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Open your tube in PSP.
Using your eyedropper
tool 
select
and save two or three colors from your tube. *Lighter colors give
more of an
icy effect in your final design.
Window/Duplicate your tube image twice.
Close the original and minimize the remaining images.
Open a new image 100X300. Flood fill
with
White.
With your Selection tool
, Make a selection
the length of your image,
about 25 pixels wide.
Layers/New Raster Layer.
Flood fill
with
one of your selected colors.
Selections/select none.
Layers/Duplicate.
Image/Mirror.
With your Magic Wand tool 
select
the stripe on the right
and flood fill
with
your second color.
Selections/select none.
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten.
Layers/Promote background layer.
In your Materials Box, Open the Pattern selection.
Find your stripe pattern and select it.
Make a new image, 1024 X 1600.
this
image with your new Pattern.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur -20
Effects/Plugins/Funhouse/Xaggerate
Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools-Blend Emboss using the default settings.
Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools-Blend Emboss again using the same settings.
Activate one of your minimized tube copies.
Image/Resize this tube larger, to approximately 600X400.
Edit/Copy
With your Mover tool
move
the tube to the upper part of your backgrond.
In your Layers Tool Box, reduce the opacity to 30%
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten.
Reactivate your remaining tube image.
*Reduce the size if needed so that it is not more than 350 wide.
Edit/Paste as a new selection and move it to the upper left corner.
While still selected, Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow.
Selections/Select none.
File/Export/JPG Optimizer set with Compression at 30%.
Save and assemble in Letter Creator.
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