This tutorial is by Silvana Gomes, whom I thank for letting me translate her tutorials.

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Original here

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Tubes

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Material

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Plugins
PSP effects only

SCRIPT

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Open the mask on the psp and minimize
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Choose two colors from your tube: a dark color for the foreground and a light color for the background

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Open a new transparent image with 800x650px
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Paint with the background color
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Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds - color: foreground

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Add new layer
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Paint with foreground color
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Layers / New mask Layer / From image / Mask [LF-Mask-81] - INVERT MARKED

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Merge Group
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Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance
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Drop Shadow of your choice
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Copy the character tube and paste as a new layer
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Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
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Drop shadow of your choice
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Image / Add borders / 3px / foreground color
Image / Add borders / 3px / background color
Image / Add borders / 3px / foreground color
Image / Add borders / 30px / background color
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Select this border 30px with Magic wand (tolerance/feather=0)

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Effects / Reflection Effects / Kaleidoscope - default

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Select none

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Image / Add borders / 3px / foreground color

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Place signatures

Merge all

Save as jpeg

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