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This tutorial is the exclusive creation of Julia. At the time she wrote this tutorial, she had a site but after checking, that site no longer exists. I do not have her email address anymore and cannot reach her but be assured that it was with her permission that I translated her tutorial.

To obtain a result similar to the one presented here, you will need the following tools:
a) a  png image or a tube that you like
b) a font that you like;
I used Sloop Script Three that you can download here

Plugin needed for this tutorial:  Toadies

Let's start!!

1
Open a new 800 x 800 image, transparent background

2
Open your tube, resize it if necessary.
Edit - Copy your tube as a new layer. Rename this layer "tube1".

3
Layers – Duplicate
Rename the duplicate layer "tube2" and make it invisible

4
Return to your “tube1” layer
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Plain Mosaic Blur with these settings:

5
With your Magic Wand (Tolerance and Progressivity at 0), select the grid cells (using the capitals key to add some cells if this is the case)
and delete with the scisors or your Delete key

6
In your Materials and Textures, Foreground with
one of PSP gold gradient - I used this one (Corel_06_017):

Flood fill the grid cells
Do not deselect

7
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow Vert 0, Hor 2, Opacity 70, Blur 4 with color black

Deselect and reduce the opacity of this layer to 75%

8
Activate the “tube2” layer and resize it to 75% (uncheck Resize all layers)
With the Move tool place on the bottom left side
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before

9
Highlight the bottom empty layer
Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
Rename this layer "text"
Select the Sloop Script Three font
(or another font of your choice) Size 160 - Mode Vector
(or a size that will suit you) Stroke Width at 1
Background with gold gradient and Foreground with a color from your image
Float and antialias checked
Enter your text, using the vector dots to size it as you like
and placing it using the Move tool
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings as before
Selections - Select none

10
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
Now, you can save this as a png image, a tube or you can add a color background and use this as an image that you can frame.

It is a fun tutorial that can serve many purposes!

I hope that you enjoyed making it and that it will be useful.
Once again, a big Thank you to Julia.

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