Tennessee Thunderstorm

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 16, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Plugins

Krustys FX Vol II

Xenofex Constellation

Mura Meister Cloud

The tubes I used Tennessee Thunderstorm (PTE5637) & Roberta (PTE5602) are by Roman Zaric, you can purchase these tubes from PTE here

The font I used is called Tagettes

I used size 36 & 48

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply krustys pattern P

You'll need to play with the colors

Paste your main horse tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Activate your rectangle shape tool

Foreground green, background null, width 18

Draw a frame around your tube

Align center

Resize a bit if needed

Add an inner bevel

Move to below your horse

Using your magic wand click inside your frame

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a medium or dark blue

Move to below your horse layer

Select all>float>defloat

Apply xenfofex constellation

Click on settings then on medium

Click on the keep original image box

Do Not Deselect

Apply mura meister cloud

Preset on thin clouds, uncheck the light & background boxes, change amount to 60

Do Not Deselect

Add a new raster layer

Activate your picture tube tool, scale 50

Add some grass, make it hilly looking

Add a new raster layer

Add a tree from your tubes tool

Add drop shadow

Repeat for each new tube you want to add

Merge these when you're done

Add a drop shadow to your frame

Change layer properties to hard light

Add a new raster layer

Using your tubes tool, scale 50, add a flower

Position on the upper left of your frame

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Paste your close up horse as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position lower left corner

Paste your other tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position lower right corner

(I mirrored mine)

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your first color

Select all

Contract 12

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Change layer properties to hard light

Activate the floodfilled layer from your frame

Duplicate 2 times

Apply xenofex lightening

Click on settings then on distant lightening

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking on the random seed button each time

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Merge all

Save as jpg and you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

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Result by Kaye W