This tutorial was written by Rob on June 11th 2008. It's concept is copyrighted to Rob. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

PLEASE NOTE:
None of my tutorials or Scrap Kits are allowed to be used for tags being bought by My PSP Tubes or for any other form of monetary gain.
This goes against the artists TOU that I use for my tuts and against my TOU.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

A Font of your choice

Xero - Porcelain
Available HERE

Filters Unlimited 2 - Plasma effect

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow

One Tube and one Image of choice
I used a tube by Selina Fenech. Used with a license from CILM.
I used an image by LuAnn Weiss. Used with a license from CILM.

Stitches of your choice
The ones I used were made by Melissa of Scrappy Expressions and I am unable to share them.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

Step 1:

Open a new 600 x 500 transparent image and flood fill with white.
Go to your Preset Shapes and select the Ellipse with the following settings.
Anti-Alias and Create as Vector both Checked - Line Style: Solid - Line Width: 3.
Set the Foreground to a colour from your tube and the Background to Null.
Draw out the ellipse - see above tag as guide.
Go to Object - Align - Center in Canvas and then convert to Raster layer.
With your Magic Wand - Tolerance:10 and Feather: 0 click inside the ellipse.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. When happy with positioning go to Selections - Invert then press the delete key on the keyboard.
Go to Selections Invert again (to get it back to selecting the ellipse) then go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 1.
Add a new Raster layer and floodfill this layer with white.
Go to Effects - Plugins and select your Filters Unlimited 2 filter. Under Render choose the Plasma option and apply the default setting.
Move this plasma layer beneath the ellipse in the layer palette.
Deselect.
Click on the tube layer to activate it and go to Effects - Plugins and select Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow with the following settings.
Colour: White - Glow Width: 3.00 - Soft Corners: 25% - Overall Opacity: 100%.
Hide all layers except the tube and the plasma effect layer (click on the little eye next to the layers in the layer palette to hide them).
Activate either the tube or plasma layer and go to Layers - Merge - Merge Visible.
Duplicate the newly merged layer.
On the original merged layer go to Image - Resize and resize by 117% - Bicubic.
On this layer go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur with a radius setting of 10.00.

Now to draw the outline diamond shape.
Activate your Preset shapes and select Ellipse with the following settings.
Foreground: Metallic Silver gradient - Background: null - Line width: 2.00 - Line Style: Diamond.
Draw a circle around the blurred layer as in the tag above.
Once you are happy with the size go to Object - Align - Center in Canvas and then convert to Raster layer.

Step 2:

Click on your white background layer to activate it.
Copy your chosen image and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Resize if neccessary.
Select your smudge effect tool - see below for what it looks like and where to find it in PSP 9.

The settings I used are Size: 30 - Hardness: 66 - Step: 1 - Density: 48 - Thickness: 100 - Rotation: 0 - Opacity: 57.
Using one of the round shapes hold down the left mouse button and move it in and out along the straight lines of the image.
You don't have to be exact on this part, just experiment and see what happens!
You just want to take away the straight edges of the image.
Add the following Drop Shadow to the image layer.
V & H = 2
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Then add another Drop Shadow to the image layer using these settings
V & H = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 10
Colour = Black

Now for the finishing touches.
I added a couple of smaller stitches in the top corners of the ellipse as if holding it up onto the background image.
I also added four larger stitches in the corners of the image, as if holding the image itself up.

Add your name in a font and colour of choice.

Add all artists copyrights and your watermark.
Crop to size and save.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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