Lady Smiles' Stargazer

This tutorial is my own creation and is © Lady Smiles Graphics.
Any similarities to any other tutorials are purely coincidental.
Since it is my own creation, I would ask you to respect me
and not copy my work or claim it as your own.

Some of the elements in this tutorial were found on the web.
If they are yours and copyrighted, please let me know
and I will gladly correct the situation.

1. Open white+pink_daylily.jpg image. You can get it here. Duplicate it (shift +D at same time) and close the original.

2. Open zuzzanna_mask36 and minimize it on your workspace. Get it here.

3. Creat a new raster layer and flood fill with Gold%20Foil.jpg. Get it here.
Use the Gold20%Foil.jpg as the pattern for your foreground color.

4. Go to Masks, New, From Image, Source Window -- zuzzanna_mask36, Create mask from -- Source Luminance,
Invert mask data -- unchecked.

5. Go to Selections, Select All, Modify, Contract by 25 pixels, Selections invert.
Flood fill with #F68573.
Go to Selections, modify, contract by 3 pixels, flood fill with #9CB10C.

6. Go to Selections, modify, expand by 3 pixels.
Go to Effects, 3D effects, inner bevel with the settings below.

7. Deselect (control D). Add a new raster layer. Apply text with the settings below.

Convert to raster. Move layer position, if necessary.

8. On same layer Selections, Select All, Selections, Float.
Effects, Drop Shadow with the settings below. Color is black.

Repeat Drop Shadow. Deselect.

9. Merge all layers (flatten).

10. Image, Resize as desired. Effects, Sharpen. Export as .jpg optimized image with compression set at 15.