Materials:

Tube and gradient here
Tiles here
Unzip the tileszip and put it in the Preset Shapes file of PSP.



1. Open a new image with a transparant background of 500/500.

2. Open the tube and the gradient in PSP.

3. Put your foregroundcolor on #FEFEFC and your backgroundcolor on
#D75448, make a gradient of it like the example:



4. Copy the waitingtube and paste it as new layer on your image.

5. Activate your preset shape tool and use the settings like in the
example:



6. Lock the foregroundcolor and take care your backgroundcolor is
put on your gradient.
Now draw the shape around the tube, but do make it a little wider
than the tube, see the example:



7. Make the layer a rasterlayer in your layerpalet.

8. selections/ select all/ floating. Give an innerbevel like on the
example:



9. Select none, take your magicwand, all settings on 0 and click on
the shape we have made. Selections/ Modify/ Expand with 1.

10. Add a new layer to your layerpalet and fill it with your gradient
with flood fill tool. Select none. Pull this layer completely to the bottom.

11. Your layerpalet will look like this now:



12. Activate your tube layer in your layerpalet and duplicate it,
lock the duplicate.

13. Effects/ Texture Effects/ Mosaic Glass with the following settings:



14. Activate the shape layer in your layerpalet and click with your
magicwand outside the shape, selections/ Expand with 1 pixel.
Go back to the tubelayer and click on your deletebutton,
now everything that's outside the shape is gone. Select none.

15. Now go to the copy of your tubelayer and resize your tube to 90%.
Effects/ 3-D/ Dropshadow with the following settings:



16. Merge all the layers visible.

17. Activate your texttool and use the following settings:



18. Make this layer a rasterlayer in your layerpalet.

19. Selections/ select all/ floating, Use the same bevel as at point 8
and the same shadow as at point 15.

20. Select none. Put your watermark on the image.

21. Doubleclick on your selectiontool and click on the same area as
on the example:



22. Image/ Crop to selection. Now all the extra space is gone.

23. Image/ add border/ 10 pixels. Click with your magicwand on the
border and fill it with your gradient, inverted.

24. Add an innerbevel like before. Invert selection/ Modify/ Contract
with 7 pixels.

25. Selection/ invert/ effects/ 3-D/ Cut out with the following settings:



26. Do this again, but then with vertical and horizontal on -2.

27. Resize the image with the longest side to 400 pixels and save
it as a JPG file.

Juli 2005 © Enne