***DISCLAIMER***

This tutorial is from my own imagination

Any similiarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

This tutorial is for those who have a good working knowledge of  Corel X14

Supplies

Tube of choice :- I'm using a soon to be released Arthur Crowe tube called Sexy Red 

Collab tagtemplate by Tonya & Bru.... HERE

Mask WSL 84 HERE

Font - Inspiration (this is a pay font) so I cannot supply 

Plug In's used Xero Porcelain & Fritillary

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I'm gonna used a couple of abbreviations (save repeat myself lol)

C & P - copy & paste

S,SA,F,DF - Select, Select All, Float, De-Float

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Here we go:-------->

Drop Shadow 1.2.50.5 (unless otherwise stated)

Duplicate your template - Shift D - close the orginal

Image - canvas size 900 x 900 pixels (I like a large canvas to work on, we'll resize later)

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Go to the backgroud layer and flood fill with white

and delete the info layer

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C & P your tube of choice and using your dropper tool

choose a colour from your tube I used #e81b22

then close off your tube layer by clicking the eye in your layer pallette

(we'll work on this later)

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Go to the dotted background and highlight

created a new raster layer and flood fill with the dark colour you just selected

back to your dotted background and S.SA.F.DF

leave the ants marching lol - and go back to your flood fill layer

Selections - Invert - Delect - Select None 

Image - Resize - 90% smartsize checked

then delete the orginal dotted background layer

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Click on the gray oval layer and highlight

and create a nice gradient using linear - angle 136 - repeats 5

I used #e81b22 (foreground) and black #000000 (background)

S,SA,F,DF create a new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient

Select none

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Click on the gradient rectangle S,SA,F,DF

create new raster layer and flood fill with your gradient 

but swap your foreground/background this time

Select none 

go to Effects - plug ins - Xero Fritillary

and using these settings

Granularity 5

Aggression 30

Tesselation 10

Variation 30

click ok and delete the gradient rectangle layer

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Highlight you black rectangle layer

S,SA,F,DF and create a new raster layer

Flood fill this with a new gradient

I used sunburst repeats 5 - link center points checked - select none

Now we're gonna used our tube

so click on the eye in your layer pallette so you can see her

drag your tube layer down the pallette until she's just above the gradient layer you just created

and move to the left of the rectangle, duplicate - 

Image - flip horizontal/ mirror and position to the right of the retangle

repeat this process of duplicating and positioning your tube

resizing until the rectangle in completely full and your happy with how it looks

Merge down all your tube layers

back to your gradient layer now (raster 4)

S,SA,F,DF click back onto your merged tube layer

Selection - Invert - Delete

Duplicate your tube layer - Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius 3

change the blend mode to soft light

go back to your orginal merged tube layer and change the blend mode to luminance legacy

opacity 45

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Highlight your text filled layer

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast - move the slider to -255

change the blend mode to overlay - opacity 50

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Highlight your text unfilled layer

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast and move slider to -255

Opacity 50

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On the arrow border

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast and move slider to -255

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Highlight X-glitter background

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast and move slider to 255

then Adjust - add noise - Gaussian & Monochrome checked - 50% noise

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Highlight the Purple X layer

S,SA,F,DF create a new raster layer

and flood fill with your gradient 

linear - angle 136 - repeats 5 - Select none

delete purple X layer

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Highlight Pixel Text

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast and move slider to 255

Change opacity tp 40

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Highlight wordart Glitter back

Go to Adjust - Brightness & Contrast and move slider to 255

then Adjust - add noise - Gaussian & Monochrome checked - 50% noise

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Highlight Wordart

S,SA,F,DF

create new raster layer and flood fill with #e81b22 - Select none

Go to Effects - 3D effects - Inner Bevel

Use these settings :-

Bevel 2

Width 11

Smoothness 25

Depth 7

Ambience -20

Shininess 35

Colour white

Angle 135

Intensity 35

Elevation 50

Then delete orginal wordart layer

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C & P your tube of choice again 

and position to the right of your tag....drag down pallette layer

to below the wordart and wordart glitter layers 

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Merge down your word art layers and duplicate

drag this duplicate layer under your tube layer

then go back to your orginal word art layer and carefully

delete some of it so it appears your tube is stepping over the wordart

(see my tag for reference)

back to your copy of wordart and drop shadow 1.3.70.3

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Highlight your tube layer and duplicate

On duplicate - Adjust - Blur - gaussian blur - radius 3 

Effects - Plug Ins - Xero - Porcelain - default settings

On Orginal add drop shadow 1.1.50.10

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go to your bottom layer (background) and create a new raster layer

flood fill with your gradient

Layers - new mask layer - from image and from drop down box select WSL 84

Apply - merge group - resize 65% add position to the left and up a little 

duplicate and move duplicate layer to the right and down a little

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When your happy

delete your background layer and merge visable

Image - resize - resize all layers to 700 pixels - ok

add your cr,  tagger info and name and saved as a PNG

Phew!!! your done

I would love to see anything you create