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AMAZING MONSTER FORUM SET TUT

Supplies :-

Tube of Choice. I am using a tube from Danny Lee. You can purchase his tubes at SATC HERE

Filters :-

Mura Meisters Copies
Mura Meisters Pole Transform
Eyecandy 4 Gradient Glow
Xero Radiance (Optional)

Lets begin....
Open 600 x 250 canvas.
Open your tube and select 2 contrasting colours.
Gradient foreground/background Linear Angle 90 Repeats 2.
Flood fill your canvas.
New raster layer, select all.
C/P your tube into selection.
Deselect.
Mura Meisters Copies Wave (horizontal) default settings.
Art Media Effects, Brush strokes at the settings below.

Blend mode overlay.
C/P the large tube and position how you wish.
I resized mine 80% moved to the left and set the blend to soft light. Mirror and move how you wish.
Using your rectangle preset shape background colour only (I used white) make a long thin rectangle across your canvas (see my example).Objects, Align, Centre in Canvas. Convert to raster layer.
Write inside the white rectangle whatever you wish. For font I used FFF Urban size 8 in capital letters.
Merge the text with the rectangle. Crop to merged opaque (600 x 250)
Apply Mura Meisters Pole Transform as shown to the merged rectangle/text layer.

Drop shadow this layer H0, V0, O45, B10, colour black.
Change the blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L)
C/P your main tube and position or do as I did and paste the large tube and resize to your preference.
Duplicate your tube and apply Xero Radiance at default settings. Change the blend to soft light.
Drop shadow your tube H0, V0, O75, B10, colour black
Crop to merged opaque or crop to 600 x 250.
New raster layer at the top.
Select all and flood fill with white.
Selections, modify, contract by 3 and press delete.
Deselect.
On the border apply Eyecandy 4 Gradient Glow, Settings Neon Outline and change the Glow Width to 5.
Apply the same drop shadow as we did to our tube just change the blur to 5.
Add your name and copyright.
For my font I used Cure-Wild Mood Swing size 48
On to the avatar.
Duplicate (shift D) your banner and save the original as a png as well as a PSP file (so u can add other peoples names)
Delete the border, your name and the copyright.
Resize to Width 160 Height 150, resize all layers checked.
Crop to 150 x 150.
Add border like we did before and your initial.
Remember the copyright and save as a png.

Here is another example using a darker coloured tube.