Noëlla's
Magic Man

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Materials needed:
A tube of your choice, or use this one: download here.

Filter Greg’s factory, Pool Shadow, download here.
Preset Shape Square and Triangle - standard in PSP
A Gold pattern.

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Let's begin :)

Open a new canvas 400 x 400
Choose a dark foreground color and

set the background color on your gold pattern,

with these settings:

Fill the canvas with the dark color.

Add a new Raster Layer.

Activate your Pen Tool, with these settings:

Go to the new raster layer and draw a line

from the top left to the bottom right corner of the canvas.
Go to Effects--> Image Effects--> Seamless Tiling,

with these settings:

Go to your Layers Palette and duplicate this layer.

Go to Image--> Mirror.

Go to Layers--> New Raster Layer.

Go to the Preset Shapes Tool--> Triangle,

with these settings:

Change your foreground to the gold pattern.

Draw a triangle in the center

of your image, as seen below:

Drag it so that it is right in the middle.

You can change the form of the triangle with

the deformation option to fit nicely.

Go to your Layers Palette and duplicate this layer.

Go to Image-->Mirror.

Duplicate--> Flip.

Duplicate-->Mirror.

Open your Layers Palette and find your bottom-left triangle.

Go to Effects--> Texture Effects--> Mosaic Antique,

with these settings:

Reply Ok on the pop-up question that the vector layer should be

converted into a raster layer before you can proceed.

Find the top-right triangle in your image in the Layers Palette.

Repeat the same Mosaic effect.

Activate your tube and paste it as a new layer onto the canvas.

Drag it to the left.

Go to Effects--> Distortion Effects-->Wind:

Windstrength:100 from Left.

Repeat the Effect.

Your tube is still in the memory.

Paste it again as new layer.

Position it where you want it.

Go to Effects--> Filter Effects-->Greg's Factory Output, Vol2-->

Pool Shadow, with these settings:

It all depends on the tube you have used.

Go to Layers--> Merge--> Merge All.

Go to Image--> Add a 2 pixel white symmetrical border.

Select it with your Magic Wand and fill with the gold pattern.

Add a 6 pixel border in your dark color.

Add a 2 pixel white border and fill with the gold pattern.

Add a 30 pixel border in your dark color.

Add a 2 pixel white border and fill with the gold pattern.

Reduce the image size to 350 pixels.

Add a new raster layer and apply your text or watermark.

So, this was the frame part of the tutorial.

Would you like to continue?

Let's do the background.

Open a new canvas size1024x400.

Fill it with your dark color.

Add a new raster layer.

Activate your Preset Shape Tool: Rectangle,

with these settings:

Draw three rectangles on your canvas.

It should not be perfect.

Go to Effects-->Image Effects--> Offset,

with these settings:

Go to Effects--> Image Effects-->Seamless Tiling,

with these settings:

Activate your tube.

Copy and Paste as new layer.

Position it where you want it.

Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge All.

I'm finished, and you? :-)

Good.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial!