This tutorial was written by Monti on July 26th 2006. Its concept is copyrighted to Monti. 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.

This was written for PSP 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro
Eye Candy 400 Gradient Glow and Glass.

Font of your Choice
I used Angie Impressing which you can download *here*
and Bank Gothic which is a pay font so I cannot supply.

Tubes of your choice (1 full length and 3 others).
The images used in this tutorial are ©Martin Abel. You need to have a license to use his work, which you can get from CILM

Grunge and splat brushes of your choice.

My Template, Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow setting and Eye Candy 4000 Glass settings
You can download them *here*
Open the template in psp and put the gradient glow setting (MontiMultiplePersonality) into your Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow preset folder and the glass settings (MultiplePersonality) into your Eye Candy 4000 Glass preset folder.

Ok we are ready to start.

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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 your tubes and my template in psp minimize for now.
Open a new image 600 x 600 and flood fill with white.
Maximize my template tube and copy and paste it as a new layer onto your white canvas.
Select your magic wand, tolerance and feather 0 and click inside each of the black shapes.
Selection Modify contract by 5 and flood fill the selected areas with white.
Deselect.

Step 2:

Open the full length tube and select 2 colours from it for your foreground and background. (I used 2 shades of pink from her top.)
Set your foreground to gradient (foreground-background) and change the angle to 45. Repeats 1.

Copy and paste your tube onto the canvas and resize if necessary (she should be about the length of the vertical shape.) and move into position.
Add the following drop shadow

V and H = 5
Opacity = 50
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Activate your template layer and with your magic wand click inside the white area in the vertical box.
Layers - new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient we prepared earlier.
You can lower the opacity on this if you want. I lowered mine to 80%.
Deselect.

Step 3:

Maximize the tube you want in the top horizontal box.
Copy and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Resize if necessary to get the part you want showing in the box so it will fit.
Repeat the drop shadow we used earlier.
Select 2 colours from it for your foreground and background. (I used 2 shades of blue from her hair.)
Set your foreground to gradient (foreground-background).
Activate your template layer and with your magic wand click inside the white area in the top horizontal box.
Layers - new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient we prepared earlier.
You can lower the opacity on this if you want. I lowered mine to 80%.
Activate the tube layer, selection invert and hit delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.

Step 4:

Maximize the tube you want in the middle horizontal box.
Copy and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Resize if necessary to get the part you want showing in the box so it will fit.
Repeat the drop shadow we used earlier.
Select 2 colours from it for your foreground and background. (I used a red and black from her top.)
Set your foreground to gradient (foreground-background).
Activate your template layer and with your magic wand click inside the white area in the middle horizontal box.
Layers - new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient we prepared earlier.
You can lower the opacity on this if you want. I lowered mine to 80%.
Activate the tube layer, selection invert and hit delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.

Step 5:

Maximize the tube you want in the bottom horizontal box.
Copy and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Resize if necessary to get the part you want showing in the box so it will fit.
Repeat the drop shadow we used earlier.
Select 2 colours from it for your foreground and background. (I used 2 shades of green from her hair.)
Set your foreground to gradient (foreground-background).
Activate your template layer and with your magic wand click inside the white area in the bottom horizontal box.
Layers - new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient we prepared earlier.
You can lower the opacity on this if you want. I lowered mine to 80%.
Activate the tube layer, selection invert and hit delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.

Hide the white background layer and merge all visible.
Add the following drop shadow

V and H = 3
Opacity = 50
Blur = 3
Colour = Black

Unhide the white layer.

Step 6:

Activate your text tool and select Bank Gothic font. Size 26, Stroke 0, Bold, Kerning = -(minus)100, Vector selected, Colour black.
Using all capital letters type in "ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE ME SELVES"
Use your nodes to pull in the edges so it lines up underneath your template.
Convert to raster layer.
Move this below your merged layer.

Step 7:

Activate your background layer and then add a new raster layer.
Select your brush tool and add grunge and splat brushes of your choice using colours from your tubes.

On a new layer add your artist copyright and your watermark.

Step 8:

Set your foreground to black and your background to a colour from your tubes.
Activate your text tool and select Angie Impressing font (or font of your choice). Size between 72 and 100 depending on the length of the name, Stroke width 2, Vector checked, Kerning = 0
Type your name.
Go to Image Rotate - Free Rotate with the following settings.


Move your text into position. and convert to raster layer.
Go to effects Eye Candy 4000 Glass and apply the "MultiplePersonalities" preset.
Go to effects Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow and apply the "MontiMultiplePersonalities" preset.

Apply the following drop shadow
V and H = 3
Opacity = 85
Blur = 4
Colour = Black

Hide your white background and crop the image.
Resize to your liking. (I resized mine by 85% bicubic checked).

Save as a .jpg


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