tube folder

Cow Hide Wood pattern goes into your Pattern folder.


Open a 500 x 500 transparent image.

Material palette / pattern / cow hide wood / angle 39 / scale 100 / ok.

Tools / flood fill tool.

Fill the layer with the pattern.

Click pan.

Layers / load,save mask / load mask from disk / mask 70-kris / fit to canvas checked / source

luminance checked / invert transparency checked / hide all mask checked / load.


Layers / merge group.

Effects / texture effects / fine leather / color #dcdcdc / angle 30 / blur 40 / transparency 250 /

number of furrows 40 / length of furrows 4 / ok.


Layers palette add a new layer send to bottom and activate.

Material palette / color / #d49142 / ok.

Tools / flood fill tool.

Flood fill the bottom layer with your colour.

Click pan.


Effects / texture effects / weave / gap size 1 / width 6 / opacity 25 / weave and gap color black /

fill gaps checked

Activate the top layer the one with leather effect.


Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / v1 / h1 / op 100 / b 50 / white / ok.

Layers / merge visible.

Open one of the belt tubes.

Copy and paste as a new layer on to your image.

( you will notice it's too big ).

Image / resize / 60 percent / resize all layers unchecked / ok


Tools / deform tool.

Position the belt at the top of you're image and click pan.

Image / mirror.

Adjust / sharpness / sharpen.

Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / v-1 / h 0 / op 100 / b 0 / white / ok.


You have 2 choices now you can either go to layer palette duplicate the belt then go to image 

and flip

Or

You can copy the other belt tube which came together copy and paste on to your layer as a new 

image

Image / Resize / 60 percent / resize all layers unchecked

percent and use the deform tool to position at the bottom then click pan.

The choice is yours.

Either way you still want to add this drop shadow to the second belt.

Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / v-1 / h 0 / op 100 / b 0 / white / ok


Layers / merge visible.

Now close the belt tubes.

Open a tube of your choice.

Copy your paste the tube on to your image as a new layer,

deform tool and resize it then click pan.

Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow / v-1 / h-1 / op 50 / b 8 / black / ok.

Layers / merge visible.

Image / resize / 400 x 400 pixels / resize all layers checked.

Adjust / sharpness / sharpen more.

Add the copyright and you're watermark and merge visible.

Tools / text tool / vector / direction first / font any / size any / stroke width 2

Material palette / foreground (top) gold gradient any settings / background (bottom) A dark 

brown from your image.

Write your name and use the nodes to position and make slightly smaller.

Layer palette / right click on vector and convert vector to raster layer.

Add you're own drop shadow.

Layers / merge all flattern and save

Finish of how you like by adding sparkles , blings , anything you like and then save.


This Tutorial was created by ©Mally on Thursday 21 September 2006

And Redone on Tuesday 14 October 2008

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