Bunney's All American Heart

Tutorial

Add a new layer and name this layer back. Then go to layers, arrange, send to bottom. Your layers palette should look like this. 

Change your foreground (styles) color to the dark blue you used for your blue layer on your flag. I am using #000080. Now flood fill your image with the dark blue like this.

These next steps could get confusing, I hope I don't loose anyone. Highlight your heart layer, Using your magic wand select the area around your heart. Your entire image plus your heart needs to be selected, now with the marching ants still around your heart, highlight your back layer. We need to be on the back layer for these next steps.

Now go to filters, plug-in filters, Dragonfly, Sinedots and use these settings.

Now while still on your back layer, go to layers add a new raster layer and name this layer back 2. Now add the same dragonfly sinedots filter used above. click ok. Selections, select none, then to image flip. Now go to colors, colorize and use these settings.

This is what you should have now.

Now clicking back on your back layer (the blue background) go to effects illumination effects, sunburst and use these settings.

This is what your image should look like at this point.

Remember your image will be larger and show more detail then the one shown above. Make sure you are still on your back layer and go to effects plug-in filters, VM Natural, stardust and use these settings. 

Your filter preview will show the preview panel on the left side, I cut this out for download time. Your image should now look like this

If you will go on to page 4. We will finish up and add the frame.

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