credits you can find below this page.

This tutorial is made in PSP X

Checkmate

Materials

The plug-in Texturizer HERE

The plug-in Toadies HERE

1 Open the tube and add a new raster layer.

2 Put your foreground-colour on Black and your background-colour on #9f0508

3 Make a gradient from these colours :

angle : 135

repeats 0

style Linear

Invert : markt.

4 Fill the new layer with this gradient.

5 Effects - plug-ins - texturizer whit these settings :

6 Layers - arrange - move down

7 Activate the layer with the tube

8 Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow with these settings:

9 Image - add borders - 2 pixels - black - symmetric

10 Image - add borders - 20 pixels - white - symmetric

11 Select the border whit the magic wand Tolerance and feather 0

12 Fill the border whit the gradient from point 3 only now no mark bij invert.

12 Effects - plug-ins - texturizer whit the same settings as point 5

14 Effects - 3D effects - inner bevel with these settings:

15 Selections - select none.

16 Image - add borders - 2 pixels - black - symmetric

17 Image - add borders - 40 pixels - white - symmetric

18 Select the border whit the magic wand Tolerance and feather 0.

19 Effects - plug-ins - Toadies - 3D Checkers with these settings:

20 Effects – Plug-ins – bordemania – Frame #2.

put border en frame width on 40 en Notch Corners markt.

21 Selections – Invert

22 Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow with these settings:

23 Selections – select none.

24  Image - add borders - 20 pixels - white - symmetric.

25 Select the border whit the magic wand Tolerance and feather 0.

26 Fill the white border whit the gradient from point 3 invert markt again.

27 Effects - plug-ins - texturizer whit the same settings as point 5

28 Effects - 3D effects - inner bevel with the same settings as point 14.

29 Image - add borders - 2 pixels - black - symmetric.

30 Put your background-colour on #9f0508 (when is right he stil is.)

31 Open your text-tool with these settings:

Font - Maiandra GD

Size 100 pixels

Making as Vector

32 Type the text and move them down.

33 Vector layer in your layer-pallette: convert to raster-layer

34 Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow with these settings:

35 Repeats this drop shadow

36 Layers - merge - merge all

37 Put now your water-mark on your creation.

38 And is nessecary resize.

VOILA………………….

@Josi   juli 2006

The tube whit the tiger is made by ..........................