Franie Margot

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Obrigado Estela pela tradução dos tutriais.

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Estela Fonseca Thank you for letting us translate your tutorials.

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Materials used:

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Plugins used:
Unlimited 2.0 – Funhouse – Faceter
Unlimited 2.0 – &<Sandflower Specials “V” – Design Blinds
Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (vertical)
VanDerLee – Unplugged-X – Defocus
Simple – Top Left Mirror
Toadies – Plain Mosaic Blur
Mura’s Meister – Perspective Tiling
Mura’s Seamless – Emboss at Alpha
FM Tile Tools – Saturation Emboss
Carolaine and Sensibility – CS_DLines
AAA Frames – Foto Frame
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact – Glass
User Defined Filter – Edge_Enhance

The tutorial is written with these colors and materials.
If you use your own colors and / or materials, you may have to play with the Blend Mode / Opacity settings.

Material palette – Foreground color # 7e5b47 / Background color # f4f3f1

Create a Linear gradient on the Foreground

Open the alpha file Alpha_Franie_Margot – Window – Duplicate (or use Shift+D) – Close the original file we are working on the copy
Fill in the gradient

Effects – Filter Unlimited 2.0 – Funhouse – Faceter

Effects – Reflection Effects – Rotating Mirror / Default

Effects – User Defined Filter – Edge_Enhance

Effects – Filter Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (vertical)

Layers – Duplicate
Layers – Properties – Overlay Blend Mode

Layers – merge – merge down
Layers – Duplicate

Image – Resize – Change with 80% – Uncheck all layers
Image – Free rotate

Effects – Plugins VanDerLee – Unplugged-X – Defocus

Effects – Edge Effects – Erode
Layers – Duplicate

Layers – Properties – Blend mode Hard light
Layers – merge – merge down
Layers – Duplicate

Layer palette – Activate the middle layer (Copy of Raster 1)
Effects – Geometric Effects – Skew

Effects – Filter Simple – Top Left Mirror

Effects – Image Effects – Seamless Tiling / Default

Effects – Filters Toadies – Plain Mosaic Blur / Default

Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Overlay / Opacity 69

Layer palette – Activate the top layer (Copy 2 of Raster1)
Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Filter Unlimited 2.0 – & <Sandflower Specials “V” – Design Blinds / Default
With Red Green and Blue – you can adjust the values to your own color

Effects – Reflection Effects – Rotating Mirror / Default
Effects – Plugins Mura’s Meister – Perspective Tiling

Material palette – Create a Sunburst gradient on the Foreground

Layers – New raster layer
Selections – Load / Save – Load Selection from Alpha Channel Selection # 1

Fill in the gradient
Selections – Select none

Effects – Filter Mura’s Seamless – Emboss at Alpha / Default

Effects – Reflection Effects – Feedback

Selections – Load / Save – Load Selection from Alpha Channel Selection # 2

Edit – Cut the image is now in memory
Selections – Select none

Edit – Paste as a new layer

Image – Free rotate

Effects – Distortion Effects – Wave

Image – Resize – Resize with 75% – Uncheck all layers
Objects – Align – Left

Effects – Filter Mura’s Seamless – Emboss at Alpha / Default

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror – Mirror horizontal
Layers – merge – merge down
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop shadow / 0/0/50/30 / # 000000

Selections – Load / Save – Load Selection from Alpha Channel Selection # 3

Image – Crop to selection

Layer palette – Activate the second layer from the bottom (Copy of Raster 1)

Effects – Reflection Effects – Rotating Mirror

Layer palette – Activate the third layer from the bottom (Copy 2 of Raster 1)

Open the tube paysage_284_franiemargot – Copy – Paste as new layer
Layers – Load / Save Masks – Load mask from disk
Load the mask 20-20

Layers – Merge – Merge group

Place something up – See example

Effects – Filter FM Tile Tools – Saturation Emboss / Default

Layers – merge – merge down

Activate Selection tool Rectangle – Custom selection

Selections – Promote selection to layer
Effects – Plugins AAA Frames – Foto Frame

Effects – Plugins AAA Frames – Foto Frame

Selections – Select none

Layer palette – Activate the top layer (Raster 3)
Effects – Image Effects – Offset / 0/70

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror – Mirror vertical
Effects – Image Effects – Offset / Same setting

The Layers Palette – Now looks like this

The work looks like this

Layers – New raster layer
Selections – Load / Save – Load Selection from Alpha Channel Selection # 4

Fill inn the gradient (Sunburst)
Effects Filter Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact – Glass

Selections – Modify – Contract 30 pixels
Effects again Filter Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact – Glass / the same settings
Selections – Select none

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror – Mirror horizontal

Open the tube woman_1359_franiemargot – Copy – Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Change with 70% – Uncheck all layers
Activate Selection tool (K) / Position X 480 / Position Y 83

Type M to close the tool

Edit – Copy special – Copy merged
Edit – Paste as a new image (we’ll work with this image for a while)
Image – Resize – Change with 30% – Check all layers
Effects – Plugins AAA Frames – Foto Frame

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Note:If there is a difference because of your own tube then undo it until step 22
Adjust the position X and Y / so that the effect of Photo Frame is the same

Edit – Copy
Activate your work
Edit – Paste as a new layer
Activate Selection tool (K) / Position X 41 / Position Y 365

Type M to close the tool

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Resize – Resize with 80% – Uncheck all layers
Activate Selection tool (K) / Position X 174 / Position Y 36

Type M to close the tool

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Resize – Resize with 80% – Uncheck all layers
Activate Selection tool (K) / Position X 788 / Position Y 443

Type M to close the tool
Layers – Merge 2x Merge Down
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow / 0/0/50/30 / # 000000

Layer palette – Activate the second layer from the top (Raster 5)
Layers – Delete

Image – Add Borders – Symmetric
2 pixels color # 000000

Edit – Copy
Selections – Select all

Image – Add Borders – Symmetric
50 pixels color # ffffff

Selections – Invert
Edit – Paste into selection
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur / Range 50

Effects – Plugins Carolaine and Sensibility – CS_DLines / Default

Selections – Invert
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow / 0/0/50/30 / # 000000
Selections – Select none

Open the tube woman_1359_franiemargot again – Copy – Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Change with 95% – Uncheck all layers
Place the tube of your choice or as on the example crea
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow / 0/0/50/30 / # 000000

Place your Name / Watermark
Image – Add Borders – Symmetric
2 pixels color # 000000

Image – Resize to 1000 pixels width
Save as Jpeg

We have finished the tutorial from Estela

This translation has been tested by Marianne , thank you very much for testing

Franie Margot Engels

Franie Margot