This tutorial is by Silvana Gomes, who I thank for letting me translate her tutorials.
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Original here

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Tubes

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Material

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Plugins
PSP effects only





SCRIPT

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Place the preset [Preset_InnerBevel_moldura slightly stuf.] in the Presets folder of the psp
Open masks on psp and minimize

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Choose two colors for your tube: a dark one for the foreground and a light one for the background
Prepare a Linear gradient

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Open a new transparent image measuring 800x650px
Paint the image with the gradient

4.
Selections / select All
Copy the tube character and paste it into the selection

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Select none
Adjust/blur/Radial blur

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Adjust / blur / Gaussian Blur=10

Effects / Texture Effects / Straw Wall

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Add a new layer
Paint this layer with dark color

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Layers / New Raster Layer / From Image / Mask [VSP262]

Merge Group

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Drop Shadow: 0 0 80 15 black
Add new layer

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Paint with light color
Effects / Artistic Effects / Halftone - Default

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21. Layers / New mask Layer / From Image /Mask [VSP193]

Merge Group

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Drop shadow: 0 0 80 15 pr
Image / Free rotate [Right/90]

13.
Activate the pick Tool and configure: X=408 / Y=21

Layers/duplicate

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Image/Mirror/Mirror/Horizontal
Merge down

15.
Copy the tube character and paste as a new layer
Drop shadow of your choice

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Image / Add borders / 3px / dark color
Image / Add borders / 3px / light color
Image / Add borders / 3px / dark color
Image / Add borders / 30px / dark color

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Select this 30px border with the magic Wand (tolerance/feather=0)
Effects / Reflection Effects / Kaleidoscope

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Adjust / blur / Average=25

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance more

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Selections / Select all
Image / Add borders / 3px / dark color

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Selections/Invert
Effects / 3D Effects / inner Bevel / Preset [[Preset_InnerBevel_lightly padded frame]

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Select none
Put signatures
Merge all
Save as jpeg

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Tutorial traduzido em 19/07/2024

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