Star Gazer

You will need a tube of your choice.

My gold pattern-right click and copy-paste into PSP and use in as a pattern in your materials palette

Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500

In foreground box of your material palette have black and in the background box my gold pattern.

Preset shapes tool-Line width 5 and Star shape.

Draw a star about 2/3rds the size of you canvas-objects-align-centre in canvas.

Convert to raster layer.

Effects edge effects -enhance.

Effects 3D -Drop shadow-default setting.

Layer -duplicate. Work on merged layer by highlighting it in your layer palette.

Effects-image effects-seamless tiling.

Add a new layer-flood fill with a colour of your choice and add a texture of your choice.

Layers arrange-send to bottom.

Layers merge all and flatten.

Add a border or frame of your choice. Mine has a small border but it doesnt show up on thsi background

Image resize 75-check maintain original size. Resample using-bicubic for a sharper image. Adjust -sharpness-sharpen once.

Copy and paste your tube-resize to fit as you like and position where you think it looks best.

Add a default drop shadow as before.

Merge layers then add a new layer for your text, watermark and any artists information that may be required.

Layers -merge visible and save as a jpg.

That's the tutorial finished I do hope that you enjoyed it.

written by Chrissie April 9th 2005