Lets get started. Put you mask into your mask folder.
Open a new canvas, 600 x 500, transparent.
Click print screen on your keyboard, then paste as a new image.
Crop around the canvas part of the image, and copy and paste this as a new
layer on your original canvas. This is going to be your
background. Flood fill your original background layer with
white.
Activate the checked layer, we are now going to colorize it. I want mine to be
darker, so I'm going to change the brightness. Go to
adjust/brightness/contrast, and set the brightness to -85 and
the contrast to 0, or whatever you would prefer. Then go to
colorize and change the colour to match your tube.
With the checked background active, go to Layer/ Load/Save
Mask/Load Mask from Disk, with these settings.
Merge group.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize as necessary
and position towards the top of you canvas. Add a drop
shadow of V - -1, H - 1, Opacity 50, Blur 5.
Now we are going to add your name. I'm going to use
Angel. Change your colours to the two coloured in your
checked background, stroke width to 0. Then change your
background to foreground-background gradient, with these
settings:
Write out your name, create as a vector layer, then stretch out
to the desired width and height. Leave some space at the
base for the next stage.
Add a gradient glow to your text as follows
Add the same drop shadow you added to your tube, then add the
gradient glow again, and then the drop shadow. Position
this below your tube, and move it up so that your tube is
resting on the top.
Merge your tube down to your text and duplicate the
layer. On the bottom merged layer, using your pick tool
(or deform tool on earlier psp's), drag the top node down below
the bottom node. Go to adjust/blur/gaussian blur = 2.
You may need to move it up a little so it sits right underneath
the text.
Before you add your copyright, you may want to resize your
tag. I'm resizing mine by 85%. Add your copyright
and save as a jpeg.
