(diamonds in diamond)
1
. Open Image you chose,
resize it 50% or less depending how large it is
2
. Open new work area
transparent 500 x 500
Keep in mind it will be cropped later
3
. Choose from your image a
dark foreground color and a light background color
Change foreground to foreground/background gradient with the
following settings:
Linear > angle 320 > 0 repeats > invert (so light is
on the bottom left corner)
Flood-fill workspace
4
. copy and paste resized
image as a new layer into workspace
add drop shadow with settings:
V/H
3 > Opacity 70 > Blur 10
(return the original image to normal size for later use ..
click undo)
5
. Adding the shape
Turn your foreground color back to the solid color it was and
turn off the background
Go to shapes and choose Gerruituorm (diamonds in a diamond)
Make shape bigger than original image (see tag for reference)
When happy with the size, convert to raster layer
Add drop shadow … same settings as before
6
. Still on the diamond
layer, choose the magic wand
Select one diamond, then hold shift key and select the rest of
the diamonds
7
. Back to original image
at normal size, copy and paste it to workspace as a new layer
You should have the selected diamonds on top of your image
Move your image around to find the best position to show its
finest details through the diamond shapes
8
. On your layer pallet
your image should be called raster 4, right click and promote to new layer
Delete raster 4 and select none.
Your image should be appearing through the diamonds
On the promoted selection, right click and go to properties,
set opacity to 60%
9
. move raster 2 (small
image) to top and position to your liking
10
. to add embellishing
add new layer to workspace
copy an area from original image to paste into top left corner
add drop shadow .. same settings
repeat last three steps only to past into bottom right corner
11
. position all layers to
your liking
merge all flatten
crop image
12
. adding your text
whatever font works for your image
I used Eye Candy 4000 > glass > glass tubing to
embellish my text
Add drop shadow with same settings
13
. Add a border ...
Image > border
Settings: size 15
Select border with magic wand
Flood fill with dark color from foreground
Go to effects > texture > polished stone
You might want to play with the settings to get what you want,
I sued different settings for two of the tags I made.
For the red tag I used:
Blur > 25
, Detail >
256, Polish > 20, Angle
> 155
Color > light color from background
Merge all flatten
Don’t forget to add any copyright information to your tag
and to add your own watermark
Now you are done! Hope you had fun!
this one was done while writing the tutorial to make sure I
didn't leave any steps out :o)
