This tutorial was written on February 1, 2006  by Valerie and is my sole property. You may link to my tutorial or print it out for your own personal use, but you may not claim it as your own. I used the gorgeous work of Lee Seed, thank you for granting me permission :)

What You Need  

PSP 

Tube & font of your choice 

 SBP Pro Coconut ice glass preset (optional)

My Supplies here

Open a 500x500 transparent canvas. 

 Open your tube and your font.  Minimize the font.   

Go to File, Save.  Name  your creation and save it as a .pspimage.  You will be wise to save often.   

Grab your preset shapes tool.  Select the Heart shape. Choose a light color from your tube.  I chose #c69668.  Set this for your background color.   Draw a heart shape up and to the left of the center of the canvas.  Go to layers, rename.  Name this layer Heart1.   

Go back to your background color palette, choose a slightly darker shade of the previous color.  I chose #b579a5. Draw another heart shape, similar size to the previous one.  Place this one down and to the right of the lighter one.

Go to layers, rename.  Name this layer Heart2.   Activate Heart1. Go to Effects, Texture Effects, Polished Stone with the following settings:

Activate Heart2. Repeat the previous step with these settings

Move both hearts to the center of the canvas in the same staggered positions. Activate Heart1.  Go to layers, duplicate, then image, resize by 65%.  Make sure that bicubic is selected and resize all layers is unchecked.
  Move the smaller heart in the middle of Heart1.  Refer to my sample above for placement.   Activate Heart2.  Repeat the previous step.  

 Go to layers, merge visible.   Layers, add new raster layer.  Layers, arrange, send to bottom.  Choose an even darker shade of your color.  I chose #89577c. 

 Set this as your background color as before.   Flood fill the layer. 

  Go to layers, load/save mask, dmsk001 with the following settings:

Layers, merge group.   Open your tube.  Edit, copy, then paste as a new layer on your canvas.  Move to where you want it to be.   Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow with these settings

Activate your merged hearts layer.   Set your color palette foreground to the lighter shade of your color and the color palette background to the darkest shade that you used.   Choose your text tool, create as vector, Cocktail Script, stroke 2, size 100.   Image, rotate, free rotate, right 30.    Move the text so that it isn't covered by your tube.   Add the artist's copyright and your watermark.  Resize as you see fit.  File, save as, save it as a .jpeg.
Here's another example of what to do with the text.

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