Lesson written by Ann for Special Blend
The original lesson was written in an early version from Word

Material - download here

Materials: 3 tubes, 1 mask, font (if you choose other tubes, take big tubes)

Filters: VM Instant Art, Flaming Pear (Transtone), Richard Rosenman, Transparency (Eliminate Black)

Let’s go:

Apply mask 2020 on the tubes

Open new image 640x480 px White

Activate the jewel, edit copy – edit- paste as a new layer and move to the left

Activate the hand tube, edit- paste as a new layer

Leave this tube in the middle

Activate the woman tube edit- paste as a new layer

Move to the right see example

Feel free to arrange the tubes to your choice

Layer palette, merge, merge visibly

Layer palette, new raster layer

Effects – filter VM Instant Art – Vernissage standard settings

With the magic wand, tolerance and feather on 0 and select the white part

Delete (keyboard)

Selection invert

repeat delete

Floodfill selection with white

Deselect

Effects – filter Flaming Pear – Transtone

Layer palette blend mode: Overlay

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 1, opacity 100, blur 1 color black

Repeat drop shadow but change settings to horz -1, opacity 100, blur 1 color black

New raster layer

Effects – filter VM Instant Art – Light lines standard settings

Effects – filter Transparency – Eliminate Black

Layer palette blend mode: burn

Duplicate layer

Layer palette blend mode : soft light

Layer palette, merge, merge visibly

Duplicate Layer

Load mask from disk;