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You will need a pretty floral background. Choose a color from the background for the plain square. And a rose gif or another flower gif of choice, with a transparent bg. Garden of Eve
And Dekor Lines Ding from MsM's DIngs At IM, make an xc, any size you'd like, meta=none, paint it white, then composite your background using MULTIPLY. Output and save as a jpg Make another xc, a size that will fit well with the 1st one. Paint it the complimentary color you chose. Output and save as jpg. Grab the urls to the above 2 images and head back to IM. Make a 3rd xc, sized to fit the above 2 squares. Leave plenty of extra border around it, so that when you do the blur it doesn't run off the sides. Paint it the color you want for your background. I used white. Comp the floral square using DstOut, then comp the plain square using DstOut. Stagger it on the background - see example at top of page. Make sure you write down the co-ordinates you used for both comps. Next page, scroll down to paint function. Choose replace, fuzz=9999, color and #404040 for the color. Paint in the cutout areas. Go to effects, and choose BLUR. 10x10 in the parameter box. Back to composite. Composite the floral square first, using OVER. Change the co-ordinates by 5-7 pixels. For example, if you comp'd it center +0+0, for the DstOut comp, change co-ords to -7-7. Then comp the plain square, making the same adjustment in the co-ordinates. Remember, negative #s move the image left and up, plus #s move the image right and down. You can go in any direction you want. Once you're happy with it, output and save. Grab your rose image and resize it if necessary, so that it fits nicely somewhere on your tag. Take it and the tag back to IM. Comp the rose DstOut. No blur this time, cause it would blur the whole image. Comp the rose using over, adjusting the co-ords to match the square co-ords for the shadow. Output and save. Now grab the Dekor Lines Ding from MsM's, ccp it into your find box. Back to IM with the tag. Go to annotate. Choose any design you'd like from the ding. Make your stroke colors the same as your square or bg, and stagger them around the tag. Use rotate to position them at any angle. By using the same colors that are in the tag, you can have something that looks like fancy drawn lines. Annotate your name - if you want the dropshadow effect, use #404040 for the first annotation. Then annotate again using a different color. Adjust co-ordinates to match your other drop shadows. Club Chocolata |