This tutorial is written by me and it’s MH-Design©
Any other tutorial that looks similar is purely coincidental
and no infringement of any other artist is intended.

You are not allowed to share this tutorial in any groups, or put in on any website.

I did the tutorial in PSP9, but I’m sure it can be made in other versions as well.

This is what we are going to make:

You will need:

PSP

A tube

Super Blade Pro get it here

Preset to Super Blade Pro M_coconutice

Penta.com – VTR 2 get it here

Tube and preset here

A font of your own choice, I used Forte

Unzip the preset to your SuperBladePro environments and texture folder

Unzip the tube to at folder of your own choice

Ready? Okay let’s begin

Take this clip with you, so you can see where you are in the tutorial

Step 1.

Open your tube, copy and close the original

Step 2.

Open a new image 500 x 500 flood fill with white

Paste the tube as a new layer

If the tube is to big, then resize it to a proper size, use these settings:

Never ever resize at tube more that 85 % at the time!!

Step 3

Copy your tube layer, close the copy, and make the original layer active.

Adjust – Blur – Gausian Blur

Step 4

Adjust – ad noise

Step 5

Effects – Plugin – Penta.com – VTR 2 with these settings:

Step 6

Adjust – sharpen

Step 7

Move the heart down to the bottom of the image

Duplicate this layer

Image flip

Step 8

Make your top layer active

Image resize 85 %

Move the tube a bit down

Effects – 3D effects – Drop Shadow with these settings:

Merge visible

Step 8

New raster layer

Add some text on this layer, with a font of your liking, I used Forte and these settings:

Then I used Super Blade Pro and M_coconutice on my text.

Move the text to the center of the canvas.

Step 9

Merge visible

Image ad border

Image ad borders

3 pixels white

Image ad borders

3 pixels #ff9300

Step 10

Select the white border with your magic wand, with these settings

Flood fill the selection with # #f2e875

Adjust – add noise – same settings as before

Step 11

Selections – select all – Selections – Modify – Contract 9

Step 12

Effects – 3 D effects – Drop shadow, same settings as before

Repeat Drop shadow, but this time with - 2 in Vertical and Horizontal.

Export as a .JPG file

You are done, I hope you had fun with this tutorial :-)

© Margit Henriksen, marts 2008