Everybody Needs Somebody

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using Black Pearls tube from the delightful Zindy

you can purchase her tubes from her store Zindy Zone

Wordart of choice - I used THIS freebie from Escape From Reality

Font of choice - I used Century Gothic

Filters: 

Penta.com - jeans & VTR2

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient glow

Toadies - What are you

Xero - Radiance

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OK lets begin!!

Note:  c/p = copy and paste as new layer

d/s = dropshadow 2,5,50,8,black

Open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

preset shapes tool

rectangle, background colour a light one from your tube

draw out a long rectangle vertically in the middle of your canvas

convert to raster

duplicate

resize by 80

move to the left so there is a gap between the two rectangles

duplicate, image, mirror

duplicate

resize by 60 (do not move)

duplicate, image, mirror

now add a white gradient glow to each rectangle layer

make large rectangle active

select all, float, defloat, contract by 3, invert

c/p tube 

position to your liking and hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

make left medium rectangle active

select all, float, defloat, contract by 3, invert

c/p tube, resize by 80

hit delete, deselect

duplicate tube, image, mirror

layers, arrange, move up

make right small rectangle active

select all, float, defloat, contract by 3, invert

c/p tube

hit delete, deselect

duplicate tube, image, mirror, 

layers, arrange, move up

now go back and d/s all your rectangle layers

make first tube layer active (the main one)

effects, penta.com - jeans default settings

duplicate

effects, xero, radiance default settings

make left medium tube active

change blend mode to luminance legacy

effects, penta.com - vtr2

distance 49, width 1, contrast 169, ghost 0

repeat for right medium tube

choose your wordart 

c/p as new layer, position to your liking

select all, float, defloat, 

new raster layer

floodfill with a gradient made from two colours from your tube

new raster layer

expand selection by 1

floodfill with a dark colour from your tube

deselect

layers, arrange, move down

add a white gradient glow to the dark outline and d/s

delete original wordart layer

delete white background layer

merge visible

duplicate

effects, toadies, what are you

default settings

layers, arrange, move down

add your name and copyright

merge visible

crop and save as png

Thats it your done!!

Tutorial written by Mizteeque on 25th Jan 2015

Written in psp9 but any version should work

any similarity to other works is purely coincidental and unintentional