This tutorial was written by Monti on October 22nd 2005 and reworked on October 3rd 2006. It's 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

A Tube of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Anthony Guerra. You can purchase a license to use his work from CILM.

Mask for Template by MsKris
You can see more of MsKris' awesome work at PaintShop Stop. Thank you MsKris.
Download here.

A font of your choice.

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:

Put your mask in your Masks folder in PSP or wherever you store your masks.
Open your tube in PSP.
Open your font and minimize.

Step 2:

Open a new transparent image 450x450 and flood fill with black.
Add a new raster layer and flood fill with a light colour from your tube.
Go to Layers/ Load Save Mask/ Load Mask from Disk
Use the following settings.


Right click on your mask layer and delete.
Click Yes in the box that comes up then go to layers merge visible.

Duplicate the top layer and go to Image Resize with the following settings.


Duplicate this layer and repeat resize.
Go to Image/ Mirror.
Activate the bottom layer and Image/ Mirror.

Step 3:

Open a new image 370 x 270 and flood fill with black.
Add a new raster layer and flood fill with a light colour from your tube.
Go to Layers/ Load Save Mask/ Load Mask from Disk.
Use the same settings we used earlier.
Right click on your mask layer and delete.
Click Yes in the box that comes up then go to layers merge visible.

Press shift D to make a duplicate and minimize it. We will be using it later.


Step 4: On the smaller image we just made copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
DO NOT close the tube.
Resize as necessary and position it where you want it.

Go to Image/ add Border using the settings below.


Repeat Add border but change the colour to the lighter one from your tube and the border size to 2.
Repeat one last time with the original settings in the screenshot.

Copy and paste this tube image as a new layer on the original image and merge all visible.
DO NOT close the original.
Merge all flatten and add one black border using the settings we just used.

Step 5:

Maximize the smaller mask image and resize by 50%. Press shift D to duplicate.
Maximize the tube.
Use your selection tool to select an area from your tube
(edge pieces work better, see my examples).
Copy and paste it as a new layer onto your image. Resize if necessary.
Image Add Border.
Symmetric checked. size 2 pixels, colour black.
Repeat changing size to 1 and colour to lighter tube colour.
Repeat changing size back to 2 and colour to black.
Resize by 60% and paste as a new layer.
Position where you want it. See my examples.

Repeat the steps above using the duplicate small mask image and a different part of your tube.

Step 6:

Open up the mask tube image we used in step 4.
image resize 25% and paste as a new layer on the original image.
Layers merge all flatten and add a black border, size 3 pixels.

Step 7:

Set your foreground to black and background to the lighter colour from your tube.
Select the font of your choice, size will depend on the font used. Make sure vector is checked.
Set your stroke width to 1.
When you are happy with it, convert to raster layer and apply your favourite inner bevel or SBP preset.
Add the following drop shadow


Add your watermark and any copyright info, resize to your liking and save as a jpg.







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