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You will need:
Font of your choice
Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Jose Cano
License and Tubes now available at CanoTubes
My selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder
Filters:
Eye Candy 6/Gradient Glow
Mura's Meister/Copies
Ok let's begin
Open a New Image 600x250 and Flood Fill it White
Layers> New Raster Layer
Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial
Change you Foreground color to one from your Tube and your Background color to White
Flood Fill Selection with your Foreground Color
Selections> Select None
Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the following settings

Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the following settings
Click on the "Settings" tab and select the following
Simple (thin) - Black
Click on the "Basic" tab
change the Glow Radius to 2
and the Color to another color from your Tube
and click on ok
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Effects> Mura's Meister> Copies ... V-Tile(random h-line) ... change Shift X to 90
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down
Click on the Foreground Color and change it to Gradient ... with the following settings

Activate the White background layer ... Flood Fill this layer with your Gradient
Paste your Tube as a new layer
Layers>Arrange> Bring to Top (if not already at top in your palette)
Move your Tube to the Right side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow
Layers> Duplicate ... Image> Mirror
Drag this layer above the background layer in your layer palette
Change the layers Blend Mode to Luminance
Layers> Merge> Merge Down ... Layers> New Raster Layer
Layers> Arrange> Bring To Top
Make a Custom Selection ... with the following settings

Set your Foreground back to Color instead of Gradient
Flood Fill Selection with you Foreground color
Effects> Texture Effects> Weave ... with the same settings as before
Selections> Select None
Effects> Eye Candy 6> Gradient Glow ... with the same settings as before
Layers> Arrange > Move Down ... Hide the background layer ... Layers> Merge> Merge Visible
Unhide the background layer ... Crop image 600x250 ... Activate the Top layer
Selections> Select All
Selections> Modify> Select Selection Borders ... with the following settings

Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Activate the Bottom layer
Effects> AAA Frames> Foto Frame ... with the following settings

Activate the Top layer ... Add Copyrights and your Name
Layers> Merge> Merge Visible
Now all that's left is to save your image as a PNG
Here is another example by my friend Sezy

Tutorial written on 27/04/2011 ©David Hanslip