Gradient Star

You will need a face tube

Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500

In your material palette have two colours from your tube a dark one in the foreground and a lighter one in the background box. I used a bright orange and the very palest cream colour

Look for the gradient of the two colours by clicking on the foreground box and going to gradient, the one you will be using is called foreground/background and is usually the first gradient in the menu.

Chose gradient style linear and angle and repeats 0

Flood fill the canvas with this gradient.

Change the boxes around in your material palette so that the light colour is your foreground and the gradient is your background.

Preset shape tool on star -draw a star to almost fill the canvas-objects-align-centre in canvas.

Layers merge visible.

Effects-image effects-seamless tiling

Effects-edge effects-enhance

Effects-edge effects-enhance more.

Select all-selections-modify-select selection borders-check inside and size 25.

Effects-3D-outer bevel-default setting-repeat the outer bevel but change the angle to 130.

Select none

Effects -3D- Buttonise on default setting.

On the tube hide the layer with the artists information and highlight the face layer -edit-copy-edit paste onto the canvas as a new layer.

Arrange in the centre as you like -effects-3D-drop shadow-default setting.

Layers- merge visible

Resize to the size you would like the finished tag.

Adjust-sharpness-sharpen.

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

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

written by Chrissie April 18th 2005