Friendly Face Tag

You will need a face tube

Open a new transparent canvas 500x500

In your material palette add two pale colours from your tube. In the foreground box click on gradient and look for the foreground/background gradient that is a mixture of the two chosen colours.- it is usually the first one in the gradient palette

Flood fill the canvas with this gradient.

Adjust-sharpness-sharpen. Adjust sharpness -sharpen more

Selections-select all. Selections -modify-select selection borders-chose inside and border width 25.

Selections invert.

Selections- modify-select selection borders-chose inside and size 5.

Effects-3D-inner bevel-default setting.

Selections-select all then repeat the modify-select-selection borders-inside and size 25.

Effects texture-texture-blinds -default setting.

Copy and paste the tube as a new layer.

Effects-image effects-seamless tiling-default setting.

Reduce the opacity of this layer to 40 then layers merge visible.

Image resize as you wish and -adjust-sharpness -sharpen.

Merge layers visible.

You can add any text you like or even another tube or corners.

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

written by Chrissie April 15th 2005