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This tutorial was written by me on 15 August 2010 and updated on
29 September 2022. Any similarity to other tutorials is not intentional.

Supplies:

Tube and close up of choice - I used a gorgeous tube by Alec Rud. If you want to use the same tube you can purchase it from PFD HERE

Scrapkit - I used the gorgeous It's Fall Yall by Bella Caribena, which you can purchase HERE. Thanks Bella!

Filters - Fantastic Machines, Penta VTR2

Font - Find Lovers

Let's start!

Open a new canvas 600 x 250. Flood fill your canvas with a gradient to match your tube. Effects, Fantastic Machines, Paint Engine, with these settings:



Copy and paste a frame. Click inside your frame, selections, modify expand by 5, copy & paste paper 9, selections, invert delete. Place your paper layer under the frame layer. Image rotate free rotate left 50 on both the frame and paper layers. Using the layer link toggle, change both these layers to 1 so that they move together.



Move towards the top right of your tag, see mine for placement.

Arrange something like this



Click inside your frame, selections, modify by 5, copy and paste your close up. Selections invert delete. Change the blend mode to Luminance (L). Crop. Effects penta VTR2. Drop shadow tube and frame layers.

Close your background and close up tube layers. Duplicate the paper and frame layers, mirror and flip both layers. Close your original paper and frame layers and merge the copies. Open all your layers and arrange to your liking.

Copy and paste your main tube. Duplicate. On the duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur, 3 then change the blend mode to soft light. On the original, effects Xero Porcelain, drop shadow.

New Raster layer, fill with the gradient you used earlier. Selections select all selections modify contract by 5, delete. Select none. Effects Screenworks screen array. Drop shadow.

Copy and paste element 10, re-size 25% place under the frame you created, see my tag for placement.

To make the avatar, open a new canvas 120 x 180. On your banner, copy merge and paste onto your blank AV. Re-size 80%, image mirror. Place where it looks best and crop your tag. New Raster layer, fill with your gradient. Selections select all selections modify contract by 3, delete. Select none. Drop shadow.

Add some sparkles to Banner and AV!!

Add your name and copyright to both tag and Av, and you're finished!

This is the original sample banner and AV.




Here is another sample created by my good friend Beverly, thank you so much!