Moonlit Silhouette

This tutorial is the property of hollys closet.com and has been written as an assignment for Winni's How To Write Tutorials Lessons. You are welcome to link to it but do not claim it as your own.

What you'll need:

Now we're ready so let's begin.

Step 1

Open the mask and your image to your workspace and minimize the mask.
Click on your image and Shift/D. Close the original
On the copy Image/Resize to 300x300. Adjust/Sharpen/Unsharp mask


1, 55, 5
Right Click/Promote Background Layer.
Shift/D and minimize the copy.

Step 2

Image/Picture frame/Edge circles 01. Frame Canvas and Frame outside picture selected. Click OK.
Hide the picture layer and select the frame layer.
Activate the magic wand and select the frame.


Replace/RGB Value 0 Tolerance,Contiguous, 0 Feather, Anti-alias, Outside.

Selections/Invert
Floodfill with Black
Selections/Select None
Select the center with the Magic Wand and floodfill with white. Selections/Select None
Edit/Copy/. Paste as a new image. Save as frame mask and minimize.
Delete the frame layer in your image.

Step 3

Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image.


Layers/Merge/Merge Group.

Layers/New Raster Layer two times.
Select the picture layer. Layers/Arrange/Bring to Top and hide it.
In your materials palette select two colors from your image as foreground and background. My picture is dark so I went to an area near the moon and then moved to a lighter blue color. I did the same with the horizon color. The colors I used are #91aec5 and #dca042.
Floodfill the bottom layer with one color and the second with the other.
Highlight the second layer. Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image.



Layers/Merge/Merge Group.

Step 4

Selections/Select All
Image/Add Border/8 background color. You can select and change the color in the add border box by right clicking on the color box like this:

Selections/Invert
Effects/3D/Inner Bevel


10, 0, 3, 0, 0, white, 315, 50, 30

Selections/Invert
Effects/3D/Cutout


-5, -5, 100, 12, black, fill interior not selected

Step 5

Selections/Select All
Image/Add Border/30 foregound color.
Selections/Invert
On your materials palette, click on your foreground and change to pattern. Under Open Images find the minimized original image.


Floodfill the selected area.

Effects/3D/Inner Bevel.
Selections/Select All
Images/Add Border/8 background color
Selections/Invert
Effects/3D/Inner Bevel


Step 6

On the materials palette change the foregound color back to the original.
Selections/Select All
Image/Add Border/25 foreground color.
Selections/Invert
Effects/Reflection Effects/Pattern


Effects/3D/Inner Bevel

Selections/Select All
Images/Add Border/8 background color
Selections/Invert
Effects/3D/Inner Bevel
Selections/Select None

Step 7

Image/Resize the longest side 400.

Open your Text Tool.
Make sure you have the two contrasting colors from your picture for the foreground and background on your materials palette. After you try it you may want to switch the colors for a more pleasing effect.


BackhandScripts 36, align center, anti-alias sharp, stroke width 1

Chose a title or write your name.
Resize the text by pulling or pushing the nodes to get it just the way you want it.
Objects/Align/Horiz. Center in Canvas
Layers/Convert to Raster Layer

Effects/3D/Inner Bevel/


Bevel 2, 7, 24, 6, leave other settings as they were.
Step 8

Add your watermark and any copyright information on separate layers so you can move them and can lower the opacity on either to make them blend in while remaining readable.

Save or Export your finished tag in jpg.

And that's the end.
Hope you enjoyed it and like the results.

Here is a test sample of my tutorial. The photo is of the garden in Georgia of my friend, Lori London.