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this This is my first tutorial ever and I'm using photoshop 7, I hope its not too confusing.
1. prepare your base however you like, sharpen etc so it looks how you'd like it to before starting out i started with this:
2. duplicate your base twice, set the first one to screen 80% opacity, desaturate the second one and set to soft light 100%:
3. make a new raster layer, flood fill with #061A2D and set to exclusion 100%:
4. now, duplicate the desaturated soft light layer and drag it to the top:
5. make another new layer and flood fill with #73DDFF set to color burn 100%:
6. yet another raster layer, flood fill with #FFB0ED set to color burn 100%:
7. now go to the shape tool, make sure you have rounded rectangle chosen and that its set to paths and not shapes (see
here):
8. right click and choose "make selection", then inverse the selection, make a new layer and fill it with white:
9. lastly, i resized my image, sharpened, and added some text in the font "jane austen", merged my layers, and here is the finished product: