Chequered

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Misticheskaya

you can purchase from PicsForDesign 

I used 4 different tubes from the same artist

Some sparkles (emo kits are a good place to find sparkles)

Penta.com, Jeans

Checkered Tile HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on May 31st 2015

written in psp9 but any version should work

any resemblance to other works in entirely conincidental

Open checkered tile

floodfill tool set to pattern, choose the checkered tile, angle 0, scale 100

Open blank canvas 700 x 200

Custom selection tool

top & left 0, right 160, bottom 200

floodfill the selection

deselect

duplicate

image, mirror

Merge down

Magic wand, feather 0, click between the checkered parts

new raster layer, floodfill with dark grey

expand the selection by 3, 

new raster layer, floodfill black
deselect
drag black layer below grey layer

preset shape tool, rectangle, foreground color white, line width 9

hold down the shift key while drawing out a small square, convert to raster

duplicate x 3 for a total of 4 frames

On each one in turn

Magic wand, click inside, expand by 3, 

new raster layer, floodfill with black/white gradient, repeats 0 angle 45

drag this layer below your frame,

copy & paste tube 1 as new layer, resize as necessary, selections invert, hit delete

deselect

duplicate tube layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur 3, change blend mode to hard light

on original tube layer, change blend mode to luminance (l)

dropshadow the frame 2,5,50,8,black

merge frame, both tube layers and gradient layer together

hide this frame

(dont worry we are going to move them into place in a minute!!)

Repeat for each of the remaining 3 frames using different tubes

rename each frame layer 1,2,3,4

frame 1 - rotate, left 10, position top left, drag down to just above checkered layer

so it pokes out from under the black layer

frame 2 - rotate, right 8, position bottom left, leave it above the grey layer

frame 3 - rotate, right 12, position top right, leave it above the grey layer

frame 4 - rotate, left 7, position bottom right, drag down to just above checkered layer

so it pokes out from under the black layer

make grey layer active

penta.com, jeans, default settings

select all, float, defloat, invert

copy and paste one of your tubes again

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect,
change blend mode to luminance (l) 

duplicate tube, adjust, blur, gaussian blur 3

change blend mode to hard light

add dropshadow to bottom tube layer lower opacity to 70

Adding some sparkles between the two tube layers looks quite effective if you like

Add name and copyright information

Merge all flatten

new raster layer

floodfill with white,

select all, contract by 3, hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

add noise, 100, gaussian, monochrome checked

merge all flatten

save as jpg

For the Avatar

Make a square selection on a part of the banner that you like

copy

paste as new image

add border as we did for the banner

add name and cr

merge all

save as jpg