Making an Infusion pt 2

[h1]Making an Infusion Part 2[/h1]
In this tut we'll finish the bloodbag by adding some drains and something to make it hang on to.
Well here we go:

No really lets start:

take 2 eggs and blend them with...
Wrong tut sorry.

Ok so if you followed pt 1 of this tut you should have gotten something like this:

Now lets add some old skool metal rings to make it hang on to.
make a eliptical selection and add it with black.
Still having the eliptical selection go to select => Modify => Contract
Now contract the selection by 6 pixels. Now delete this smaller selection from your white elips.
Deselect by pressing ctrl+D.
You should end up with something like this:

Now add these blending options to the ring:

and now we've got a pretty metal ring

but when we place the bag back in the scene the ring is just in front of the bag.
So duplicate the ring layer (ctrl+J) name it ring copy blending, hide the original.
Now add a new layer to the scene. Select the new empty layer and the ring copy layer and merge them (ctrl+E). Call this layer ring merge
Duplicate this layer aswell and hide the original.

Now select the bloodbag by holding ctrl and left click on the bloodbag layer. Now use the square selection tool to cut half the selection by holding alt. You should have a selection like this now:

Delete the selection from your " ring merge copy" layer. And voila!

Now copy the "ring merge" layer, place this copy above the 1st ring and use the same trick as above to make the rings intersect.

Now let's add a drain. Use the pen tool make a line coming from the bag to where ever you want it to go!
Select a 19 pixel hard round brush. Now stroke the path with white.
Now to make it look like it's attached to the bag add a triange filled with white on this layer between the bag and the drain.
Copy this layer, and add the same blending options to these layers as you did with the bloodbag itself. But change the blend mode of the gradient overlay from multiply to linear burn and the angle to -180.

You should now have something like this:

smudge the drain a bit for a smoother effect

It's time to make a metal bar for the rings to hang on to.

Using the square selection tool make a white beam running through the upper ring and add these blending options:

and a 2 px stroke
Fill type gradient: Black 0%, white 50% and black 100%

Now make the ring and the beam intersect as you did before.
This is what I've got now:

Ok to make the rings from going anywhere we'll add some simple detail in the form of a small crossbar.

Use the rounded rectangle tool to create a small beam like this:

Now instead of making our own blending go to styles => webstyles and choose mercury (a metallic style 3rd row from below)
just change the drop shadow to:
opacity : 100%
angle : 90
distance: 4
spread: 8
size: 10

Now duplicate this layer and place it behing the beam and a bit lower.

Just add some fitting scenery and you're done!

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