This tutorial was written by TeddyBear on 22 Dec., 2011. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I'm using the artwork of Kim Draper. Please do NOT use her work unless you have the proper license to do so. You can purchase her work and obtain a license from AIL

Mask - Vix_Mask308

This tutorial was written with the assumption that you have a basic working knowledge of PSP. I'm using PSP X2, but this can be done in any other version

Open a 600x600 transparent canvas and flood fill white

Open a new raster layer and flood fill with a med dark color from your tube and apply your mask, merge group, resize this layer by 70%

Using your rectangle preset shape tool, draw out a good sized box with your foreground color set to the blue and your background color set to nil line width set at 9, convert this to a raster layer

Using your magic wand click inside the square and expand by 3, copy and paste a close-up of your tube, invert and hit delete, add a drop shadow to your square and tube layers, lower the tube opacity to 40, merge down

Using a font of choice, type out the phrase "No one knows what it's like to be lonely like me behind these blue eyes, add a drop shadow

Copy and paste your regular tube, resize as needed, move towards the bottom of your square, add a drop shadow

Crop tag

Add artist info and license #

Add name

Done!!