duplicating layers moving and merging till I have a full page.
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first warp.
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further warping
the first on the left.
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Here you can see the word layer at the top. This was selected and a gradient placed on another layer below it(layer 2) the background layer then had a separate similar gradient which allows a slight difference to show up the words and still give the appearance of fading off into the distance with the help of the white gradient layer in between.