This tutorial and poem are written by me in loving memory of my
father who suddenly passed away on June 23rd 2006

Once you stood tall and strong like a tree,
but suddenly you broke and you left me.
Never will you be by my side again and
protect me like you did then.

I love you sweet daddy and
I will miss you every day, but you will be in
my heart forever until the day that I will pass away.

Poem written by me on August 20th 2006

This tutorial was written in PsP X, but can also be made in PsP 9.
This tutorial is for the advanced PsP user.

Needed:

* A beautiful misted tube.
   My tube is in the zip file - Put this in a folder of your choice.
* My brushes - Put these in your PsP X Brushes folder.
If you are using PsP 9 you may have to import the brushes.
My Selection - Put this in your PsP X Selections folder.
Texture - wp_mottled_133 - Put this in your PsP X Textures folder
* Filters Funhouse 2 - Get the filter here  and put it in your PsP X Filters folder

* supplies zip

Now that you have everything you need let's get started....

1. Open a new transparent image of  600 x 450 pixels.
2. Put your foreground to a dark color, I chose #403d26 and your background to a light color, I chose  #becec1.
Now make a Foreground/ Background gradient with the settings like below and flood fill your image with it.

3. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
4. Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur with these settings:

5. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
6. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
7. Selections - Select all
8. Selections - Modify - Contract by 25 pixels and flood fill the selections with our dark color.
9. Effects - Texture effects - Find the Texture wp_mottled_133 with these settings:

Leave our selection intact.

10. Layers - New raster layer.
11. Flood fill the selection with your light color.
12. Selections - Modify - Contract by 3 pixels.
13. Hit delete on your keyboard.
14. Selections - Invert.
15. Selections - Floating.
16. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel with these settings:

ATTENTION: I used my light color for the light settings so it may be nicer, when
you are using other colors to use your light color there.

17. Selections - Select nothing.
18. Open my MAS-Nature-Strength-CopyrightBritaSeifert tube and go to
Edit - Copy.
19. Edit - Paste as a new layer.
20. Effects - Filters - Funhouse 2 - Tunnel Tile with the standard settings.
ATTENTION: If you are using a different tube you may not get the effect I got so you
need to play with the different settings.

21. Layers - Duplicate.
22. Image - Mirror.
23. Image - Flip.
24. Layers - Merge - Merge down.
25. Put the blend mode on this layer to Soft Light .
ATTENTION: If you use different colors you have to play around with the blend modes.

26. Effects - Image Effects - Offset with these settings:

27. Again open the MAS-Nature-Strength-CopyrightBritaSeifert tube and go to
Image - Resize wit these settings:

28. Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp Mask with these settings:

29. Edit - Copy.
30. Edit - Paste as a new layer.
31. Move the tube slightly to the left. (see screen)

32. Layers - New raster layer
33. Selections - Selections load/ save - Load from disk and find the
MAS-Unforg-1 selection and use these settings:

34. Flood fill the selection with your light color.
35. Selections - Modify - Contract by 2 pixels.
36. Hit delete on your keyboard.
37. Selections - Invert.
38. Selections - Floating.
39. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel with the same settings as in step 16.
40. Selections - Select nothing.
41. Use your magic wand with the settings like below and click inside the little frame
that we just made.

42. Layers - New raster layer.
43. Open the Stairway to the Sky image.
44. Edit - Copy.
45. Edit - Paste into selection.
46. Selections - Select nothing.
47. Put the opacity of the layer to 35.
48. Layers - New raster layer.
49. Open the brush MAS-Unforgettable-1 and place this, using your light color,
at the bottom of the tag. (see screen)

50. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow with these settings:

51. Put the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light
ATTENTION: If you use different colors you have to play around with the blend modes.

52. Layers - New raster layer
53. Open teh MAS-Unforgettable-2 brush and put this, using your dark color,
in the upper left corner. (see screen)

54. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow using the same settings as in step 50, but
change the color to white.
55. Put the opacity to 70 on this layer.
56. Layers - New raster layer.
57. Open the last brush MAS-Unforgettable-3 and place it , using your light color,
in the little frame just above the stairs. (see screen)

58. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel with these settings:

59. Effects - 3D Effects -Drop shadow with these settings:

60. Layers- Merge - Merge all (flatten).
61. Image - Add borders - 3 pixels use your light color.
62. Click in the border with your magic wand using these settings.

63. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel using the same settings as in step 16.
64. Selections - Invert.
65. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout with these settings:

66. Leave your selection intact and again go to Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout,
but put horizontal and vertical to -1 and the rest stays the same.
67. Selections - Select nothing.
68. Image - Add borders - 1 pixel using your dark color.
69. Image - Add borders - 3 pixels using your light color.
70. Click in the border with your magic wand again using these settings.

71. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel using the same settings as in step 16..
72. Image - Add borders - 1 pixel using your dark color..

If you want you can put your name on it, but that is something I will leave up to you.

The tutorial is finished...so put your watermark on it, resize to your liking and
save as .jpg

Go here to see more results

I hope that you enjoyed the tutorial...let me know how you liked it by leaving me a
message in my Guestbook...

Hugs,

AngelFace