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Open a New Image in PSP - 575 pixels wide by 300 pixels high

Add a New Layer

Floodfill White

Open your Chosen Close Up/Face Tube

In your Materials Palette

Black in the Foreground Colour Box

White in the Background Colour Box

Go to Gradient - Linear

On Angle 0

Repeats 1

Invert Ticked

OK

So this should result in you having the Black part of the Gradient in the middle

Add a New Layer to the tag canvas

and floodfill with the Gradient

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur 20.00

Duplicate this layer

and on the top copy

Go to Filter Factory Gallery A - Triangular Mosaic Filter

Size 20

Mode 42

(These are the default settings)

Apply

Then

PSP Effects, Texture Effects, Weave

Gap Size 1

Width 4

Opacity 3

Weave and Gap Colour White

Tick Fill Gaps

OK

And change the Blend Mode in the Layers Palette to Soft Light

Add a New Layer

between the two Gradient Layers

and from your tube, use Dropper Tool to choose a colour

Put this colour in the Foreground (Top Colour) box

Go to your Brushes and find the soft brush of your choice

and on your New Layer which is between

the Gradients

and add the Brush in various places on the layer

This is a very subtle effect but adds slight colour to the background

Once you've applied, change the Blend Mode to Soft Light or similar

OK

Copy the Tube

and

Paste as a New Layer above the others

Move to the right of the canvas

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light or Overlay or similar

Duplicate

Move over to the Left of the canvas

Position as liked and erase blend any excess or straight edges if needed

Take your Preset Shape Tool

Look for Rectangle

Line Width 6.00 Solid Style

In your Foreground Box, choose your Gold or Silvery gradient

on the same settings as before

In the Background box, click it so it's null/nill/nothing

Draw out a Rectangle as mine

Convert to Raster and Place on the left

Click inside the Rectangle using Magic Wand

Selections, Modify, Expand by 4

Paste the tube again - resize if liked

Position within the Rectangle

Selections Invert

and hit Delete on the tube layer

Selections None

and Make sure the tube layer is under the Rectangle Frame

Crop to canvas size 575 x 300 to get rid of any excess tube outside the canvas

Use Crop Tool on Snap crop rectangle to: Merged Opaque

Now - using Preset Shape again

with same gradient but change the Angle to 45

See the long central black section created by the black and white original FG/BG gradient?

Use that as a guide, and draw out a very long rectangle

Go over the outside of the canvas on the right hand side

so you can adjust the lines and move the Rectangle back over

Once you've drawn it out

Convert to Raster

and Move the rectangle over the left more

so that only the horizontal lines of the rectangle show

then move the Rectangle down the Layer Palette under the main

tube layer and small rectangle

Again, crop to the canvas size as before

Now

Once more, see the outer line of the gradient as before

and draw the larger outline rectangle

and once drawn, move down the Layers

and crop to size

OK

Now open your chosen diamond to use

Copy and Paste and Place as a new Layer above the others

Now

Mura Meister Copies

on the Preset Line - default settings, OR you can add more numbers if you'd like

Once you've applied, delete or erase the diamonds you don't need

(See my tag for placement)

Duplicate

and move the other diamond line down the tag

Add a New Layer to the top of the Layer Palette

Selections, All

Selections Modify, Contract by 2

Floodfill with the metallic gradient

Selections None

Now then

Apply a subtle shadow to each of the metallic gradient shape layers

I used

0, 0, 35, 7.00 Black

Apply any wording that you'd like

I used a black fill for the font

Plain Font - Champagne and Limousines

Script Font - Carpenter

then

added the words

and then

Eye Candy 4000 Corona

(aHA!!! Not Gradient Glow lol!)

On the default settings, but drop the Glow Width to 5.00

and change the colour

to the one from your tube or a lighter shade of it

OK

Now, add your name in the metallic gradient

Kerning for the font on 100 if your name is short like mine

Stretch to fit

Convert to Raster

Apply a favourite font dropshadow

And add your artist info/copyright info

Now then, to animate (if liked)

Duplicate the tube main face tube layer twice to total 3 layer

on the bottom one

using Magic Wand

click sections of the tube - it doesn't have to be exact

just a smattering

OK

Once selected

Apply Xenofex 2 Constellation

on my settings as follows

(Important: Make sure you drop your Overdrive slider to match mine, we

want subtle shimmer, not mad sparkle this time lol!)

Apply

Apply this to the other 2 tube layers

Hit Random Seed a couple of times before

each application

Once it's applied to all three layers

Selections None

Now, animate the usual way for a 3 layered animation

change the Frame Properties to 15

Save as .GIF

All done :)

Hope you enjoy this tut xx