You will need my tube and mask here or ones of your own similar

Open a new transparent canvas 500x 500

Flood fill with a gradient of your choice-settings for gradient as in screenshot

Effects-artistic effects-topography. Settings -Width 20-Density 8 -Angle 45 and colour Black

Click on the tube-adjust-hue and saturation to a colour to match your gradient background

Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto your canvas

Effects-artistic effects-enamel-default setting

Effects -distortion effects wind-default setting

Move the tube to the bottom right of the canvas and lower the opacity of the tube layer to 35%

Copy and paste the tube again as new layer and add a default drop shadow

Repeat the drop shadow but change the horizontal vertical settings to minus -10 this time

Arrange the tube layers as you wish and when you are happy-layers merge all and flatten

Image -resize 50%-adjust sharpness-sharpen

Image-canvas size-as screenshot

Add a new raster layer and flood fill with Black

Layer -New mask layer-from image. Source luminance checked. Look for the chrissilmask in the menu.

Layers-merge group

Image-add border-size 1 black

Image -add border-size 2 -colour of your choice

Image- add border-size 1 black

Add a new layer for your text and that's the tutorial finished.

I do hope that you enjoyed it

Written by Chrissie February 2006