Go Wild

Go Wild

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
July 9,2011
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using
a tube by Cuddly Rigor Mortis.
You can find the tubes at CDO
I am using a Limited Edition Bonus
tube in my tag. It is only available
during the month of July.

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Plugins:
Mura's Meister Copies
VM Toolbox Plugin

Open a 600x250 new image.
Open your tube of choice.

Copy & paste your tube as
a new layer.

Apply Mura's Meister copies
Wallpaper (rotate)
Default settings.

Take your selection
rectangle tool.
Draw out a thin rectangle
across the center of the tag.

Promote this selection to layer.
Back on the original wallpaper
layer, duplicate once.

On the duplicated wallpaper
layer apply -
Adjust Blur Gauassian Blur 12.
Lower the opacity to 79 on
the blur layer.

On the blur layer,
apply the plugin
VM Toolbox Lift the cover
Settings:
Edge Position 179
Lightning 140
Drop shadow 62
Intensity 125
Backside 255
Shadow strength 17
Highlight strength 88
Distortion 35

Now on the thin banner
rectangle layer,
while still using VM Toolbox,
apply Seamless Tile effect
-default settings.

Add a drop shadow to the
tile layer.
2,2,50,5 Black.

Using an easy to read font,
size 16
Type out a saying of choice.
Convert to Raster.

Using Mura's Meister Copies again;
this time Tiling
Tile Gap set to 2
Tile your text.

Move down in the layer palette to
between the two wallpaper layers.

Open your main tube again.
Resize 65%
Paste in the corner as top layer.
You want it on the corner with the page curl.

Merge layers visible.
Add copyright info & name.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.