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You will need the following :

1. The faerie tube
2. The sweetpea tube
3. My Selection - Copy to your PSP/Selection folder
4. The font I used - AL Sandra
All the supplies have since been added into one zip file, so you need click any of the links only once and all the files will download :)

Plugins used : FM Tools/Blend Emboss, Stylize/Extrude, Xero/Titanium


This tutorial is written assuming you have a good working knowledge of PSP. The tutorial is written in PSPX10, but can easily be done in earlier versions. This tutorial is written by me. Please do not copy it and claim it as yours. You are welcome to print the tutorial and share my web page.
Enjoy!

Let's get cracking.
1. Open a new canvas 500 x 500, transparent
2. Select 2 colors from your tube, the foreground to be dark and the background to a lighter color, then set your foreground to FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND gradient


3. Floodfill the canvas with the gradient
4. Apply Xero - Titanium


5. Effects/Distortion Effects/Polar Coordinates


6. Effect/Plugins/FM Tools/Blend Emboss


7. Add a new raster layer
8. Selections from disk


9. Floodfill Selection with gradient (same settings as before)
10. Selections/Invert
11. Press the delete key on your keyboard a couple of times (to clean the edges)
12. Selections/None
13. Drop Shadow


14. Duplicate, Mirror
15. Duplicate, Flip
16. Duplicate, Mirror
17. Add new raster layer
18. Floodfill with Gradient
19. Effects/Plugins/Stylize/Extrude


20. Repeat no 6 - same settings (Blend Emboss)
21. Send layer to bottom
22. Highlight large circle layer
23. Image resize


24. Add Drop Shadow


25. Merge Visible
26. Open the faerie tube, copy and paste onto your canvas
27. Add same drop shadow
28. Working on your tube layer, get the smudge brush


29. Hold down your left mouse button and in short small stokes, "smudge the edges of the tube. Like dragging out the edges thus giving the effect of "ghosting" an image behind your tube
30. Apply Blend Emboss again, but reduce the intensity to .180
31. Merge All Flatten
32. Add symetric border of 3 pixels
33. Select border, floodfill with BACKGROUND (light color)
34. Apply an inner bevel


35. Selection/Invert
36. Apply a Cutout


37. Select None
38. Add Symetric Border 3 pixels
39. Select and floodfill with a silver pattern of whatever color looks good to you
40. Add Symetric Border 3 pixels
41. Floodfill with the FOREGROUND color (dark color)
42. Repeat No 34, select none
43. Add Symetric Border 20 pixels
44. Floodfill with gradient-these settings


45. Repeat step 19 ( Stylize/Extrude)
46. Apply Blend Emboss, settings the same (.180)
47. Apply an Inner Bevel, Select None


48. Repeat steps 32,33,34 (3 pixel light border)
49. Repeat 39, 39, Select None (silver 3 pixel border)
50. Repeat 40,41,42, Select None (3 pixel dark border)
51. Copy and paste sweetpea tube into positition. You may need to reduce size
52. Repeat the Blend Emboss on the Sweetpea tube
53. Add Drop Shadow, same settings
54. Merge All Flatten
55. Type in your Text


56. Convert to raster layer
57. Add drop shadow x 2
58. Merge All Flatten
59. Add your Watermark




Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. I would love to see your work. Please feel free to email me!
Hugs Lindy

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