- Preparation
Foreground color = #665b53
,background color = BLACK
Change foreground color into gradient and choose a Foreground//background gradient with these settings:

This is your material palette to start:

- File – New – New Image
Click right in the color box and choose the gradient
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- Effects - reflection-effects - kaleidoscope with these settings:

- Adjust - blur - radial blur:

This is the result:

- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects - Plugins - Unlimited 2.0 - Andrew's Filter Collection 57- Dotty Dotty:

- Activate your Layer palette and decrease the opacity into 35, blend mode: Overlay:

- Layers - new Raster Layer
- Flood fill with the gradient
- Layers - new mask layer – from image and choose:

- Layers - merge - merge group
- Effects – Texture Effects - Fur

- Activate the Layer palette and decrease the opacity into 75% or to your choice
This is the result:

- Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen (you may prefer to skip if you use different colors)
- Layers - new Raster Layer
- Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk and choose
selection @nn_030410_Selection001_Mirthe_tdstudio:

- Flood fill the selection with the gradient
- Selections – Select None
- Effects - Reflection-Effects - Feedback:

- Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
- Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow:

this is your result:

- Activate the tube kitty-gala-punk-small.pspimage
Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste as new layer on your working area
- Effects - Image Effects - Offset:

- Layers - Duplicate
- Adjust - blur – Gaussian blur: radius: 12
- Layers - Arrange – Move down
- Layers - merge - merge all (Flatten)
- Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto frame:

- Layers - new Raster Layer
- Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk and choose
selection @nn_030410_Selection002_Mirthe_tdstudio

- Change foreground gradient into white:

- Zoom in to fill the selection
Settings for the flood fill tool: Match Mode = None

- Layers - new Raster Layer
- Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk and choose
selection @nn_030410_Selection003_Mirthe_tdstudio

- Flood fill with white
- Decrease the opacity to 22% in the Layer palette (if you use different colors – choose what suits you best))
This is the result:

- Layers - new Raster Layer
- Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk and choose
selection @nn_030410_Selection004_Mirthe_tdstudio

- Flood fill once more with white and Select None afterwards
- Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow:

- Layers - merge – merge all (flatten)
- Effects - Plugins - Richard Rosenman - Solid border:
Color White

- Repeat twice Window - Duplicate, you have 3 different images now
We will give each three a name
- Work 1: Layers – properties - rename FRAME 100 PX:

Take the second, rename VERTICAL TILE
and the last - rename ORIGINAL
You have this

- Activate the first "FRAME 100PX"
Image - Resize

- Effects - Plugins - Richard Rosenman - Solid border:
Color White

minimize for later use
- Activate the second "VERTICAL TILE"
Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Unplugged X:

- Edit - Copy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
minimize
- Activate the last "ORIGINAL"
Image – add borders:
Color white

- Edit - Paste as new layer on your image "ORIGINAL" (the image is still in the memory of your PC)
- Effects - Image Effects - Offset:

- Layers - Duplicate
- Image - Mirror
- Layers - merge - merge down
You have this:

- Activate Layer palette and decrease the opacity to 40%
- Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (do it twice)

- Activate text @nn_030410_text_mirthe_tdstudio.pspimage
(TIP: if you use other colors; Image - negative it is black now) afterwards - File - export - custom brush. Now you can use it as a brush and apply in the color you want
Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste as new layer on your working area and move see print screen (top right):

- Layers - Duplicate
and move again(bottom left):

- Layers- - new Raster Layer
- Selections – load/save selection – load selection from disk and choose
selection @nn_030410_Selection005_Mirthe_tdstudio

- Flood fill with black background color - Select None
- Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow:

- Activate file @nn_030410_balk_mirthe_tdstudio.pspimage (we made this bar in the lesson Freya)
(colorize if necessary or use the color changer)
Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste as new layer on your working area
- Effects - reflection-Effects - rotating mirror:

- Image - flip
- Effects - Image Effects - Offset:

- Activate 'FRAME 100 PX", Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste as new layer on your working area and move:

- Layers - Duplicate and move again:

This is the result

- Layers - merge - merge down
- Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow:

- Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)
- Effects - Plugins - Richard Rosenman - Solid border:
Color black

Repeat with these settings (color white):

- Effects - Plugins - unlimited 2.0:

- For the background, activate the pspfile @nn_040410_background_mirthe_tdstudio.pspimage
fill with a color of your choice and Select None
- Save both as a JPG,
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