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For this tutorial you
will need: Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop Filters and materials needed FM Tile Tools (many of the FM filters continue to work after trial period, Blend Emboss is one of them) A tube, psd file, or object. Caro mask I am assuming you know the basics of Photoshop/Photoshop Elements and where the tools can be located. |
| 1. New canvas 400X400, white; find a tube you like and pick a color from it for the tile Open the caro mask file, duplicate it, close the original and resize the duplicate to 400X400, then copy it. |
| 2. Flood fill with gradient or pattern (Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient), check group with previous layer (in PSE, PS doesn't have this option). Mode Normal, opacity 100%. In next window pick your gradient, Style: Linear, angle 45, scale 100%, align with layer checked.   |
3. Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur>85 pixels  If you use a light color or one with a gradient close together in color like this, you won't notice much difference, but in using a pattern or a gradient with more difference between the colors, you will really see the difference. Merge all (flatten image). |
| 4. Go to Select>All. Edit>Copy. Go to File>New. A new window will open with the right dimensions in it, select transparent, ok. Go to Edit>Paste to paste your gradient canvas onto the transparent canvas. |
| 5. Apply Mask Open the Caro03 mask, duplicate it and close original, resize it to 400X400. Control-A to select all, Control-C to copy. Go to gradient canvas, Control-V to paste mask over top, Layer>New Adjustment Layer>invert, check the box group with previous layer (not necessary in PS).  Now you will see only the mask, you can't see the graphic. If your mask happens to be opposite, as I have seen some, with the black part covering what you want to see instead of the white, don't invert. In the layer palette, highlight both the invert layer and the mask layer and right click and merge layers. Make sure you are in this new mask layer, change blending (where it says normal) to screen.  Go to Layer (in the menu bar)>Merge Visible. Using the magic wand, click on the white part around the masked image, tolerance set at about 8 (experiment with this, make sure you set it at whatever will pick up all of the white, but not any of the masked image), hit the delete key and it will be masked on a transparent bg.  |
| 6. Click the new layer icon in the top of the layer palette (left side, just below the word Normal in PSE, bottom-2nd from right in PS), in the layer palette grab and pull below the gradient layer with the left click on your mouse. Flood fill this layer with color from tube.  Right click on a layer and Flatten Image. |
7. FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default.   |
| 8. Enhance>Auto Sharpen (PSE) If you don't have this command, go to Effects>Sharpen or Enhance>Adjust sharpness, whatever command you can find for sharpening and sharpen at default.  |
| 9. Copy-paste (control-c to copy, then control-v to paste) your tube and resize so that it fits in the first left top square. This should be just under 200 pixels in height. (If it's a very large tube, you may want to resize it first before pasting. Make sure in the resize window you pick image and objects.)  |
10. Lower opacity of tube layer (in layer palette) to about 25 or to your taste.   Merge all. |
11. Effects>Simple>Quick Tile, then copy the tile (control-C) |
| 12. With your new tile active, go to Edit>Define Pattern, (it should be open to that pattern already when the window opens). Click on ok.  |
| 13. Open new canvas 1280X400 (I prefer the 1280 width as most modern monitors are fairly large. You can pick another width if you like. The height has to stay at 400 as it's the height of the tile. |
| 14. Go to Edit>Fill Layer>Contents Use-pick pattern-and in Custom Pattern drop down menu, pick your tile out of the patterns and pick your new pattern. Click on ok.  If you think it's too dark or bright for stationery, add new layer, click on fill tool and fill new layer with a coordinating color or white, reduce the opacity of this layer in the layer palette till you see what you like. You can then sharpen again if you like, to bring out the embossing again.  |
| 15. Resize your tube to about 375 in height (try and keep the width to less than 350 even if your tube is not quite as high. Any wider and it's too large for a stat border), and apply your tube to the new stationery strip, move it to the left side, add a shadow if desired. In PSE with the tube layer active, in Artwork and effects palette, pick layer styles and drop shadow in the drop down to the right, then pick the soft edge drop shadow. In PS: with the tube layer active, go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow, play with the sliders. I like my opacity set at 50%, distance at 6, spread at 13, size at 10, everything else default.   Merge all, watermark and you're done |
| l hope you had fun! |
Other Examples  The above two were made with a gradient with 0 repeats The one below was made with a gradient with multiple repeats, I don't like the effect as well.  |
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