Rippled Stones

My tutorials are a guideline only, feel free to put your own spin to it :)

Materials needed:
A tube, I used one from ©GiadaC, available at www.digitalartheaven.com

Filters used:
Mura's Meister: Copies
Eye Candy5: Textures
AAAFrames: Fotoframe

Let's begin
Open a new image 600x250
Copy your tube and paste as a new layer
Mura's meister: copies -> Wallpaper rotate, default settings.
Adjust, Blur, Motion blur: Angle 135, Strength 75%

Duplicate this layer.
on the duplicate:
Effects, plugins, EyeCandy5, Textures, Stone wall.
At the settings tab choose: Blue Stone
At the basic tab choose a vibrant color from your tube as stone color and a light color from your tube for the mortar color.

Set the blend mode for this layer to screen ( or any other blend mode that fits your liking)
Layers, merge down

Copy your tube again and paste as a new layer.
Move to the right, and resize if needed, add drop shadow.
Now crop your whole image.

Activate the merged brick wall layer, with your selection tool :rectangle, draw a selection from left to right that will only contain the stones, just stop when you are getting near your tube.
Selections: Promote selection to layer, select none.
Effects: Distortion effects, Ripple and apply these settings:
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Copy your tube and paste as a new layer.
Image, mirror and place it on the left side of your tag.
​Set the blend mode of this layer to screen ( or any other blend mode that fits your liking)
Layers, merge visible
​Effects, plugins, AAAframes, fotoframe.
Use the default setting but the first slider(width) must be set on 10.

Add the copyright and license info, your name and done :)
I hope you liked this tutorial

Sandra
​8 May 2016