Blue Moon Fae

Blue Moon Fae Tag

Paint Shop Pro 8 or 9
Tube: KJM-Celtic Moon Fae (Thanks for the tube KJM)
Pattern: bmft pattern
Filters: VM Distortion – origami radial folder
Eye Candy 3.01 – perspective shadow
Greg’s Factory Output Vol 2 – pool shadow

Magic Wand Settings for this tutorial:

1. Open the tube you want to use or use this one. Shift D to Duplicate then close
your original.

2. Open the bmft pattern file & minimize so that you can add it to the material pallet

3. Set the background color to a dark color from the tube (I used 58677c) & the foreground to the pattern you minimizied earlier scale set to 100.

3. Open a new file 500 x 500 transparent.

4. Flood fill with the background color (dark color you selected from your tube)

5. Effects – Plugins – VM Distortion – origami radial folder

6. After applying the VM Distortion filter, go to Effects – Illumination – Sunburst
and apply the following settings:

7. Adjust – Brightness & Contrast – Clarify @ 4. Repeat this step one more time.

8. Adjust – Brightness & Contrast – Brightness @ 31 Contrast @ -22

9. Resize your tube by 85 – bicubic, lock aspect ration & all layers checked.

10. Activate your tube and copy and paste as a new layer on your new background
Image. Your tube should now be on raster layer 2. Move the tube with your
mover tool & place it where it looks good to you.

11. With raster layer 2 highlighted (your tube layer ) Adjust – brightness & contrast -Carity set at 4

12. Still on raster 2 (your tube layer) Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy 3.01 –
Perspective shadow with these settings:

13. Remaining on raster 2 (your tube layer) Effects – 3 D Effects – Inner Bevel:

14. Repeat the Inner Bevel with the same settings as above one more time.

15. Highlight the background layer to make it active

16. With your selection tool set to rectangle, select the center of your image all the way around your image in this position (yes, leave more on the left hand side).This selection has to be really close to the screenshot in order to this effect to work. Go to View - Rulers To help with the line up of this selection.

17. With this selection go to Effects – 3D Effects Drop Shadow:

18. Repeat this step 3 more times changing only the Vertical & Horizontal
Second time V -3 H 3
Third time V 3 H 3
Forth time V -3 H -3

19. Selections – Modify – Expand by 3 pixels

20. Selections – Invert

21. Effects – Geometric – Perspective Horizontal & Set the Distortion level at 45 - Color Black

22. SELECT NONE

23. With the magic wand tool select the black part of the image and fill the center right black bar with the pattern: Leave the top & bottom black sections for later. To select all the black parts of the image, hold down your shift key while using the magic wand.

24. DO NOT DESELECT

25. Effects – 3D Effects - Outer Bevel

26. Apply the Same Outer Bevel again EXCEPT set the angel @ 173

27. Selections – Modify – Contract by 15 pixels

28. Flood fill this selection with the pattern. DO NOT DESELECT

29. Effects – 3 D Effects – Inner Bevel the same as Step 12 & Step 13

30. Selections – Modify – Expand by 6 pixels

31. Effects – 3 D Effects – Drop Shadow the same as in Step 17& 18 EXCEPT change the color to bdd2f2. Total applications of Drop Shadow when finished will be 4 just as you previously did.

32. SELECT NONE

33. Keeping the background layer active in your layer pallet, Effects – Plugins – Greg’s Factory Output Vol 2 – Pool Shadow:

34. Right click on your layer pallet and merge visible.

Resize to your tag requirements. Bicubic – aspect ration & all layers checked. If you add
text don’t forget to add it on a new layer. Is much easier to delete a layer then to use the
undo function ?

Hope you have enjoyed doing this one and it has given you some new creative ideas. Experiment, keep smiling & have fun. Hugggggggggggggers brandy