Gradient Swirly Strips Tutorial

Gradient Swirly Strips tag tutorial
by Ladyjai3Creations
April 2020

what you need
a tube

i am using The Librarians by
© Lorri Kajenna 

You can purchase this cute tube at PicsforDesign.com

filters

FM file tools- blend emboss

eye candy 4000- swirl

foto frame

muras meister copies- line

font i used- Librarian 

you can get this at fonts101.com

Open a new image 600 x 400

open your tube eye dropper tool and take a light color for foreground and darker for background

i took a light brown and dark brown colors from the one kitty

make your background a gradient, linear angle 24 repeats 2 invert checked, everything else default

flood fill with gradient, layers duplicate, image mirror reduce layer properties to 37-50, merge down

FM file tools- blend emboss (default)

eye candy 4000 swirl wispy (default)

c&p the background from tube (resize) bring layer properties down to 49 repeat eye candy 4000 swirl wispy (default)

rectangle tool draw a thin rectangle from top to bottom convert to raster, muras meister copies line set the top number to 4 all other setting default

select all float defloat, repeat the eye candy 4000 swirl wispy select none, DS (same settings) , FM file tools blend emboss (default)

c&p all your tubes and kind of place them in center of tag sharpen add DS to all parts of tubes

merge all tubes down once together move your tube to where you like

AAA frames foto frame set width to 10 and opacity to 80 do this to each layer of your tag

when you get to your last layer, select all selections modify contract by 10 selections invert then selections promote selection to layer select none

layers arrange bring to top blend mode screen

image add borders symetric checked 2 dark brown, 2 light brown then 1 black

then resize to what you like, add copyright info, license info, & your own taggers watermark. merge all flatten save as jpg

thats it! thanks for trying my tutorial i hope you enjoyed it and it was easy to follow

Gradient Swirly  Strips Tag Tutorial
by Ladyjai3Creations
April 2020