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For this tutorial you will need:
Mock Filter from here
A selection of Tubes, colours and font of your choice.
I have included my flower I used in the zip file. Leave file name intact please.
Download here
Choose your colours from the tube or a complimentary colour
Here we go .......
Open a 500 x 500 Transparent image
Flood fill with a light colour from your tube.
Apply Mocks Windo Filter with these settings:
Windo 128 Frame 25 and the remainder of the settings at 25
Magnify your image.
Magic Wand - Click on the transparent cross - Selections Modify, Expand by 8 -
Hit delete. Selections None Rename this layer 'Solid'.
Leave the Solid layer active - Magic Wand - Select the lighter outer edges - Selections Modify Expand by 1
Selections Promote to Layer - Rename 'Border'. My border is white.
Hide your Border layer but leave it selected.
Highlight the Solid layer and hit Delete - Selections None
You ought to have four squares on the solid layer.
Duplicate the Solid layer and Rename 'Stripes'.
Still on the Stripes layer - Select All - Float - Apply Texture effects Mosaic Glass with the following settings:
Columns = 36 Rows = 25 Glass Curvature = 80 Edge = 0 Grout Width = 0 Diffusion = 100 Colour White Selections None and lower opacity to 80%.
Highlight Solid layer - Bicubic resize 85% - Rotate image 45 degrees - Apply Blinds effect as follows: Width 2, Opacity 50, Colour Black - Horizontal checked.
 
Unhide and Highlight Border Layer - Bicubic resize 85%
Apply Reflection Kaleidoscope as follows:
Horizontal and Vertical offset = 21 Rotation = 90 Scale = 35 Petals = 12 Orbits = 1 Radial Suction = 0, Wrap checked.
 
Selections All - Selections float
Apply an Inner Bevel to the Border as follows: Round Width 20, Smoothness = 15
Depth = 1 Ambience = 50 Shininess = 10 Angle = 354 Intensity = 50
Elevation = 20 Colour White or change to a complimentary colour. Selections None
 
Apply a Drop Shadow to the Border layer Horizontal and Vertical = 2
Opacity = 50 Blur = 7 Colour black
Apply a Drop Shadow to the Stripes layer Horizontal and Vertical = 4
Opacity = 50 Blur = 7 Colour black
Add a New Raster Layer and send to bottom Rename 'Background' - Flood fill with a light colour from your tube.
Apply Texture Effects, Fine Leather as follows:
Colour Black, Angle = 239 Blur = 10 Transparency = 250 Furrows = 139
Length of furrows = 6
On the Background layer Select All - Modify - Contract by 5 - Invert Selection and add the same Inner Bevel as above Leave Selected and Add a Drop Shadow
Horizontal and Vertical = 4 Opacity = 50 Blur = 7
Repeat the shadow with Horizontal and Vertical at Minus 4. Select None.
The background is finished.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. If you add your tube below the Border layer make sure none of it pokes out. *G*
Apply Drop shadow to tube layer. Vertical = 8, Horizontal = 1, Opacity = 50, Blur = 12, Colour Black.
Highlight the Border layer, Add your text on a new layer as a vector. Convert to raster when suitably placed.
Apply the same Inner Bevel as above and a drop shadow to your liking.
Merge all layers and resize using Bicubic settings.
Add your watermark and any necessary copyright information.
Be creative, a tutorial is a guideline only so have fun
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