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With the Pen Tool still selected, right click the Path and click Make Selection…, use the following settings:

Now you should be left with a selection like so:

Again with the Gradient Tool make a White to Transparent gradient inside of the selection. My gradient was from under the bottom of the selection, to above the top of the selection:

Change the Layer Mode for this layer to Soft Light and lower the opacity to 50%.

Now the last step..
Create a new layer Layer > New > Layer of course.
With the Brush Tool make 2 (two) blobs near the left side like so:

That gives it an extra touch of realism
Thanks for reading, you can download the PSD from here.

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Posted on Friday, August 25th, 2006 at 8:13 pm in Graphic Effects.