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Open your tube in PSP
Resize if necessary to no more than 300 wide.
With your Eyedropper tool
,
pick a light color from your tube.
Window/Duplicate. Close the original Shrink it to your clipboard.
Select a gradient that compliments your tube or make one from two colors in your tube.
Make a New Image, 200 X 200 pixels.
with
your lighter color.
Add New Raster Layer.
On this new layer, Make a selection with your selections tool
down the center of your image. Select at 95/105 pixels.
Flood Fill
with
your gradient.
*Note: Make sure the lightest color is towards the inside as opposed
to the outside of your gradient.
This is optional, but it makes a little nicer effect.
Set the angel at 145, with no repeats.
While selected, Edit/Copy
Add a new Raster Layer
Paste as a New Selection, at the left side of your image,
place between the 15 and 20 Pixel markers.
Select/Select none
Layers/Duplicate
Image/Mirror
This is a crucial step:
On the "eye" in your Layers Pallet, close the solid background image.
Merge/Merge Visible
Uncheck the closed eye.
Your background layer should be showing again with the stripes on top.
Effects/Plugins/Simple/Diamonds
Layers/Duplicate Layer
Image/Mirror
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten.
Layers/Promote Background to Layer
At this point, with your background completed, you can resize to
make a larger
or smaller result..
With your Eyedropper tool
,
in your Materials Box, select your new pattern.
Shrink your new background image.
Activate your tube, Window/Duplicate and shrink the other image.
Layers/Add a new Raster Layer
Flood fill
this layer with your new Lattice patterned background..
Layers/arrange/send to bottom
Activate the tube layer and apply your drop shadow if desired.
Layers/Promote background to layer.
Image Add borders
Symmetric unchecked, Top=0, Bottom=0, Right=12, Left=12
With your Magic Wand tool
select your new borders and flood fill with your
gradient.
Selections/select none
Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten. Shrink this image.
Make a New Image, 1024 X Height of your tube.
Effects/Xero/Art Grain using the default settings of 127/30/127.
Activate your lattice side border image.
Edit/Copy
of your main background image.
Selections/Select none.
Selections/Modify/Contract 2
Image/Crop to selection
I have had some lattice images that line up perfectly in Letter Creator and others that just won't.
Add your watermark and assemble.
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