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Unzip my supplies. Install the masks into your mask folder. Open your tube in PSP.
Open a new image 400 x 400 with a transparent background and flood fill with white.
Select one of the predominant colours from your tube.
Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your selected colour.
Go to Layers > Load/Save Mask > Load Mask from Disk.
Locate sblendidmask01 in your drop down menu and apply with these settings;
Right click on the mask layer in the layer palette and hit delete. Say yes to the pop up box. Right click again and merge group.
With your mover tool move the mask layer up and to the left of your canvas.
Add a new raster layer.
Select a different colour from your tube and flood fill the new layer.
Apply the mask again following the same steps as the first mask layer.
Move this mask layer down and to the right.
Add one more raster layer and select a different colour from the tube. Floodfill the new layer and repeat the mask steps again. Move the final mask layer down and to the left.
Hide the white background layer and merge the three mask layers together. Lower the opacity of the merged layer to 75.
Make your background layer visible.
Copy and paste your tube onto your tag as a new layer.
Resize the tube so it fits neatly in the center of the canvas.
Duplicate the tube layer.
Make the original tube layer the active layer and resize by 75% with bicubic resample, all layers unchecked.
Still on the original tube layer go to Effects > Texture Effects > Mosaic Glass.
Apply with these settings;
Activate your duplicate tube layer and add the following Drop Shadow;
Hide the copy tube layer and merge all the other layers visible.
Make the tube layer visible again.
Add a new raster layer and send it to the bottom of your layer palette.
Select a dark colour from your tube and floodfill the new layer.
Activate your merged layer.
Go to Layers > Load/Save Mask > Load Mask from Disk.
Locate ww-border3 mask in the drop down menu and apply with these settings.
Delete the mask layer once again saying yes to the question and merge the group.
Still on the merged layer go to Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow.
Apply the same Drop Shadow as you used on your tube.
Repeat the Drop Shadow changing the Horizontal and Vertical values to minus 2.
On your layers palette go to merge > merge all flatten.
Now we add the border. Go to Image > Add Borders.
Add a border using a light colour from your tube of 3 pixels, symmetric checked.
Now add a second border of 5 pixels in the colour you chose for the dark background.
Take your magic wand (tolerance set to 5) and click once on the dark border.
Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel.
Apply an inner bevel with these settings;
Selections > Select none.
Now to add your name.
Select the font you want to use, make sure your background/fill colour is set to the dark background colour and type your name with the following settings;
Position your text where you want it to go.
The following part is optional. If you do not have Eyecandy 4 use a complimentary colour for your text and finish with a drop shadow.
Go to Effects > Eyecandy 4 > Gradient Glow.
Apply the glow with these settings for the basic tab;
And these for the Colour Tab;
Repeat the gradient glow using the same settings.
Repeat once more changing the colour setting to the dark colour you have used throughout.
