Shakira

Tubes
Tube of Shakira (500 pix width)
MC2792 (or a own tube)

here you find the materials

Out of respect Leave the names from the Tubers as they are.
Don’t pretend that You’re The one that made the
tubes when You’re not.
I will thank All tubers for sharing the tubes with me.

Filters:
Xero Porcelian
FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss
Bordermania

Font:
Of choice

Let’s start:

1
Open all tubes in PSP
When necessary resize the tubes &
adjust unsharp mask 1/64/4

Open a new transparent layer 600x400 pix
Out of the Shakira tube you pick 2 colours
Light on front dark behind

2
Your front colour becomes gradient
Linear angle 45 repeats 0
Fill your layer with the gradient

3
Go to the background tube
Copy & paste as a new layer
(it’s stands okay)

the tube is larger than the layer

So we go to the rectangle selection tool
Make a selection of the size of the layer

Image crop to selection
Now you see this:

the tube has the same size as the layer

Blend luminance
Opacity 65

4
Select all

Modify contract 10 pix
Modify select selections borders
Inner 1 AA on (anti alias)

1x delete button

5
CTRL D

Select all
Modify contract 10 px

Invert selection

Promote selection to layer

This it what you get

Inner bevel Pillow:

CTRL D
Merge down

6
Select all
Modify contract 35

Modify select selections borders
Inner AA 5:

Push 1x delete button
Outer bevel:

Drop shadow 2/2/55/2
Repeats -2/-2
CTRL D

7
Plug-in FM Tile Tools
Blend Emboss standard
Plug-in Xero Porcelain standard
Merge visible layers

8
Go to the tube from Shakira
Copy & paste as a new layer
Move her to the left corner under
(do you like the tube right more than mirror please)

Duplicate the tube
Activate the original layer
Distortion wind 100 left

Opacity 63
Activate the copy
One step photo fix

9
Go to the text tool
And take a font of choice
Use the settings you like and write your text

Drop shadow: 1/3/75/1

10
Place your watermark
Merge all layers
Plug-in Bordermania Frame #2
The 2 buttons on top are moved to 10

Save as JPEG

This tutorial was written on September 19, 2008 &
Translated on February 21, 2009 by Babaloux

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