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

Plugins

UnPlugged Tools / Nuke
UnPlugged Tools / Compose
UnPlugged Tools / Wavemaker

You can find these plugins on the websites of:

Renée
Cloclo

You can also find this tutorial translated into these languages:
(Click on the flag)

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. Place the [Squiggly] texture in the psp Textures folder
2. Choose two colors 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 900x600px
5. Paint the image with the gradient
6. Effects / Texture Effects / Texture - [squiggly]

7. Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen More
8. Layers / Duplicate
9. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / UnPlugged Tools / Nuke

10. Layers / Properties / Blend Mode: Soft Light
11. Image / Resize: 60% - all layers unchecked
12. Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling - Default

13. Merge Down
14. Layers / Duplicate / Image / Resize 80%
15. Repeat step 14 3 more times (in the end you will have 4 layers)
16. Drop shadow: 10 10 60 10 black / Drop Shadow: -10 -10 60 10 black (repeat these two steps on the 4 layers)
17. Activate the Copy (4) of Raster 1 layer
18. Effects / Geometric Effects / Skew

19. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / UnPlugged Toos / Compose

20. Image / Resize: 30% - all layers unchecked
21. Layers / Duplicate
22. Image / Mirror / MIrror Horizontal
23. Merge Down
24. Effects / Image Effects / Offset [-236/126]

25. Layers / Duplicate
26. Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal
27. Merge down
28. Layers / Duplicate

29. Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical

30. Merge Down

31. Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling - default

31b. Drop shadow same as above (positive and negative)

31c. Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
32. Copy the misted landscape tube and paste it as a new layer
33. Layers / Arrange / Move down
34. Adjust the size of the tube, using the Pick Tool or another way so that it is only inside the smaller frame, the one on top
35. Activate the background layer - Raster 1
36. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / UnPlugged Tool / Compose

37. Activate the top layer
38. Copy the main tube [angelagmn10] and paste it as a new layer
39. Adjust the size if necessary
40. Position as you prefer
41. Drop shadow of your choice
42. Copy the deco tube [deco_auriel_leteia] and paste it as a new layer
43. Effects / Image Effects / Offset [-410/0]

44. Colorize the deco or set the blend mode=Luminance (L)
45. Layers / Duplicate
46. Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal
47. The layers will be like this:

48. Image / Add borders / 2px / dark color
49. Image / Add borders / 2px / light color
50. Image / Add borders / 2px / dark color
51. Image / Add borders / 40px / any color
52. Select this 40px border with the Magic Wand (tolerance/feather=0)
53. Paint the selection with the gradient
54. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / UnPlugged Tools/ Wavemaker

55. Selections / Invert
56. Drop shadow: 10 10 60 10 / Drop Shadow: -10 -10 60 10 black
57. Select none
58. Image / Add borders / 2px / dark color
59. Image / Add borders / 2px / black
60. Place the signatures
61. Merge All
62. Save as jpeg

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Thank you Irene for testing my translations