Blinds

You will need a tube similar to mine

Open a new transparent canvas 500x500

Add new layer and work on this new layer.

Have black colour in your foreground box of the material palette and paintbrush tool on size 3-blend normal

 Click once into a corner of the canvas-hold down the shift key and click in the opposite corner. This will make 2 triangles by dividing the canvas.

 Now click once with the paintbrush anywhere on the outside edge of the canvas and on the dividing line. Do this a few time until you have an interesting background grid.

Click with you magic wand in one of the segments and flood fill with a colour or gradient to match your tube.

Effects-textures-blinds-width 4 opacity 30 colour white and no horizontal or vertical.

Select none.

With magic wand select another segment and flood fill with the colour or gradient you used before.

Effects -texture-blinds-change the setting a bit and see what you can come up with. Keep repeating the selection-flood fill-effect-blinds until all the shapes are filled.

As in screenshot.

Layers merge Visible.

Effects -reflection effects-kaleidoscope with the setting in the screenshot

Selections-selections modify-select selection borders. Settings -inside and 40

Effects-3D-inner bevel of your choice.

Select none.

Image-resize-85-with maintain original print size checked and bilinear setting.

Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto the tag and arrange so that it fits resting on the frame at the bottom.

Effects-3D drop shadow-default setting but change the vertical to minus -10 instead of 10.

With eraser tool carefully remove any of the drop shadow that has gone onto the frame.

Add a new layer for any text-watermark and artists information.

If you used my tube you don't need to add any artist © because it is my own creation.

Layers merge visible.

That's you tag finished. I hope you enjoyed making it.

written by Chrissie May 2005