I made this for my mum -
she has been absolutely the best and I love her so very very much.
Created October 2005
©Copyright Kristell
Property of Kristell
This is my own creation, any similarities to any other tutorial on the Internet are
unintentional.
You may not copy this tutorial but are welcome to link to it from
your own group or site. Please do not script this tutorial.Thank you
This tutorial was written using PSP8
Flaming Pear Flood available from here
Mask - available from here - add to your psp masks folders
Tube of your choice
Open 500 x 500 transparent image
Paste your tube as a new layer
Choose two nice colours from your tube and then go to your gradient and choose sunburst
- this isn't necessary you can choose any gradient you wish. Place your gradient as
foreground and your main colour as background.
Go to your bottom layer and fill with your gradient
Texture, Blinds Settings 5, 100 Horizontal unchecked. For your colour choose one which
matches your tube.
Effects Flaming Pear Flood. Move your horizon setting to about 65 and then just use
whichever settings you are happy with.
Go to your tube layer and Flaming Pear Flood again - move your horizon so that your
tube looks like it is just in the water. This will give your tube a bit of a reflection in
the water.
Give your tube a really nice drop shadow that will show up on the background - the
settings I used were: -35, 0, 100, 15 decide what looks best for your image. check the box
that says Shadow on new layer.
New Layer - move to the top.
Fill with your main colour
Load the mask called Ironworks from disk .
Layer Merge Group
Inner Bevel with these settings Bevel No 2, 10, 24, 11, 15, 91, 320, 19, 40
Drop Shadow - the same settings as previously ensure you check the box that
says Shadow on new layer
Go to your tube layer, select all, float, defloat and then take your eraser, make your
top layer active and remove any parts of the mask you wish to remove. Then make your
shadow layer active and remove any shadow parts that you don't like. When you have
finished select none
Merge all your layers
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your main colour
Select and add inner bevel settings as before
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your gradient. Blinds settings as before and then
repeat once again but this time check the horizontal box.
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your main colour
Select and iadd nner bevel settings as before
Add border 30 pixels - fill with your other colour - you will need to toggle your
palette to change colours
Select the 30 pixels border keep selected and new raster layer
Fill the selected 30 pixels border with your main colour - you will need to toggle back
again
Load Mask from Disk - same mask as before. Deselect
Merge Group
Inner Bevel settings as before
Drop Shadow - but this time make your settings 5, 5, 100, 15
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your main colour
Select and add inner bevel settings as before
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your gradient. Blinds settings as before and then
repeat once again but this time check the horizontal box.
Add border 6 pixels - fill with your main colour
Select and inner bevel settings as before
Add border 1 pixel black
Add your copyright and watermark - make sure all layers are merged, resize if you need
to and show it off to the world!!
Thanks for playing!
