This tutorial is by Tetê Samuel, whom I thank for letting me translate his tutorials.
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Original here

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Tubes

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Material

> you will need a tube character and a wordart
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Plugins
Plugin Picture Man Collection: Art Gallery/ Canvas
Plugin AP[Lines]/ Lines-SilverLining
Plugin Toadies/ What Are You?
Plugin I.C.NET Software/ Filters Unlimited 2/ Bkg Designer sf10 III/ Splash

You can find these plugins on the websites of:
Renée

Cloclo

SCRIPT

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Open the masks in the PSP and minimize
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Place the selections in the Selections folder of the PSP
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Choose two colors from your tube, a dark one for the foreground and a light one for the background

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Prepare a Linear gradient
 

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Open a new transparent image with 800x600px
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Paint with the gradient
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Layers / New mask Layer / From Image / Mask [44gitmask]

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Merge Group

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Layers / Duplicate

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Merge down

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Adjust / sharpness / Sharpen More

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Add a new layer

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Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

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Paint with the gradient with this other setting:

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Selections / Load selection from disk / Selection [sel-tete-confidence]

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Selections / Promote Selection to layer

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Select none

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Effects / Plugins / Picture Man Collection: Art Gallery / Canvas

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Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

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Layers / Properties / blend Mode: Overlay

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Layers / Duplicate

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Image / Free rotate

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Activate the pick Tool and set: X=596 / Y=118

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Layers / Duplicate

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Merge down - 2 vezes

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Activate raster layer 1

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Selections / Load Selection from disk / Selection [sel-tete-confidence1]

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Selections / Promote selection to layer

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Select none

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Effects / Plugins / AP [Lines] / SilverLining

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Layers / duplicate

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Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical (flip)

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Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal (Mirror)

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Effects / Plugins / Toadies / What are you?

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Layers / Properties / blend mode: overlay

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Activate the layer promoted Selection 1

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Layers / Properties / blend Mode: Overlay

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Activate the top layer - Group Raster 1

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Selections / Load selection from disk / Selection [sel-tete-confidence2]

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Selections / Promote selection to layer

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Select none

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Effects / Plugins / Toadies / What are you?

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Layers / Properties / blend Mode: overlay
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Merge visible
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Effects / Reflection Effects / Rotating Mirror

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Adjust / Sharpness / sharpen more
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Copy (will stay in memory)
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Image / Resize: 80% - all layers unchecked
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Select the transparent part with Magic Wand (tolerance/feather=0)
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Add new layer
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Paste the image that is in memory into the selection
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Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur=25

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Add new layer 54. Paint with the same gradient as before

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Pinte com o gradiente igual ao anterior

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Layers / Arrange / Move down

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Activate the top layer

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Merge down

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Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2 / BKG Designer sf10 III / Splash

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Effects / Reflection Effects / Rotating Mirror

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Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise

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Selections / Invert

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Selections / Modify / Select selection borders

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Add new layer

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Paint with foreground color

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Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

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Merge Down

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Select none

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Add new layer

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Paint with white color

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Layers / New mask Layer / From Image / Mask [Narah-Mask_0177]

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Merge Group

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Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal(Mirror)
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Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical (flip)
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Layers / Properties / Blend mode: Luminance / Opacity=50%
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Copy the Wordart and paste it as a new layer
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Position it according to the model
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Copy the tube [deco-tete-033] and paste it as a new layer
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Colorize it according to your work
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Copy your tube character and paste it as a new layer
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Make the adjustments you want (resize/sharpen/position/Drop shadow etc)
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Image / Ad borders / 4px / foreground color
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Place the signatures
Merge All
Save as jpeg

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