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::Enhancing The Dark Side:: Tutorial by TaRacey Tube used in my example was purchased at DSK **Do NOT share this tutorial with anyone else. It is for members ONLY** Please link back to http://www.taracey.com/ Supplies Needed: A tube of your choice Plugin: L en K landksiteofwonders (L en K's Jeffrey) You can find it HERE Let's Begin :) 1. Open a tube of your choice 2. Duplicate (Shift and D) and close original 3. Image->Resize Resample using: Smart Size checked Width and Height in Pixels Settings: Width no more than 275 Height no more than 350 Lock aspect ratio checked Resize all layers checked 4. Adjust-> Sharpness->Sharpen 5. Dropper Tool-> Choose a dark color for your Foreground and the same color but a little lighter for the Background. Very light colors don't work well with this tutorial. 6. Edit-> Copy 7. File-> New Width 250 Height 8 Image Characteristics- Raster Background Color: Transparent checked 8. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 9. Image-> Add Borders Color your Foreground color Symmetric checked Top, Left, Right and Bottom 1 A Note: It may look like your canvas disappeared. If so, you can go to View-> Zoom-> Zoom In More. 10. Layers-> Promote Background Layer 11. Image-> Canvas Size Width 275 Height 25 Placement TOP CENTER 12. Layers-> Duplicate 13. Image-> Flip 14. Layers-> Merge-> Merge Visible At this point, if you zoomed to see your canvas better, you can zoom out now by going to View-> Zoom-> Zoom Out More. 15. Image-> Canvas Size Width 275 Height 375 Placement TOP CENTER 16. Layers-> Duplicate 17. Image-> Flip 18. Layers-> Merge-> Merge Visible 19. Image-> Canvas Size Width 275 Height 400 Placement CENTER 20. Effects-> 3D Effects-> Inner Bevel-> Bevel 12 Settings: Width: 31 Image Smoothness: 0 Depth: 1 Ambience: 0 Shininess: 0 Light Color: White Angel: 315 Intensity: 50 Elevation: 30 21. Selection Tool-> Custom Selection Settings: Top: 50 Left: 10 Right: 265 Bottom: 350 22. Layers-> New Raster Layer 23. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Foreground color 24. Selections-> Modify-> Contract Number of pixels: 1 25. Layers-> New Raster Layer 26. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 27. Selections-> Select None Yours should look something like this: 28. Effects-> Plugins-> L en K landksiteofwonders-> L en K's Jeffrey Settings: Tile 7 29. Effects-> Image Effects-> Seamless Tile Tiling Method- Corner Direction- Vertical Settings Vertical Offset 0 Transition 50 30. Effects-> Edge Effects-> Enhance 31. Layers Palette-> Click on the bottom layer to highlight it 32. Layers-> Arrange-> Bring to Top 33. Effects-> 3D Effects-> Drop Shadow Settings: Offset Vertical 0 Horizontal 0 Attributes Opacity 25 Blur 5 Color: black Shadow on new layer not checked 34. Layers-> New Raster Layer 35. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 36. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Foreground color Yours should look something like this: 37. Image-> Add Borders Color your Foreground color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 38. Image-> Add Borders Color your Background color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 39. Image-> Add Borders Color your Foreground color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 40. Layers-> Promote Background Layer 41. Image-> Canvas Size Width 1700 Height 400 Placement LEFT CENTER Change Left to 10 *A Note* If your width is set wider than 1700, your background results will be different than mine 42. Layers-> New Raster Layer 43. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 44. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with either your Foreground or Background color 45. If you used your Foreground color for the background: Effects-> Texture Effects-> Blinds Width 2 Opacity 25 Color your Background color Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked >>>>>OR<<<<< If you used your Background color for the background: Effects-> Texture Effects-> Blinds Width 2 Opacity 25 Color your Foreground color Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked 46. Effects-> Reflection Effects-> Pattern Settings: Image Area Horizontal offset (%): 0 Vertical offset (%): 0 Rotation

