For this tutorial you'll need PSP,  the program  20/20, Graphics Plus Filter, Xenofex Filter and a nice tube, I used a tube from Chinni,  Open the tube and resize till a height of 300 pixels. Effects - sharpen - sharpen. Duplicate (shift D) the tube once and close the original one. Edit - copy. Open a new image, 1024x300, transparant. Add a new layer. Selections - select all. Edit - paste into selection. Deselect. Effects - plugins - Xenofex - Origami with these settings Your image looks like this Effects - Graphics Plus - Quick Tile I with these settings Edit - copy. Open the programm 20/20. Edit - paste as new image. Image - seamless tile. You'll see that your image has a white background now. Edit - copy. Go back to PSP. Go to your backgroundlayer. Selections - select all. Edit - paste into selection. (Now you see that the layer doesn't have the Graphics Plus effects anymore). Deselect. Add a new layer. In your layer palette you move this new layer down. This is the bottomlayer now. Pick a color from your tube, I use #4872A6 and floodfill this layer. In your layer palette, make layer 1 active (the upper layer) and reduce the opacity to 60. My image looks like this Merge the layers visible. Go back to the tube. Image - mirror. Take your magic wand, tolerance and feather 0, and click outsite the tube. Selections - invert. Selections - modify - contract, 3 pixels. Selections - modify - feather, 6 pixels. Edit - copy. Go back to your background. Edit - paste as new layer. Move the tube to the left of the image. Image - resize - 50%, all layers UNchecked. Move the tube to the left upper. Image - rotate with these settings Effects - sharpen - sharpen. In your layer palette you duplicate this layer once. Image - mirror. Duplicate layer 1 once more. Move this duplicated layer to the right bottom, like below Duplicate the lowest copy layer, that's the tubelayer right under. Image - mirror. My image looks like this Hide the backgroundlayer, by clicking the glasses in the layer palette. Make one of the tube layers activ. Merge the layers visible. Effects - 3d effects - dropshadow with these settings Merge all layers (flatten), sign your image and save as jp(e)g. Any similarity with other tutorials is purely coincidental. I've just written down what I have done. This tutorial is written by LaBelleFleur© for Angel's PSP Groepen. Nothing may be copied and/or forwarded without my permission. Home