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Used with permission.

This tutorial is my own creation.
Any resemblence to another is purely co-incidental.
Please do not pull it apart and claim it as your own. Do not translate it or place it on another site without my written permission.
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Tools needed to complete this tutorial:-

Paint Shop Pro V8

20/20

A tube of your choice.

If you have everything you need, lets get started.

1. Open your tube of choice.

2. Using your dropper tool, select a light colour for the background and a dark colour for the foreground from your tube.

3. Change your foreground to gradient and chose the foreground/background gradient.

4. Open a new transparent image, 1024 x length of your tube, plus another 20 pixels.

5. Flood fill with your gradient.

6. Effects, Texture Effects, Weave and use the following settings:-
   • Gap Size:    2
     
   • Width:    65
     
   • Opacity:     25
     
   • Weave color:    Black
     
   • Fill gaps:     UNchecked

7. Effects, Distortion, Warp and use the following settings:
   • Horizontal:    -52 (minus)
     
   • Vertical:     -45 (minus)
     
   • Size:    65
     
   • Strength:    -85 (minus)

8. Merge all flatten.

9. Save as a jpeg and open in 20/20

10. Image, seamless tile.

11. File, save.

12. Open up again in PSP.

13. Go back to your tube, edit, copy. You can close the tube off now.

14. Go back to your background, edit, paste as new layer.

15. Resize if necessary. Using your mover tool, drag the tube over to the left hand side of the background image.

16. Rename this layer tube 1. Tube 1 needs to be the top layer until we add the watermark layer.

17. Duplicate the tube 1 layer 4 times and name them accordingly.
    • Tube 1
      
    • Tube 2
      
    • Tube 3
      
    • Tube 4
      
    • Tube 5

18. Close tube 1, the top layer, by clicking on the eye.

19. With your mover tool, move all the other tube layers over a little towards the right.

20. Once you have all four moved away a little from their starting place, you can turn the top layer back on to see how they line up.

21. Any adjustments that need to be made, should be made now.

22. Working down the layers change the opacities as follow:--
    • Tube 1    100%
      
    • Tube 2    45%
      
    • Tube 3    40%
      
    • Tube 4    35%
      
    • Tube 5    30%

23. Make tube 1 the active layer.

24. Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow and use the following settings:-
    • Vertical:     2
      
    • Horizontal:    6
      
    • Opacity:     75
      
    • Blur:    14
      
    • Color:    Black
      
    • Shadow on new layer:    UNchecked

25. Add a new raster layer and add your watermark.

26. Layers, merge all, flatten.

27. File, export, JPEG optimizer.

28. Set compression value to around the 15 mark.

29. You are now ready to take it into Letter Creator. Don't forget to tile it.

    Letter Creator comes with a program called IncrediMail. You can download IncrediMail HERE.

        

    
    
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