Blue Moon

You will need a tube similar in size to mine about 440x410 mine

Open a new transparent canvas 500x 500

With selection tool on circle draw a circle almost as big as your canvas but not touching the edges of the canvas

Still keep selections

Add a new layer

Flood fill this with a colour from your tube.

Chose a dark shade of the same colour

With paintbrush on round 50 setting paint and paint squiggles here and there inside the circle

Adjust-blur-Gaussian blur-radius 20

Reduce the opacity of this layer to 70 then -layers -merge visible

Selections-select all

Selections float.

Selections modify-contract by 20

Selections invert -Adjust- blur-Gaussian blur as before.

Select none

Reduce the opacity layer to 90

Duplicate this layer and resize this duplicate layer only by 75 %

Effects illumination effects -sunburst on default setting.

Arrange this layer to the top left of your canvas

Add a new layer and flood fill with a dark colour to represent the night time sky.

Add a few stars to this if you wish-I used the white sparkle which I have in my tubes and I changed the size a couple of time.

When you are happy-layers arrange send to the bottom

Layers- merge visible

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and arrange as you wish.

Layers merge visible and resize to suit you

Image -add border-size 20 -white

Select this border with your magic wand and fill with a pale colour from your tag.

Keep the selections and effects-reflection effects-kaleidoscope-settings as in the screen shot

The horizontal offset is 4 it doesn't show up too well on this screenshot

Add an inner bevel of your choice mine is the one in the screenshot

Resize again if you wish-adjust sharpness -sharpen if it needs it- then add a new layer for your text

Layers -merge visible

That's the tutorial finished.

I hope that you enjoyed doing it

Written by Chrissie February 2006