You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Tube of choice.  I used Joel Adams, who is a CILM artist.  Please visit this talented artist here.
Xenofex2 - Little Fluffy Clouds
Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow (optional)
Dingbat - Patternalia
Font of choice.  Mine RumbaScript here
 

Okay, lets get started.  Open a new canvas 500 x 500, flood filled white.  Click your text tool, and select the installed Dingbat.  Choose your foreground colour as a dark colour from your tube, and your background a light colour.  Solid line set to stroke 3.  Type out the letter 'K', and stretch out to the desired size.  Centre it in the middle of your converse and convert to raster.

Take your selection tool, and select inside one of the circles, Selection/Modify/Expand by 3.  Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, and position the part you want to show in the circle.  Selection/Invert and hit delete on your keyboard.  If the part you have chosen shows the white background, you may want to colour this.  So invert your selection again, add a new layer, move it below the tube, and flood fill with a colour from your tube.  Select none.

Now you may want to a put a different part of your tube in each circle, I'm putting the same image.  So I've duplicated this layer and moved them under each circle.

Now colourise each image in the circles.  I've gone for pale colours, starting with a grey, then working round in colours close to my tube colour.  Mine looks like this:

Duplicate your Dingbat shape, and on the duplicated layer, take your selection wand and select inside the Dingbat shape.  Add the plugin Xenofex2/Little Fluffy Clouds with the following settings.

 Select none.  Move the original shape below everything except your white background.  Add a gaussian blur of 8.  On the top Dingbat add the following drop shadow.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.  Position where you would like it, duplicate it, and add the same blur to the bottom copy, adding the same drop shadow to the top copy.

Add your copyright and watermark.

Now lets add your text.  Reverse the colours so your dark colour is now your background and hide your foreground.  I'm using RumbaScript.  If you are using a thicker font you may want to keep your foreground colour in.  Rotate and position as you require.  If like me you used a thin font, add a gradient glow in the light colour, glow width at 3.  Add the same drop shadow.

Crop and save as a jpeg.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 15th November 2006 by Faerie Queen.