Kaleidoscope Bevel Frame with Background Letter

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Kaleidoscope Bevel Frame with Background IncrediMail Tutorial written by: Jody’s Incredimail Creations permission granted to share at www.missesbeehaven.com


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** This tutorial was written by me after playing around in PSP and is copyrighted by Jody’s Incredimail Creations.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

** ** Image Used in this tut is Copyrighted by Disney **


Getting started:

Open your tube & resize to no more than 400×400. Sharpen if needed.

Duplicate tube & close orginal.

Choose a light color & a dark color from your tube and set them as your foreground & background colors.

Header:

Step 1. Edit-Copy (we will use this later)

Step 2. Effects-Image Effects-Seamless Tiling at Default Settings

Step 3. New Raster Layer and Send to bottom

Step 4. Flood fill with your light color

Step 5. Layers-Merge Visible

Step 6. Effects-Plugins-VideoRave- Tiled Glass with the following settings: 90, 102, 234

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Step 7. Duplicate this image and minimize one for later use

Step 8. Edit-paster as new layer

Step 9. Effects-3D Effects-Drop Shadow with the following settings: 0, 0, 80, 15, Black

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Step 10. Image-Add border-1 pixel symmetric in black

Step 11. Image-Add border-10 pixels symmetric in your light color

Step 12. Select your border with your magic wand

Step 13. Edit-paste into selection

Step 14. Effects-Reflection Effects-Kaleidoscope with the following settings: 22, -9, 0, 0, 6, 0, 1, Reflect

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Step 15. Effects-3D Effects-Inner Bevel with the following settings: #2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, White, 315, 50, 30

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Step 16. Selections-Invert

Step 17. Effects-3 D Effects-Cutout with the following settings: 2, 2, 80, 15, Black

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Step 18. Repeat Cutout with -2, -2

Step 19. Select None

Step 20. Image-Add border-15 pixels symmetric in your dark color

Step 21. Select the border with your magic wand

Step 22. Effect-3D Effects-Inner Bevel with the same settings as earlier

Step 23. Adjust-Add/Remove Noise-Add Noise with the following settings: 10%, Uniform, Monochrome checked

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Step 24. Select None

Step 25. Image-Add border-1 pixel symmetric in Black

Step 26. Image-Add border-20 pixels symmetric in your light color

Step 27. Select the border with your magic wand

Step 28. Edit-paste into selection

Step 29. Effects-Reflection Effects-Kaleidoscope with the same settings as earlier

Step 30. Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur with radius of 10

Step 31. Effects-Plugins-Xero-Artgrain with the following settings: 40, 40, 170, Highlights, 1

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Step 32. Effects-3D Effects-Inner Bevel with the following settings: #8, 6, 2, 6, 0, 0, White, 315, 50, 30

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Step 33. Effects-3D Effects-Drop Shadow with the following settings: 5, 5, 65, 8, Your light color

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Step 34. Repeat Drop Shadow with -5, -5

Step 35. Select None

Step 36. New raster layer & add your watermark

Step 37. Layers-Merge All(Flatten)

Step 38. Export as jpg

Background

Step 39. Open the image that you minimized earlier

Step 40. Adjust-Blur-Motion Blur with the following settings: Angle at 45 & Strength at 100

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Step 41. Resize to 200×200-Sharpen if needed

Step 42. Effects-Image Effects-Seamless Tiling at Default Settings

Step 43. New Raster layer

Step 44. Flood fill with your light color

Step 45. Lower opacity to about 50% to make it text friendly

Step 46. Layers-Merge All(Flatten)

Step 47. Export as jpg and assemble in Letter Creator.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please link back to be at http://taggersheaven.iwarp.com

Thank you to the following people from CCC Testers who tested this tutorial for me: Rozie, Emanuele, Trudi, and Cathy.

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