Its a Dogs Life!

Supplies needed:

tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Laguna

which can be purchased from Pics For Design

Supplies HERE

Filters : Muras Meister - Copies

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 1st May 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open supplies and place selection file in your selections folder

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

choose a colour from your tube 

set as foreground colour, background to null

preset shapes tool, circle, width 25, create as vector

draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas

Objects, align, center in canvas

convert to raster

duplicate this circle twice

position one to the left and down slightly

and the other to the right and down slightly

drag both under the to circle in the layer palette

now make the top circle active

magic wand, feather 0

click inside the circle 

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with gradient of choice (something that matches your tag)

drag this layer below the circle layer

deselect

text tool - visitor TT2 font, size 14, anti alias off, colour black

type out your phrase, I used "its a dogs life!"

convert to raster

muras meister, copies, tiling angle, default settings but change tile gap to 3

on your gradient layer, 

select all, float, defloat, invert

hit delete on your text layer

deselect

On left circle, magic wand, click inside the circle

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with colour of choice

copy and paste your tube as new layer

position and resize as necessary

selections invert

hit delete on your keyboard

drag colour layer and tube layer below the left circle

change blend mode on tube layer to luminance (legacy)

repeat for the right circle but use a different colour to floodfill

and resize tube to a different size

dropshadow all 3 circle layers 2,5,50,8, black

hide white background and merge visible

New raster layer

Load/save selection from disk

Load Miz_filmstrip2 selection

floodfill with colour of choice (I used the same colour as my circles)

deselect

position at bottom of circles, 

rotate left 5

magic wand, Mode Add, feather 0, tolerance 10

click inside the first filmstrip frame

new raster layer, expand selection by 2

floodfill with gradient of choice

copy and paste tube, resize as necessary

position inside the selection to your liking

selections invert, delete

deselect

change blend mode to Difference

drag filmstrip layer to the top of your layer palette

repeat with the other 4 frames of the filmstrip

dropshadow filmstrip

hide white background & merged circles

merge filmstrip layers together

duplicate, image, mirror

unhide all other layers

copy and paste tube one last time

resize and position to fit

dropshadow

Add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible, save as png