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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this lesson you need the following plugins:

Andrew's Filters 48 - Mixing Dots And More Dots

(You have to import this plugin in Filters Unlimited 2.0)

Filters Unlimited 2.0

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 6 tubes - 1 mask - 1 font - 1 animation.

Open the font and minimize it.

Place the mask in your mask folder.

The tubes are by Danomic Fact, DragonBlu, Les Tutos de JuniLau, Monique 42 and NS.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, mask and animation.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

I want to thank all the makers of the beautiful tubes.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #be0a0e (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #131f1f (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient - Sunburst - Repeats 2 - Invert checked - set both Hor to 100 - set both Vert to 94.

Open a transparent image of 650 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask 'SKF_Mask22' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Step 3

Open tube 'NS_35_0709'.

Image - Resize - Height 500 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 65 - Blur 3 - black.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Step 4

Open tube 'DEMONIC FACT MDZ MIST'.

Image - Resize - Height 300 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place him in the lower left corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Step 5

Open tube 'L3E2-07-jan-2008'.

Image - Resize - Height 400 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 6

Open tube 'Tubed by Monique42_F338_misted'.

Image - Resize - Height 300 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the upper left corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 45.

Step 7

Open tube 'DragonBluTube_0609_Handprint'.

Image - Resize - Height 200 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 20 - nothing checked.

Slide the hand a little to the left and up - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Step 8

Open tube 'DragonBluTube_0709_MuseBookBox.

Image - Resize - Height 150 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put it on a nice place.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 9

Activate your Text tool - font Vampire - Size 16 - see image below:

Type your text and put it in the upper right corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 65 - Blur 1 - #810e13 (bright red).

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 20 pixels - background color.

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Andrew's Filters 48 - Mixing Dots And More Dots - default settings.

Selections - Select none.

Step 12

Image - Resize - Width 500 pixels - All layers checked.

Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on October 10, 2009.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

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Translated by Zial on September 24, 2013

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