::CrissCross Lines:: Tutorial by TaRacey Tube used in my example purchased at DSK **Do NOT share this tutorial with anyone else. It is for members ONLY** Please link back to http://www.taracey.com/ Supplies: A tube of your choice (Tubes that are about the same size or a little longer work best) TaRaceyCrissCrossLinesTemplate Plugin: Scribe (Noisey). It can be found HERE Let's Begin :)) 1. Open TaRaceyCrissCrossLinesTemplate 2. Duplicate (Shift and D) and close the original 3. Layers Palette-> Right click and delete Credits 4. Open a tube of your choice 5. Duplicate (Shift and D) and close the original 6. Image->Resize Resample using: Smart Size checked Width and Height in Pixels Settings: Width no more than 250 Height no more than 275 Lock aspect ratio checked Resize all layers checked 7. Adjust-> Sharpness-> Sharpen 8. Edit-> Copy 9. Dropper Tool-> Choose a nice color for your Background We will choose a Foreground color later :) 10. Go back to the template 11. Adjust/Color Balance/Manual Color Correction Settings: Manual target color Freehand selection not checked Source #c0c0c0 Target your Background color 12. Dropper Tool-> Choose the lightest color in your template and make it your Foreground color 13. Layers-> New Raster Layer 14. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 15. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Foreground color 16. Effects-> Texture Effects-> Blinds Width 3 Opacity 20 Color your Background color Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked If the blinds aren't showing up well, increase Opacity to 25-30 17. Effects-> Texture Effects-> Weave Gap Size: 1 Width: 1 Opacity: 20 Weave color: your Background color Gap color: your Foreground color Fill gaps checked 18. Layers-> Merge-> Merge Visible 19. Effects-> Plugins-> Scribe-> Noisey Control 0: 10 20. View-> Zoom-> Zoom in More 21. Dropper Tool-> Choose the darkest color for your new Foreground by left clicking on one of the dark borders 22. View-> Zoom-> Zoom to 100% 23. Image-> Add Borders Color your new dark Foreground color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 24. Image-> Add Borders Color your Background color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 2 25. Image-> Add Borders Color your lightest color that you chose from the template earlier Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 26. Image-> Add Borders Color your Background color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 2 27. Image-> Add Borders Color your new dark Foreground color Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 28. Layers-> Promote Background Layer 29. Image-> Canvas Size Width 1700 or your choice Height 400 Placement Left center 30. Layers-> New Raster Layer 31. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 32. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 33. Effects-> Texture Effects-> Blinds Width 3 Opacity 20 Color: either your darkest or lightest color Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked In my example, I used my darkest color 34. Effects-> Plugins-> Scribe-> Noisey Settings the same: Control 0: 10 35. Layers Palette-> click on the top layer to activate it 36. Effects-> 3D Effects-> Drop Shadow Settings: Offset Vertical 0 Horizontal 2 Attributes Opacity 20 or your choice Blur 10 Color: black Shadow on new layer checked 37. Effects-> Image Effects-> Seamless Tile Tiling Method- Corner Direction- Vertical Settings Vertical Offset 0 Transition 50 38. Edit-> Paste-> Paste as New Layer (your tube) 39. Layers-> Arrange-> Bring to Top 40. Move Tool-> Position your tube to the left 41. Effects-> 3D Effects-> Drop Shadow Settings: Offset Vertical 2 Horizontal 2 Attributes Opacity 20 or your choice Blur 10 Color: black Shadow on new layer not checked *Optional* Add any text, brushes, accents, watermark etc. 42. Layers-> Merge-> Merge All 43. File-> Export-> JPEG Optimizer Set compression value to: 15 and direct it to a folder. 44. Finish in the Letter Creator. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions please email me at TaRacey@... I would love to see your results if you like to share it wi

