Reflections
10/25/02
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You will need Paint Shop Pro and Super Blade Pro to complete this tutorial.

~ : Supplies : ~

PATTERN:
Right click on pattern and "Save Picture As"
Open this in PSP and Minimize it.

Download the
Place the Night Sky font in your Fonts Folder
The tubes in your Tubes Folder and the Gold_Shiny preset inside your Environments and Textures Folder inside Super Blade Pro.

 
Open a New 300x250 Transparent Image
Flood Fill with #202020
Add a new Raster Layer

Add your text
 Night Sky Font
Size 48
White Fill
Stroke Null
Bold Centered
Floating and Anti alias both checked
Center text with mover tool

Add the gold_shiny Preset using Super Blade Pro
changing these settings:
Radius 4
Height -60
glare 26
OK

Deselect
Duplicate the text layer

Image/Flip
Effects/blur/Gaussian Blur
Set it to 4.97
Text transparency...84



New layer
Add the dogwood tube
Scale it to 25  (Yes I know its huge!  lol)
Arrange dogwood where you want it
Duplicate the dogwood layer
Image/Flip
Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur
4.97
Move dogwood till it looks like it is reflecting in the same place as the original one.  it may go off the edge of the pic.

New Raster Layer
Add rose tube at 60%

Add a Drop shadow with these settings
Vertical 11
Horizontal 1 
Opacity 80
Blur 8.6
 
Duplicate Layer
Image/Flip
Apply the gaussian blur again, Same setting as before.
Arrange the blurred rose till it appears under the regular one.
It should look as it the top rose is setting on a glass table


In your layer palette,
move the blurred rose under the text layer..should be the second layer.


Make final adjustments and then merge visible.
Set your background color to white and add a border.
Symmetric 12.

Grab your magic wand and click on the inside of the border so the marching ants encase the border.
Apply the gold shiny settings again using the same settings as before.
Selections/ Invert
Apply a cutout with these settings
horizontal and vertical 3
Op 80
Blur 5
color black

Apply the cutout again changing the horizontal and vertical to
-3
add another border/Symmetric 15
Tap the magic wand inside the new border so the marching ants are encasing it.
Flood fill with Pattern Fill I have supplied for you.
scale pattern to 94


Selections/Invert
Apply a drop shadow using these settings
vertical 3
horizontal 3
op 80
blur 4.9
Color Black
Apply the drop shadow again changing the vertical and horizontal to -3
Deselect
Add one more Border/Symmetric 9
Tap the magic wand inside the new white border
Apply the gold shiny preset one more time.
Selections/Invert.
Apply a cut out using the same settings from before.
Apply the cutout one more time changing the vertical and horizontal to 3
And that's it.
 
 

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