Les 3: Stranger

Materials 

Filters

Simple

Flaming Pear Transline

Eye Candy 4000

Xero (Porcelain)

Adjust Variations

Open a new image 640x480 px transparent

Choose two colors from your misted tube. I choose #396763 as foreground (lighter than backgr color) and took black as background

Foreground to gradient with these settings

Flood fill layer with this gradient

Blur – gaussian blur 30

Effects texture effects texture bricks (“bakstenen” in Dutch)

Layer, new rasterlayer

Change foreground color to white

With the brush tool choose brush @cb_flower3, standard settings

Stamp this brush 4 times in the corners (they may overlap)

Activate the brush @cb_egyptian4 standard settings

Stamp once in the middle

Effects – Filter Simple – Center Tile

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

Layer palette – blend mode soft light

Take your filmstrip, (shift + D and close the original)

Edit - copy, edit - paste as a new layer

Image – free rotate - left 90° - all unchecked

With the move tool, move to the right

Effects – Xero Porcelain attention: following settings!

(I choose for a green channel because that fits best in my creation)

Effects - Eye Candy 4000 – Motion Trail following settings:

Effects – Adjust Variations – click once on Original and afterwards once on More Cyan

Activate the misted tube, Edit - copy, edit - paste as a new layer

Move to the left corner

Layer palette – opacity 60%– blend mode = screen

Layer – new rasterlayer

Foreground color to gradient same as before but invert = checked

Selection – load selection from disk and choose @nn_sel001_stranger

Flood fill with the gradient

Deselect

Effects –Flaming Pear – Transline

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow horz/vert 3 opacity 75, blur 8 color black

Layer palette – blend mode = soft light

Layer palette : arrange, move down

Image add borders 3 px black ( save your tag now, so you can use it on a later occasion)

Layer - new textlayer

Lock the foreground color, background color = black

With the texttool, choose the font size 150, floating

Write down your text

Effects – 3D effects – inner bevel following settings

Repeat dropshadow

Deselect

Save as a jpg

Other examples see Ann’s lessson

Hugs

Jille