:: Subtle Country Tiles :: Tutorial by TaRacey Tube used in my example by DigiWebStudio **Do NOT share this tutorial with anyone else. It is for members ONLY** Please link back to http://www.taracey.com/ Supplies: A Tube of your choice Plugins-> Mehdi (Sorting Tiles) FM Tile Tools-> Blend Emboss Both can be found HERE Optional: Texture of your choice or Filters Unlimited 2.0-> Paper Textures-> Canvas, Fine Or you may choose not to use any texture A trial version of FU2 can be found HERE Let's Begin :)) 1. Open a tube of your choice 2. Duplicate (Shift and D) and close original 3. Image->Resize Resample using: Smart Size checked Width and Height in Pixels Settings: Width no more than 295 Height no more than 350 Lock aspect ratio checked Resize all layers checked 4. Adjust-> Sharpness->Sharpen 5. Dropper Tool-> Choose white for your Foreground color and a medium to dark color for your Background. Edit-> Copy 7. File-> New Width 65 Height 400 Image Characteristics- Raster Background Color: Transparent checked 8. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 9. Image-> Add Borders Color white Symmetric not checked Top and Bottom 0 Left and Right 1 10. Layers-> Promote Background Layer 11. Image-> Canvas size Width 150 Height 400 Placement left center 12. Layers-> Duplicate 13. Image-> Mirror 14. Layers-> Merge-> Merge Visible 15. Image-> Canvas size Width 300 Height 400 Placement left center Change Left to 10 16. Layers-> New Raster Layer 17. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 18. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 19. Effects-> Textures Effects-> Blinds Settings: Width 2 Opacity 30 Color white Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked 20. Image-> Add Borders Color white Symmetric not checked Top, Left and Bottom 0 Right 1 21. Layers-> Promote Background Layer 22. Layers-> Properties-> Change Opacity to 50 23. Image-> Canvas size Width 1700 Height 400 Placement left center 24. Layers-> New Raster Layer 25. Layers-> Arrange-> Send to Bottom 26. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 27. Effects-> Textures Effects-> Blinds Settings the same: Width 2 Opacity 30 Color white Horizontal not checked Light from left/top checked 28. Effects-> Plugins-> Mehdi-> Sorting Tiles Settings: Block Range 150-300 Block 200 Crossed selected 29. Effects-> Plugins-> FM Tile Tools-> Blend Emboss at Default Settings as below: 30. Layers-> New Raster Layer 31. Flood Fill Tool-> Fill with your Background color 32. Layers-> Properties-> Change Opacity to 90-95 or your choice Optional: You may like to increase or decrease the opacity of the left side border. To do that, just click on the top layer in the Material Palette to highlight it then Layers-> Properties-> Change Opacity to your liking. I like my side border blinds to match the blinds in the background :) When you're all done, 33. Layers-> Merge-> Merge Visible Optional: You may like to add some texture. I'm adding: Effects-> Plugins-> <I.C.Net Software> Filters Unlimited 2.0-> Paper Textures-> Canvas, Fine Settings: Intensity 20 Lightness 87 34. Edit-> Paste-> Paste as New Layer (your tube) 35. Move Tool-> Position your tube on the left 36. Effects-> 3D Effects-> Drop Shadow Settings: Offset Vertical 2 Horizontal 2 Attributes Opacity 30 or your choice Blur 10 Color: black Shadow on new layer not checked 37. Add any text, brushes, accents, watermark, etc 38. Layers-> Merge-> Merge All 39. File-> Export-> JPEG Optimizer Set compression value to 15 and direct it to a folder. 40. Finish in the Letter Creator. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions please email me at TaRacey@... I would love to see your results if you like to share it with me :) Please link back to http://www.taracey.com

Wanted to make another letter with one of TaRacey's tutorials. I really like her tutorials. She wrote quality stuff. My letters here - AI Art by Shannon CrissCross Lines TaRacey (NA) - My Fotki

My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Dancing Snowflakes by Bee's Creations - My Fotki

Just a fun whimsical letter for you today. My IncrediMail Letters HERE - AI Art by Shannon Vasarely Tutorial - My Fotki

Sharing a new letter. Now to get myself ready and go out to shovel. We're under a winter weather advisory until late tonight. Stay safe and warm! My IncrediMail Letters HERE - AI Art by Shannon Stripes Tutorial - My Fotki

IMF is attached My IncrediMail Letters HERE - AI Art by Shannon Winter Greetings Tutorial - My Fotki

My IncrediMail Letters HERE - AI Art by Shannon My Heart Tutorial - My Fotki

Hope everyone is having a good Thursday. We had a nasty winter storm last night with icy conditions and snow. Luckily we didn't lose any power. I'm looking forward to spring. My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Little Laces & Waves SB Tut - My Fotki

New for Valentine's Day My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Circle Back Curls SB Tut by Elaine's Artistry Here & Here - My Fotki

Have a great weekend. My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Blended Ribbons SB Tut by Crissy P - My Fotki

My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Weaved Lines SB Tut by Crissy P - My Fotki

IMF is attached My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Stamping It SB Tut by Crissy P - My Fotki

IMF is attached My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Metallic Beveled Lines Tut - My Fotki

IMF is attached My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Diamonds For Christmas Tut - My Fotki

IMF is attached My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Distorted Diamond Lens Tut - My Fotki

I will be uploading some of my older & new Valentine images to Fotki hopefully later today. My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Diamond Vibration Tube Tut - My Fotki

I've uploaded a few bird tubes to my fotki. My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Little Laces & Waves SB Tut - My Fotki

My letters here - AI Art by Shannon Warped Elegance SB Tut - My Fotki