This tutorial was created with PSPX2 and translated with PSPX, PSPX2, PSPX3, but it can also be made using other versions of PSP.
Since version PSP X4, Image>Mirror was replaced with Image>Flip Horizontal,
and Image>Flip with Image>Flip Vertical, there are some variables.
In versions X5 and X6, the functions have been improved by making available the Objects menu.
In the latest version X7 command Image>Mirror and Image>Flip returned, but with new differences.
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Italian translation qui
French translation here
Your versions ici




For this tutorial, you will need:

Thanks for the tubes Cady, Animabelle and for the brush Benice.
(you find here the links to the material authors' sites)



consult, if necessary, my filter section here
Filters Unlimited 2.0 here
Toadies - What are you here
Two Moon - VerticalChopBlur here
AAA Filters - Custom here
Filters Toadies and Two Moon can be used alone or imported into Filters Unlimited.
(How do, you see here)
If a plugin supplied appears with this icon it must necessarily be imported into Unlimited





You can change Blend Modes according to your colors.

In the newest versions of PSP, you don't find the foreground/background gradient (Corel_06_029).
You can use the gradients of the older versions.
The Gradient of CorelX here



Place the brush in the Brushes folder. Attention, please, the brush is composed by two files, you must place both the files in the folder.
See my notes about Brushes here


1. Choose two colors of your tube,
Set your foreground color with the light color: for me #82a07a,
and your background color with the dark color: for me #6b5a46



Set your foreground color to a Foreground/Background Gradient, style Linear.



2. Open a new transparent image 900 x 600 pixels.
Flood Fill the transparent image with your gradient.

3. Open the tube by Cady Cady Misted

Erase the watermark and go to Edit>Copy.
Minimize the tube.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

4. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, default settings.



5. Layers>Duplicate.
Close this layer.

6. Activate again the layer below, Raster 2.
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 55%, or according to your colors.

Layers>Merge>Merge Down.

7. Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Two Moon - VerticalChopBlur, default settings.



8. Open again and activate the layer above, Copy of Raster 2.

Adjust>Blur>Radial Blur.



Reduce the opacity of this layer to 70%, or according to your color.

9. Open Deco_1

Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

10. Layers>Merge>Merge All.

Edit>Copy.

11. Image>Add borders, symmetric not checked, color #bb2830.



12. Activate your Magic Wand Tool
and click on the border to select it.

Edit>Paste into Selection.

13. Effects>Plugins>Toadies - What are you.



14. Selections>Invert.

Effects>3D Effects>Cutout.



Repeat Effects>3D Effects>Cutout, vertical and horizontal -1.



Selections>Select None.

15. Open the man tube

Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

Move the tube to the upper right corner.
Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light, or to your liking.

16. Activate again the tube by Cady Cady Misted

Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

Place rightly the tube in the center.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, at your choice.

17. Open the tube
or a tube at your choice (I added in the material another tube that you may use).

Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

Move the tube at the bottom left corner.
Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light.



Move this layer under the layer Raster 2.

18. Layers>New Raster Layer.

Activate your Brush Tool
Look for and select the brush Benice_L157_drops with these settings.



Set your foreground color with a color at your choice, for me the red color #bb2830,
and apply the brush at the upper left,
clicking with your left mouse button to use your foreground color.



Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Dissolve.

19. Open the wordart WordArt

Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

Move the text at the bottom right, or to your liking.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, at your choice.

20. Sign your work on a new layer.

Image>Add borders, 1 pixel, symmetric, red foreground color #bb2830.

21. Effects>Plugins>AAA Filters - Custom - click on Sharp and ok.



22. Save as jpg.

Pour le déco merci Wieskes; les autres tubes sont à moi






If you have problems or doubts, or you find a not worked link, or only for tell me that you enjoyed this tutorial, write to me.

13 January 2023