This tutorial is by Angela das Graças, whom I thank for letting me translate her tutorials.

Original here

Tubes

Material

Many thanks to the creators of these materials

> You will need a character tube and a decorative tube

Plugins

Carolaine and Sensibility / CS-LDots
Carolaine and Sensibility / CS-BRectangles
Graphics Plus / White Out
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow

You can find these plugins on the websites of:

Renée
Cloclo

You can also find this tutorial translated into these languages:
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SCRIPT

Notes:
> Open the material / Duplicate (shift+d) / Close the originals
> Change the blend mode of the layers to match their colors. > In older versions of PSP Mirror Horizontal=Mirror / Mirror Vertical=Flip / Pick tool=deformation

1. Open the masks in PSP and minimize
2. Choose two from your tube: a dark one for the foreground and a light one for the background
3. Prepare a Linear gradient

4. Open a new transparent image with 1000x800px
5. Paint the image with the gradient
6. Effects / plugins / Carolaine and Sensibility / CS_LDots

7. Effects / user Defined Filter / Emboss 3

8. Effects / plugins / Graphic Plus / White Out

9. Effects / Plugins / Graphic plus / Cross Shadow

10. Add a new layer
11. Paint with the dark color of the gradient
12. Layers / New mask Layer / From image / Mask [mask_angelagmn08]

13. Merge Group
14. Add new layer
15. Paint with light color
16. Layers / New mask layer / From image / Mask [NarahsMasks_1789]

17. Merge Group
18. Effects / User Defined Filter / Emboss 3

19. Copy the main tube and paste as a new layer
20. Position it to the left according to the model or as you prefer
21. Adjust the size
22. Drop shadow of your choice
23. Copy the floral or decorative tube and paste as a new layer
24. Position it according to the model or as you prefer
25. Adjust the size
26. Drop shadow of your choice
27. Effects / plugins / Graphic Plus / Cross shadow (optional)

28. Image / Add borders / 2px / dark color
29. Copy (it will stay in memory)
30. Image / Add borders / 40px / any color
31. Select this brida with the magic Wand (tolerance/feather=0)
32. Paste the image that is in memory into the selection
33. Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur=12

34. Effects / Plugins carolaine and Sensibility

35. Selections / invert
36. Drop shadow: 4 4 60 4 black and -4 -4 60 4 black
37. Select none
38. Image / Add borders / 2px / dark color
39. Image / resize: 1000px
40. Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
41. Place the signatures
42. Merge all
43. Save as jpeg

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Thank you Irene for testing my translations