Crop Circles Tag
 
 You will need a tube of your choice

Silver pattern

Crop Circles Dingbats

VM Toolbox-Rotatile

Supplies -tube-silver and Dingbats here

 
Open a new canvas 500 x 500 transparent
 
Set your material palette with silver pattern- angle 0 scale 100- in background and black in foreground
 
Now text tool-crop circles dingbats size 200 and stroke width 1-type in a small e-add a drop shadow on default setting. Adjust- sharpness-sharpen-Adjust- sharpness -sharpen more.
 
Centre this image then -effects -plug-ins VM Toolbox-rotatile-settings Size 63 rotation 0 Zoom 207 X anchor 92  Y anchor 6
 
Set materials palette to colours of your choice and then go to text tool and the Crop circles dingbats size 400
 
Type in capital H-add an inner bevel on the groove preset if you have it otherwise add one of your choice.
 
Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto your canvas--arrange as you wish.
 
Then merge layers visible.
 
Add a new layer and flood fill with a colour of your choice-I chose one of the fading gradients as I didn't want it to be too dark.
 
 Layers-send to the bottom.

Layers merge all and flatten

Add a border or frame of your choice.

Resize as you wish.

Add a new layer for your text, watermark and any artists information that may be required.

Merge all layers.

That's it I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
 
written by Chrissie August 2004 rewritten Dec 3rd 2004 rewritten and relocated here April 23rd 2005