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

Original HERE

Tubes

Material

Many thanks to the creators of these materials

Plugins

Sapphire Filter 01 / SapphirePlug-in_0080
Sybia / Quantumt
Seamless / Polkadot
Unlimited 2.0 / Bkg Kaleidoscope / @mirrored & Scaled

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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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 the PSP Mirror Horizontal=Mirror / Mirror Vertical=Flip / Pick tool=deformation



1. You will need a tube character

2. Choose two colors for your tube: a dark one for the foreground and a lighter one for the background

3. Prepare a Linear gradient


4. Open a new transparent image with 1000x600px

5. Paint the image with the gradient

6. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / Sapphire Filter 01 / Sapphire Plugin 0080


7. Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise

8. Effects / Plugins / Sybia / QUANTUMT

9. Layers/Duplicate

10. Image/ Mirror / Mirror Vertical

11. Layers / Properties / Blend Mode: Darken

12. Merge Down

13. Effects / plugins / Mura's Seamless / Polkadot - Note the RGB of the light color and put the values ​​in Red, Green and Blue

14. Copy the Deco tube [deco_angelagmn_40] and paste it as a new layer

15. Colorize with your preferred method

16. Copy the tube character and paste it as a new layer

17. Drop shadow of your choice

18. Image / Add borders / 2px / black

19. Copy the deco tube [deco_gotas_lateral_leteia] and paste it as a new layer

20. Colorize

21. Effects / Image Effects / Offset [-436/0]

22. Layers/duplicate

23. Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal

24. Image / Add borders / 40px / any color

25. Select this edge with the Magic Wand (tolerance/feather=0)

26. Paint with the gradient

27. Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / BKG Kaleidoscope / @mirrored & scaled

28. Selections / Invert

29. Drop Shadow: 6 6 60 6 black

30. Repeat the Shadow drop with negative V and H

31. Select none

32. Image / Add borders / 2px / black or other dark color

33. Image / Add borders / 30px / any color

34. Select this edge with Magic Wand

35. Paint with the gradient

36. Effects / Plugins / Mura's Seamless / Polkadot - Note the RGB of the light color and fill in the Red, Green and Blue fields

37. Selections/Invert

38. Drop Shade: 6 6 60 6 Black

39. Repeat Drop Shadow with negative V and H

39b. Select none

40. Image / Add borders / 2px / black

41. Image / Resize: 1000px (width) all layers checked

42. Add signatures

43. Merge all

44. Save as jpeg

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Thank you Irene for testing my translations