Gerrie's orignal Dutch tutorial can be viewed here

Materials needed

Filters:L&K Site of Wonders/Trix
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Filters:FM Tile Tools BlendEmboss
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  Save this in your PSP Selections folder
 
Open a new transparent image of 1024x350
Fill it with a light color. I used #CDCFC4
I chose #BFA479 for the background color
But you can also use two complimentary colors
  
Layers / New raster layer
Fill it with the same color
Change the Blend Mode in the layers palette to "Overlay"
    


    
Add a new raster layer and set the color to a gradient with these settings:

Angle 45; Repeat 0; Invert Unchecked; Style Linear
    

    
Fill the layer with this gradient
  
Effects /Plugins/L&K wondersite/Trix
with these settings
    

    
Now go to your layer palette and change the settings of the layers to look like this

Make sure to activate the layer to change its settings -

it will be highlighted in blue;)
  
Layers / Merge / Merge All
  
Effects/ Plugins /FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss
  
Layers / New raster layer
Selections/ Load/Save selection / lLoad Selection from disk
Find the "backlest" selection 
  
Open the tube you want to use in the selection
Choose a color with your dropper tool from it

Click on the color with your mouse pointer to view the H (hue) and

S ( saturation) values  

  
Press Shift +L on your keyboard to open the Colorize-

option window and type the top two values into the

 "Hue" and "Saturation" options

Change the width of your tube to 355 
Or if you use a horizontal image change the height to 355
  
Edit / Copy
Activate your canvas and paste your image as a new layer.

Place the image with your Mover Tool in the selection where

you want it.

(image reduced)
    

    
Selections / Invert
Press DELETE on your keyboard once
  
Go to your Layers palette and change the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light

This will blend the image nicely into the background;)
Play with the Opacity settings on the Layers palette.

I changed mine to 60%

  
Selections / Select None (or Deselect Ctrl +D)
  
Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

Move it into place next to the first one. Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light as well.

Repeat this step to fill up the third space.  
Your Layer palette should look like this 

Raster 4 Opacity 60%  Blend Mode Soft light Raster 3 Opacity 60%  Blend Mode Soft Light Raster 2 Opacity 60%  Blend Mode Soft light Raster 1 Opacity 100% Blend Mode Normal

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Your background is finished

I wrote this tutorial by request and hope you enjoyed it too.

©Gerrie© 28-4-2004
  
      

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