Tea Friends

What you'll need:

A tube, taller as width
Filters: Mehdi Kaleidoscope 2.1
Mehdi Wavy lab
FM tile tools seamles tile
Download filters here

Let's get creative !!!!
  1. Open up your tube in PSP and resize to a hight of 450 pixels
  2. Choose a light and medium dark color from your tube
  3. Open up a new image 180x450 pixels, transparent Background
  4. Flood fill this new image with your light color
  5. Selections/ Select All
  6. Add a new raster layer and copy and paste your tube into this selection
  7. Deselect
  8. Effects/ Geometric effects/ Skew

  9. Adjust/ Blur/ Gaussian blur with a radius of 20
  10. Effects/ Plugins/ Mehdi/ Kaleidoscope 2.1

  11. Effects/ Plugins/ Mehdi/ Wavy lab 1.1

  12. Add a new Raster Layer
  13. Activate your selection tool and choose Costum Selection

  14. Flood fill your selection with your medium dark color
  15. Deselect
  16. Effects/ Reflection effects/ Kaleidoscope

  17. Effects/ Plugins/ Mehdi/ Kaleidoscope 2.1

  18. Change the blendmode of this layer to screen
  19. Apply the following drop shadow and change the opacity of the dropshadow layer to 60

  20. Merge Visible
  21. Effects/ Plugins/ FM tile tools/ Seamless tile,
    with the standard settings and Vertical checked
  22. Selections/ Select All
  23. Image/ Canvas size and change your width to 190, leave your hight at 450.
    Click on the left middle arrow for placement
  24. Selections/ Inverse
  25. Add a new Raster layer and flood fill the selection with your medium dark color
  26. Deselect and change the Blendmode of this layer to Screen
  27. Image/ Canvas size and use the same settings as in step 23, but change your width to 1200
  28. Apply the same drop shadow as in step 19
  29. Activate your Ratser Deform tool and pull at the top and bottom of your drop shadow
    to extend it and to get rid of any seams
  30. Add a new Raster Layer and move it to the bottom of your layer palet
  31. Flood fill with your light color
  32. Selections/ Select All
  33. Add a new Raster Layer
  34. Copy and paste your tube into the selection and Deselect
  35. Adjust/ Blur/ Gaussian Blur with a radius of 20
  36. Effects/ Plugins / Mehdi/ Wavy lab 1.1 with the same settings as in step 11
  37. Change the opacity of this layer to 40
  38. Layers/ Merge/ Merge down
  39. Effects/ Plugins/ FM tile tools/ Seamles tile and use the same settings as in step 21
  40. Copy and paste your tube as a new Layer and resize with 90-95 %, uncheck resize all Layers
  41. Layers/ Arrange/ Bring to top
  42. Apply the same drop shadow as before but uncheck shadow on new layer
  43. Move your tube to the left
  44. Add your watermark or name to your image and save it as JPG
And you are Done!!!
I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial!!


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