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I have been hunting down all of my tutorials for a few years now,
and finally I was able to locate them just the other day.
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Most of them are missing links to supplies, whether it is 
because an artist or designer has retired, tagger's blog has 
been deleted etc. In this case, please treat the tutorial
as inspiration. As I update each tutorial, I will slowly re-release them.
ALL Tutorials before 2024 are AI FREE, meaning no AI was used.
and all newer tutorials will be labelled accordingly.

Any and all Tutorials posted within this site
are of my own creation.
Any similarities to any other is purely coincidental.
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Some tips...
I use abbreviations in my tutorials, 
the more common ones are below:
C&P~Copy and Paste
RS~Re-size
DS~Drop Shadow
MW~Magic Wand

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This tutorial was written by Chasunicorn

on January 2, 2013.

*Updated November 2025*

Supplies:

Tube by Alicia Mujica

ACDiva's Exclusive Tube

Filters:

MuRa's Meister~ Copies

Drop Shadow:

Whatever you prefer

Canvas Size:

Avatar: 150x150

Banner: 600x200

Banner:

*Open you canvas and flood fill with a color

from your tube...I am using #bb3b07

*C&P a Close Up (I am using a Chilipepper which is

part of the tube) MuRa's Meister~ Copies

Wallpaper(Rotate) on default settings...Duplicate this layer

Add a 10% Gaussian Blur to the bottom copy and the top copy

Change the Blend Mode to Muliply

*Draw out a Square with your Preset Tool...Any Size is fine

Give your square a 45% Rotate...Duplicate 2x's...Create a line with your

Diamonds...Merge the Left and Right Diamonds and slide the

layer under the middle Diamond

On the Merged Diamonds change the Blend Mode to Burn and the

Middle Diamond to Overlay

*Apply a Close up to the Side Diamonds...Change the Blend Mode to

Hard Light and Drop the Opacity to 78%

*Add your Main Focal Tube to the center

*Add a new Raster Flood Fill with a Darker Color from your Tube

I am using #5b0200...Add a small amount of Noise...

Select All/Modify/Contract 3

Avatar:

*Close out the Border and tube layers

*Highlight the Middle Diamond layer...Copy Merged to a

150x150 canvas...RS 85%

*Add your tube and Border as you did for the Banner Tag

Add your name, Copyright info and Watermark

Re-Size your tag if you want to and you are done


 

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