This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.  I used PSPX2

  Please be creative and choose whatever you want to make it your own.

  Any resemblance to this tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Tube:  Deepnita by Renee Biertempfel  Her tubes are at  CDO

Kit:  Blue Lace by Devilish Dezines you can buy her kits   Here

Template 81 by my dear friend Millie  Here

Mask 131 by Designs by Vaybs

Font  Janagrace for name

Plug-ins:  Filter Factory U - Shear Tiles and Penta.com - Color Dot

Note:  Abbreviations used in all my tutorials

Elements = El  Copy/Paste = C/P  Duplicate = Dup  Paper = P  Template = Temp

Open Millie's Template 81 - Shift D to duplicate - Close original

Delete raster 1 (tou),  layers 9, 8 and 7

Select Temp 1 - Selections - Select all - Float - Defloat

New Raster Layer - Flood fill with a gradient

I used colors Foreground:  4142d9  Background:  Black

Settings:  Style linear   Angel 90  Repeats 4

Filter Factory U - Shear Tiles

Settings:  Tile Width 47   Tile Height 21   X Offset 70   Y Offset 61   Y Scale 2

Adjust -  Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Uniform 45

Select Temp 2 - Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat

C/P  P 6 - Paste Into Selection - Selections - Select None

Select Temp 3 - Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat

C/P P11 - Paste Into Selection - Selections - Select None

Select Temp 4 = Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat

C/P  P3 - Paste As New Layer - Adjust Paper - Selections - Invert -Delete

C/P Tube  (I mirrored mine) - Adjust - Dup - Close Eye on Dup

Back to Original Tube - Delete

Back to Dup Tube - Open Eye - Erase Excess around Temp

Select Temp 5 - Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat

New Raster Layer - Flood Fill with Gradient

Two light colors  I used   Foreground:  a7a3cd  Background:  Bcc5dc

Settings same as we used before.

Plug-in Penta - Color Dot

Settings:  Value 55  Distance 2   then 255/255/255

C/P  as New Layer Large Tube Face Image - Adjust

Selections - Invert - Delete

Change Blend Mode to Luminance  Decrease Opacity to 60%

Select Frame -  Adjust - Manual Color Correction

Check Manual Target Color - Right Click for Source Color (frame color or I used white)

Left Click for Target Color

I used:  Hue 176 Saturation 74  Lightness  203  a color from the tube

Click OK  Sharpen if needed

Elements - Please reference my example for placement

Copy/ Paste 

El 11- Resize 25%

El 23 - Resize 30%

El 8 - Resize 50 % X 3

El 20 - Resize 35% X 2

El 47 - Resize 40 %

El 13 - Resize - 50%

El 12 - Mirror - Resize 20%

Shadow for Tube

Place shadow on Duplicate layer not the top layer

Effects - 3-D - Drop Shadow 2/2/40/10 Black

Shadow for Elements and Templates

2/2/40/4  Black

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible  Sharpen if preferred

Crop - Resize if needed

Now add your Artist Copyright and your License info. and Name

Done!  Thank you for doing my tutorial

I would love to see your results!