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*Step 1 Open the supplied picture. Get your selection tool and select Freehand Selection Take over these settings: Now it's the purpose that you select the lady out of the background. Put de first mark (click left) for instance left under and go up then. Every time you click left there will be a point in your line, that will fix your line Try to work precise. With Delete on your keyboard you can go back one step or more if necessary. If you've never (or just a few times) done this, its a very difficult job End on the point where you've started so your selection can close.Click with right when you're finished and the selection will be around the lady.

*Step 2 Let your selections where it is and go to: File - Export - Custom Brush. Give your brush a name and fill in the number 32 as step size. At author you can fill in your own name and let the rest empty Now your picture will be at the Brush tips automatically. *Do you want a tube of the lady also? Let your selection stand where it is, click with right into the selection and choose copy. Click somewhere in the gray work area with right and choose paste as a new layer. Then - File - Export - Custom Brush and give it a name.

*Step 3 Now you can close all pictures of the lady. Open a new image 400x400 pixels. Foreground color at #79bbf3 Background color at #808080 Foreground color on gradient Foreground - Background Choose Style Linear (first square) and set the angle on 45, Repeats on 0 Flood fill the image with the gradient. Effects - Texture effects- Blinds (6, 24, mark horizontal and light from left top, color is black) Step 4 Add a new raster layer. Background color on red. Go to the selection tool and create a big square on your image. Leave some space on all sides, and some more space at the upperside. Flood fill the selection with the gradient. Effects - Texture effects - Blinds (6, 24, mark light from left top, color is white) Effects - Geometric effects - Skew (horizontal, 25, color black) Selections - select none Now select the both black corners with your magic wand. By holding SHIFT you can select them both. Flood fill the both corner with the gradient. Effects - texture effects - blinds (6, 24, mark light from left top, color is black) Image - Resize - 40%. Mark resample using and choose bicubicMark Lock aspect ratio tooDo not mark resize all layers! Now drag your resized square to the left upper corner Click in your layer palette on the layer with the square and choose duplicate Drag this square to the right upper corner Duplicate this square in your layer palette too Image - Mirror Image - Flip Image - resize - 70% Drag this square so, that it overlap the both other squares. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow (1-1-65-1) Add a drop shadow to the the other squares too, but repeat the drop show here with a minus for the horizontal and the vertical.

*Step 4 Add a new raster layer Layers - arrange - bring to top Make black your foreground color Go to the tool paint brush and search in the settings to the lady that you've made Click with left in your image and the lady will appear. Because you put her on a new layer, you can move her. Drag her to the corner left under

*Stap 5 Add a new raster layer. Make white your foreground color. Select your text tool (A) en search for a nice font at the settings Create as Floating, the direction is horizontal and down Type the text "Greetings" in the first red square. Make sure it fits. I used the font Charlesworth, size 16 Let the selection around the characters stand and select your Raster Deform Tool. Take the first option, Deform Now there will be a window around your characters. When you go over it with your mouse on the right site, you will get two round arrows. Click there with left and you can rotate your letters slope (pff, I hope I translate this alright) You probably get a mention that it must first be a normal layer, you can answer yes. If your text is how you like it, then click at the hand (pan) and everything is normal again Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow (1-1-65-1) Do this drop shadow 2 times Go back to your text tool en type the word "from" and drag in to the middle square. You can let this one straight, but you must do the step with the drop shadow. In the third square you type your own name Go to the Raster Deform tool and deform your text again, but now the other way Add the drop shadow again Layers - Merge - merge all (flatten) en resize if you want too Your creation is finished.Now you know how to make a tube and a brush and how the deform works. I really hope that you've learned something And I hope that my translation is readable. Please mail me if I've made mistakes?