This tutorial is from Tshaka who I thank for letting me translate their tutorials.

Original here

Tubes

Material

Many thanks to the creators of these materials

Plugins

VM Distortion / Radiator II

Unlimited 2 / BKG Background Designer sf10 I - Crosstitch

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

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

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You will need a tube character
Place the selection [phoebe-tsha] in the Selections folder of the psp
Set the foreground to white
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Open a new transparent image measuring 900x550px
Fill it with white
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Selections - Select all
Copy the tube character and paste it into the selection
Select none
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Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

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Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:35

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Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise

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Effects - Plugins - Unlimited 2 - VM Distortion - Radiator II - default

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Add new layer
Paint with white color
Layers - New mask layer - From Image - Mask [Narah_Mask_1454]

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
Merge Group
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Selections - Load selection from disk - Selection [Phoebe-tsha]

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Open your tube character

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
Copy your tube character - Paste as a new layer
Use the Move tool to position it on top of the selection
Adjust the size so that it is clearly visible
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Selections - Invert
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur: 10

Select none
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Layers - Arrange - Move down
Layers - Properties - Blend Mode: Hard Light
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Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)
Layers - Duplicate
Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
Image - Resize: 45% all layers unchecked
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Effects - plugins - Unlimited 2 - BKG  Designers sf10 I - Crosstitch - default

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - same as above

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Effects - Geometric Effects - Perspective horizontal]

Repeat Perspective horizontal
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Effects - Geometric Effects - Circle - Transparent

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Image - Resize: 55% - all layers unchecked
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Image - Free Rotate - Right/90

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Effects - Image Effects - Offset [300/135]

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Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize: 55% - all layers unchecked
Position according to the model

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Layers - Duplicate
Move to the top left corner - see the model
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Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize: 55% - all layers unchecked
Position as you prefer - see the model
Merge down - Apply 3 times
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
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Drop shadow: 0 0 70 35 black
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Activate the background layer - Raster 1
Copy (it will stay in memory)
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Choose a dark background color from your image
Image - Add borders - 1px - background color
Image - Add borders - 2px - white
Image - Add borders - 1px - background color
Image - Add borders - 15px - white
Selections - select all
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Image - Add borders - 5px - white
Selections - invert
Paste the image that is in memory into the selection
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
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Drop shadow: 0 0 70 4 black
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Selections - Select all
Image - Add borders - 25px - white
Drop shadow - same as before
Select none
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Copy your main tube - paste as a new layer
Adjust the size
Position as you prefer
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Layers - Duplicate
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:35

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Layers - Properties - Blend Mode: Multiply
Layers - Arrange - Move down
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Image - Add borders - 1px - color background
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Finalize
Place signatures
Merge all
Save as jpeg

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