Blended Image Tutorial #29 by Marleschka. ( 1 ) Open a new 800 x 500 transparent Image. ( 2 ) With your foreground on #ffd05e and your background on #714c36 make a foreground background gradient with these settings, style linear, angle 128 repeats 1, invert not checked and flood fill your image. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur set at 30. Image Mirror. ( 3 ) New layer. Place your foreground on pattern and find the pattern_blend29, Angle 0 and Scale 100 and floodfill your layer. Place the blend mode on Luminance L and lower the opacity to 20. ( 4 ) New Layer, Selections Load/Save Selection, Load Selection From Disc and find looking. Apply with these settings, Source Luminance checked and Replace Selection checked. ( 5 ) Flood fill this layer with your gradient. Adjust Blur, Gaussian Blur with the same settings as before. Keep the selection. ( 6 ) New Layer, copy the tube sunset_blend29 and Paste into selection. Layer merge merge down. Keep the selection. ( 7 ) Layers Load/Save Mask from disc, Load mask from disc and find zuzzanna_mask32 and apply with these settings, Source Luminance, Fit to layer checked, Invert Transparency checked and Hide All mask checked. Layers merge, merge group. Keep the selection. ( 8 ) Effects 3D Effects drop shadow, V & H 10, Opacity 50, blur 15 and color black, again with V & H at -10. selections, select none. ( 9 ) Take your pen tool with these settings, point to point, create as vector, line solid and width 3. Background color on nul. Foreground on #ffd05e. ( 10 ) Draw a line all the way across the bottom of the curve, layers duplicate, layers convert to raster layer, layers duplicate and image flip. ( 11 ) Go back to your original vector layer. Take your Text Tool set to the font I supplied and size 65, switch your foreground, background colors, foreground on nul, Place your cursor almost in the center and you have the U and write Looking through the eyes of love, or whatever you wish. ( 12 ) Obects, align, horz, Center in Canvas. In your layer pallet, close the eye on New Path of the vector layer and convert to a raster layer and apply the following dropshadow. V & H 2, Opacity 50, blur 15 and color black. (13 ) Copy the tube man and paste as a new layer onto your image. Place him to the very right. (14 ) Copy the tube woman and paste as a new layer onto your image. Place her to the very left. (15 ) Go to your mask layer and with your eraser set to size 90, Hardness 0 and opacity 50 clear away some of the mask from the man and womans faces. Layers merge, merge visible. (16 ) Selections, select all, selections modify by 3, selections invert and floodfill with #ffd05e. (17 ) Place your name on your image if you wish, save as a jpg and you are finished. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.