Let's get started
1. Open your image, press shift D to duplicate your image. Close your original.
2. Open your tile you just made and minimise it.
3. Select 2 complimenting colours from your graphic, I used #2C0D15 and #A56840. Choose gradients from your styles palette #1-Foreground-Background.
4. Working on your duplicated image, add a symmetrical border of 3. Click with magic wand, and apply your gradient.
5. Add Filter Factory A Pool Shadow with the following settings - do not deselect
6. Add an inner bevel with the following settings
7. Invert your selection and add a cutout using the following settings
8. Add a symmetrical border of 15, select with magic wand. Open your gradient style box check the invert gradient box. (We will be toggling between inverted and plain gradient throughout this tutorial - each invert will give you the opposite colour effect)
9. Repeat steps 5 to 7.
10. Add a symmetrical border of 3 - invert your gradient again and apply. Repeat steps 5 to 7.
11. Add a symmetrical border of 33 - invert your gradient and apply.
12. Open Eye Candy 4000 and apply the following Swirl settings
13. Open FM Tile Tools and choose Blend Emboss with the following settings - do NOT deselect!
14. Add another raster layer from your layer palette, and apply the mask. Flood fill with your gradient. Delete mask.
15. Go to layer palette and duplicate your mask layer. Turn off visibility on your background layer and merge the 2 masked layers visible.
16. Add a drop shadow using the following settings
17. Resize your masked layer ONLY to 98%
18. Repeat steps 4 to 10, and we're all done!
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