This tutorial is written in PsP 9.

Needed:

* A nice tube.
My tube is in the zip and put it in a folder of your choice.
* Fonts: Stop - Put this in your Fonts folder.
* Mask - geobordered_vivarant and put this in your PsP 9 Masks folder.
* My selections - and put this in your PsP 9 Selections folder.
* Texture Aarde (Earth) - Should be standard in your PsP 9 but if not I have put in the
zip - place it in your PsP 9 Texture folder.

* supplies zip

Now that we have everything let's start...

1. Open a new transparent image of 550 x 350 pixels.
2. Fill this image with black.
3. Layers - New raster layer.
4. Selections - Load from Disk and find the MAS-SuperModelSquare selection and
use the following settings:

5. Fill this selection with a color of your choice.
I used #c63032.
6. Leave your selection intact and go to Effects - Texture effects - Texture
and use these settings:
ATTENTION: if you used a different color to fill your selection with, you may have
to adjust the color in the Texture settings !!

7. Selections - Select nothing.
8. Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with the following settings:

9. Layers - Duplicate
10. Image - Mirror
11. Image - Flip
12. Layers - New raster layer
13. Selections - Load from Disk - MAS-SuperModelStripes with the same settings as in step 4.
14. Fill the selection with black.
15. Selections - Select nothing.
16. Effects - Distortion effects - Twirl with these settings:

17. Effects - Image effect - Seamless tiling with these settings:

18. Put the opacity on this layer on 50.
19.Open your MAS-SuperModel tube and go to Image - Resize
and use the following settings:

20. Go to Adjust - Sharpen - Unsharp Mask with these settings:

21. Edit - Copy
22. Edit - Paste as a new layer on your tag and move it to the left. (see screen)

23. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with the following settings:

24. Repeat the drop shadow, but now with Vertical on 2 and Horizontal on -2.
25. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible.
26. Layers - New raster layer.
27.Selections- Load from Disk - MAS-SuperModelSingle with the same settings as before.
28. Fill the selection with black.
29. Selections - Select nothing.
30. Layer - Load/ Save Mask- Load from Disk with these settings:

31. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
32. Image - Rotate - Clockwise
33. Activate your text tool and use these settings:

34. Put your foreground on white and lock your background color. Type the word Supermodel
and place it on the black masked rectangle on the right. (see screen)

35. Layers - Convert to raster layer
36. Image - Rotate - Counter clockwise
37. Again activate your text tool and leave the settings as they are.
ATTENTION : you can always play with the text size because it may look
prettier to use larger letters with a shorter name.

38.Image - Free Rotate and rotate your name 35 degrees right and the put your
name on a spot that you like.
39. Layers - Convert to raster layer
40. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

41. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).
42. Image - Add borders 2 pixels black symmetric.
43. Image - Add borders 5 pixels symmetric and I am using
#c63032 for the color.
44. Select this border with your magic wand and make sure that feather, tolerance
and anti-alias are set to 0.
45. Effects - Texture effects - Texture and use the same settings as in step 6.
46. Selections - Select nothing
47. Image - Add borders 2 pixels black symmetric.

And you are finished...Now add your watermark resize if you like and don't forget to
sharpen, then save it as a .jpg

Go here to see more results

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial....please let me know what you think of it by writing
something in my Guestbook...

Hugs,

AngelFace