This tutorial is by Angela das Graças, who I thank for letting me do her translations
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This tutorial was a tribute from the author to her friend Nena Silva
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Original here

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tube

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Material

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Plugins
Xero/Artworks
Xero/Fritillary
Xero/Fuzzifier
Simple / Diamonds
Simple / Zoom Out and Flip


SCRIPT


Open the mask [NarahsMasks_1759] and minimize
Save the selection [046 ] in the PSP's Selections folder
Open material / Duplicate (shift+d) / Close originals
Choose two tube colors: put the dark color in the foreground and the light color in the background
Prepare a Linear gradient
[Angle 45 / Repeats 2 / Invert unchecked]

Open a new transparent image measuring 1000 x 700px
Selections / Load selection from disk / Selection [046 ] / MOVE TO UPPER LEFT MARKED


Paint with the gradient
Select none
Layers/Duplicate
Image / Mirror / Vertical Mirror (flip)
Layers/Duplicate
Effects / image Effects / Offset=0/230/transparent


Merge visible
Drop shadow: 5 5 60 5 black
Layers/Duplicate
Image / Mirror / Mirror horizontal
Layers / Merge / Merge down
Add new layer
Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom
Paint with the gradient
Effects / plugins / Xero / Artworks - 2 times
[lines 25 25 10 555 10 8 4 6 0 255]


Effects / plugins / Xero / Fritillary
[8 50 40 0]


Adjust/Sharpness/sharpen
Effects/plugins/simple/diamonds
Effects / plugins / Simple / Zoom Out and Flip
Select the Merged layer (from the selection)
Effects / plugins / Xero / Fuzzifier - apply 3 times
[201 128 87 246]

Note: My version of the Xero plugin is different from the author's version. For this reason, while the author's version has 4 items to be configured, mine only has 3. Even so, the effect didn't work in my version, even though I applied it 3 times. I put the print of both versions to configure

Effects / distortion Effects / polar Coordinates - Apply 2 times
[Polar or rectangular marked]


Layers / Properties / blend Mode: Dodge
Add new layer
Paint with light color
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image / Mask [NarahsMasks_1729]


Merge Group
Image/resize: 120% - All layers unchecked
Layers / Arrange / Move down
Effects / user defined filter / emboss 3


Activate the top layer
Copy the tube character and paste as a new layer
Resize if necessary
Position as you see fit
Drop Shadow of your choice
Image / Add borders / symmetric marked / 2px / dark color
Image / Add borders / symmetric marked / 2px / light color
Image / Add borders / symmetric marked / 2px / dark color
Image / Add borders / symmetric marked / 40px / color white or different from the previous one
Select this 40px border with the Magic wand (tolerance/feather=0)
Paint with the gradient
Effects / Plugins / Xero / Artworks same as above, but only apply once


Effects / plugins / Xero / Fritillary same as above


Selections / invert
Drop shadow: 15 15 60 15 black
Drop Shadow: -15 -15 60 15 black
Select none
Copy the tube deco from the material and paste it as a new layer
Colorize according to your colors
Image / Add borders / symmetric marked / 2px / white or as you prefer
Put your signature
Merge All
Save as jpeg

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Tutorial traduzido em

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