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What are they? Basically, C4D's and Fractals are used to give your graphics more "flow." So now you're wonder what's the difference between the two? C4D's are more 3D-ish and they're usually more colorful that Fractals. Fractals, on the other hand, don't look 3D. They look like little lines put together in a way. XD Below are a picture of a fractal and C4D. See if you can guess which is which without looking at the credits =)

ON WITH THE TUTORIAL....

For this tutorial I will be using this image of Hilary Duff.

I used a fractal that I made which can be found on this page. I pasted it as a new layer and rotated it so it looks like this:

Now, look in your layers box and change the mode to Color Dodge. You can also change it to Linear Dodge if you want, but I will be using Color Dodge. Your image should now look like the image on the left.

The fractal is covering the image. That's a problem huh? Take the eraser and erase the part of the fractal that's covering the image. It should look something like this after you're done.

If you're happy with the image you can save it. The next few steps in italics are optional.

Do you see the pink parts toward the bottom? Follow the following steps to fix that.
Duplicate the first layer and change it's mode to color. Then, put the duplicated layer on the very top. Your layer box should look something like this: