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Lets go!
Install the brush and pop the mask into your mask folder.
Open up a new image 600 x 600 and floodfill with white, name this layer background.
Open up the frame I supplied.
Copy and paste the frame layer onto your canvas as a new layer, rename this layer frame.
Open the tube you are going to use for the background.
Copy and paste as a new layer and move below the frame, rename background tube.
With your mover tool move the tube so that it is positioned where you want it. I choose to use Jennifer Janesko for this tutorial as she has some wonderful images of faces in her tube packages. You can get a similar effect with any artist by resising the background tube to suit.
Once you have this tube positioned make the frame layer the active one again and click once with your magic wand outside of the frame. Now make the tube layer the active layer and hit delete to remove the excess tube then deselect.
Make your background layer the active one and add a new raster layer.
Select two contrasting colours from your background tube for your fore and back ground. Change the Foreground to gradient with these settings;
Floodfill the new layer with your gradient.
Layers > Load/Save Mask > Load Mask from Disk.
Locate my mask sweetmask34 in the dropdown box and apply to the gradient layer with the following settings;
Merge group and rename this layer Mask.
Now make sure you are still on your mask layer and activate your deform tool set to deform.
A bounding box will appear around the mask on your canvas. Pull the sides slightly out and the top and bottom down and up respectively.
Duplicate this layer once. On the original (bottom) layer apply a gaussian blur with a radius of 15.
On the duplicate layer got to Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds and apply with these settings;
Right click on the duplicate layer in the layers palette and Merge Down.
Now make the Frame layer the active layer and with your magic wand click once between the outer edge of the frame and the inner frames;
Activate your Background Tube layer and right click on it in the layers palette. Promote selection to layer.
Deselect.
Apply the following Inner bevel to your Promoted Selection Layer;
Reapply the bevel to the Frame layer.
Now lower the opacity of your background tube layer to around 70.
On your frame layer apply this drop shadow choosing a colour for the shadow suitable for your tube.
Hide your white background layer and merge visible.
Now its time to add your main tube. I found that one of a lady lying down works well for this.
Apply the same drop shadow you used for the frame to the tube and then With Your selection tool set to the following settings click around the outside of your tube close to the edge. We want to get rid of the sharpness of the tubes edges and be left with a nice soft look.
The trick to feathering an image this way is to keep the selection as far away from the parts you want to stay as they are. You need to be inside the tube on the parts you want to soften. Once you join up your slection it will expand on the image. Go to Selections > Invert. Hit delete a few times until you have the soft look you like.
Now change your foreground colour to the same one you used for the shadow.
Activate the background layer and add a new raster layer. Find my brush in the drop down box of the brush selection and apply once to the new layer centrally. Lower the opacity of the brush to around 50.
