This tut was written Dec. 10, 2006 by Boooobaby. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional. You may link to my tuts or print them for your own personal use. Any other usage needs my written permission first.

 

For this tutorial, you will need:

Tube of choice

Brush of choice

Font of Choice - I used Dakota which is a pay font so I can't share

Filters Unlimited. Download a free trial HERE

Toadies Filter Download HERE

Preset Shape HERE

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Lets get started!!!

 

Unzip and install the preset shape to your PSP Preset Shapes folder

Open a new image 600 x 500.

Floodfill with white.

Foreground color Pink (#e68282).

Background color Black.

 

Select your preset shape set to Little Gidding 10, line width 16 and draw out your shape (see mine for size reference).

Convert to raster.

 

Select your magic wand and click in all your Pink areas.

Go to effects, Filters Unlimited, Paper Textures/Striped paper, fine

Intensity 150

Lightness 87

Click apply.

 

Now click on your black area and use the same Filters Unlimited settings as above

Intensity 150

Change the Lightness to 145.

Click apply.

 

Now click inside each of your white squares

(see below example)

 

 

 

Selections, Modify, Expand by 3.

New raster layer and flood this layer with black.

At this point you can add any filter, brushes or grandient to your black background if you wish or just leave it plain. I added the Eye Candy 5 Nature/Water Drops with Default settings but you can skip this part if you like.

 

Again make sure raster 3 is highlighted (this should be the little black boxes you created earlier) and with your magic wand click inside the upper left box.

 

Copy and paste your tube as a new raster layer and place whatever part you want showing. Go to selections, invert then hit delete on your keyboard to remove any unwanted areas.

Add a drop shadow of:

 H/V - 0

Opacity - 50

Blur - 12.00

Color - Black

Repeat above for all your black boxes.

 

Bring your layer 2 to the top (this is your original preset shape) so that your background and tubes are behind your shape.

 

Hide raster 1 (white background) and merge visible.

Resize your merged layer by 85% and duplicate.

On your original merged layer go to effects, toadies, what are you, default settings, click apply.

Duplicate.

Click back on original effects layer and image, rotate right 45 degrees. Image resize 75%.

 

Click on raster 1 then add new layer. Add some brushes of choice.

 

Now copy and paste your tube and bring it to the top and arrange to your liking. Add your favorite drop shadow or the same as we applied above.

 

Add any copyright needed and your signature and you are done.

 

Thank you for trying my tut, enjoy your new tag!

 

 

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