This tutorial is from Angela das Graças who I thank for letting me translate their tutorials.

Original here

Tubes

Material

Many thanks to the creators of these materials

Plugins

Mehdi - Simples - AAA Frames

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

> Open the masks in psp and minimize
>Adjust the size of the tubes according to your images

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>> You will need 1 main tube
>>Save the seamless tiling presets in the PSP Presets folder

1. Open the alpha file [alpha_angelagmn01] - Duplicate (shift+d) - Close the originals
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. Paint the image with this gradient
5. Selections - Select all
6. Copy your main tube and paste it into the selection
7. Select none
8. Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Preset [Mirror Ghost]
 

9. Effects - image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Preset [Andromeda]
 

10. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur: 15
 

11. Effects - Plugin - Mehdi - Grain Natural
 

12. Effects - plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles
 

13. Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles
 

14. Effects Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror
 

15. Effects - Plugins - Simple - Blintz
 

16. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen More
17. Selections - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #1
 

18. Add new layer
19. Paint the layer with light color (background)
20. Select none
21. Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Preset [diagonal stutter) - Apply 3 times
 

22. Layers - Duplicate
23. Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
24. Merge down
25. Layers - Properties - blend Mode: Overlay
26. Activate the Raster 1 layer
27. Selections - Load selection from Alpha Channel - Sel #2
 

28. Selections - Promote selection to layer
29. Select none
30. Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave
 

31. Drop Shadow: 4 4 60 4 black
32. Layers - Duplicate
33. Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
34. Merge down
35. Activate the Raster 1 layer
36. Selections Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #3
 

37. Selections - Promote selection to layer
38. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur: 6
 

39. Effects - Texture Effects - Weave - colors: black/white
 

40. Select none
41. Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
42. Drop Shadow: 4 4 60 4 black
43. Layers - Duplicate
44. Image - Mirror - Mirror vertical
45. Merge Down
46. ​​Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind
 

47. Add new layer
48. Paint with dark color
49. Layers - New Mask Layer - Mask [Narah_Mask_0916]
 

50. Merge group
51. Layers - Properties - Blend Mode: Multiply or another of your choice
52. Drop Shadow: 4 4 60 4 black
53. Layers - Duplicate
54. Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
55. Copy your main tube and paste as a new layer
56. Adjust the size
57. Position according to the model or as you prefer
58. Drop Shadow of your choice
59. Image - Add borders - 6px - background color
60. Image - Add borders - 6px - foreground color
61. Image - Add borders - 40px - different color
62. Select the 40px border with the Magic Wand - Tolerance/feather=0

62b. Paint with the gradient
63. Selections - Invert
64. Drop Shadow: 6 6 60 6 black
65. Repeat the Drop shadow with negative V and H
66. Selections - Invert
67. Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Photo Frame
 

68.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Texture Frame
 

69. Image - Add borders - 6px - background color
70. Image - Add borders - 6px - foreground color
71. Select none
72. Image - Resize: 900px (width) or as you prefer
73. Add your signature and the author's signature
74. Merge all
76. Save as jpeg

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